The Man With The Horn

LOOK . . .

Trumpeter/hornist Jeff Stockham is well-known to Upstate New York jazz fans. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music and a veteran of the renowned Eastman Jazz Ensemble, his performance credits read like a Who's Who of the upstate New York music scene. He has performed with the Central New York Jazz Orchestra, Salt City Jazz Collective, JazzBone, the Stan Colella Orchestra, the Mario DeSantis Orchestra, Little Georgie & the Shufflin' Hungarians, Larry Arlotta, the Bearcat Jass Band, Joe Salzano & the Blue Devils, Atlas, Gap Mangione, Danny D'Imperio's Big Band Bloviation, the Syracuse Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and many others.

Guest Artist with the Syracuse Symphony

As a charter member of the Central New York Jazz Orchestra, he has performed in concert with such jazz stars as Phil Woods, Slide Hampton, Jimmy Heath, Clark Terry, Howard Johnson, Dennis DiBlasio, Chris Vadala, Allen Vizzuti, Rufus Reid, Hubert Laws, Bob Mintzer, Marcus Printup, Wallace Roney, Joe Locke, Rob McConnell, Tony Monaco, Eddie Daniels, and Byron Stripling.

Hangin' backstage with Howard Johnson

On stage with Rufus Reid and the CNYJO Sextet

With Phil Woods after a CNYJO concert

Jeff, Bruce Forman, and Tony Monaco tearin' up the joint: Pearl's in
San Francisco

He has backed up numerous national acts including Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra Jr., Rosemary Clooney, Aretha Franklin, Josh Groban, Harry Connick Jr., Natalie Cole, Al Martino, Don Rickles, Jimmy Cavallo, Jerry Vale, Leslie Gore, Shari Lewis, and many others. He has also been a member of the orchestra for the national touring company of Les Miserables. He has toured Europe and Africa with Chicago blues guitarist Jimmy Johnson. He is currently a member of "Dreaming The Duke", a project blending jazz and classical treatments of the music of Duke Ellington, which features vocalists Nnenna Frelon and Harolyn Blackwell.

After a show with Al Vizzuti

Jeff is also one of the few musicians worldwide to play jazz on French horn. He is trumpeter and French hornist in Thelonius Monk Jr.'s "Monk on Monk" big band, with which he has toured Europe, Israel, and the United States several times, and with which he has had the opportunity to perform in concert with jazz luminaries such as Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Bobby Watson, Don Braden, Howard Johnson, Danilo Perez, Gerri Allen, Diane Reeves, Nnenna Frelon, Kevin Mahogany, Marcus Roberts, John Fedchock, and Joe Henderson.

With the newly formed "Dreaming The Duke" Ensemble, he is working with such world-class musicians as pianist Mike Garson, soprano Harolyn Blackwell, drummer Adonis Rose, saxophonist Virginia Mahew, trombonist Andrew Hunter, and violist Ron Lawrence.

Jeff is also a member of the 2010 edition of the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, one of the preeminent jazz ensembles in Europe, which recently performed at the KKL Concert Hall in Luzern, Switzerland. The personnel includes such celebrated musicians as Lew Soloff, Howard Johnson, Alexander Sipiagin, Dave Bargeron, Scott Robinson, Chris Hunter, Sal Giorgianni, and Luciano Biondini.

You never heard the French Horn like this!

His current jazz sextet, The Jazz Police, is a Central New York all-star ensemble comprised of some of the top jazz musicians in the region. They have performed for over a decade in the Central New York region, including several appearances at the Syracuse JazzFest. 

The Jazz Police enforcing the groove at Syracuse JazzFest, 2003

Jeff is an avid collector of antique brass instruments, especially trumpets and cornets. This interest led him to form the Excelsior Cornet Band, which performs Civil War period music on original instruments of the era.

LEARN . . .

Jeff holds the position of Instructor of Jazz Trumpet at Hamilton College, Lemoyne College, and Colgate University. He maintains a studio of private students, and is available for scholastic jazz clinics and concerts. Music students at area schools including Crane School of Music, Oswego High School, Mexico High School, Cazenovia High School, Skaneateles High School, West Genesee High School, Jamesville-Dewitt High School, Manlius-Pebble Hill School, and Onondaga Community College have benefited from his jazz clinics.  

LISTEN . . .

I Loves You Porgy from Then, Now, and Again, Central NY Jazz Orchestra

Man With A Horn from Jazz Passions, Jacque Tara Washington

All Bets Are Off from Stand On Your Head, Bill Carter

Autumn Leaves from Torched, Marcia Rutledge

Tadd from Potpourri, Al Hamme & the Swing Street Jazztet

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Jeff Stockham
P.O. Box 6733
Syracuse, NY 13217-6733
315-478-8731

Jeff Stockham performs on the following vintage instruments: 1959 Conn 38B Connstellation trumpet; 1959 Conn 10B Coprion Victor trumpet; 1957 Conn 10A Coprion Victor cornet; 1979 Olds "Clark Terry" flugelhorn; 1964 Mt. Vernon Bach Model 188 bass trumpet; 1958 Olds O-48 double french horn (custom-built for jazz horn legend John Graas); 1959 Olds O-49 5-valve single B-flat french horn.

Last update: June 24, 2010