WG at the Bistro 2008-Featuring Michael Philip Mossman

Ladies and gentlemen,

WGHS Jazz I and II will be playing at Jazz at the Bistro on Tuesday, January 8, 2008.

We will be featuring New York-based trumpeter and arranger MICHAEL PHILIP MOSSMAN. Trumpeter, arranger and composer Michael has been active on the international scene since the age of 17. Mr. Mossman has performed and recorded with his own groups and with bands led by a virtual who's who of the music industry. He currently is lead trumpeter with Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra.
Michael’s most recent solo album, the Orisha Suite on Pimienta, was nominated for a Latin Grammy.The album features Ray Barretto, Paquito D’Rivera, Patato Valdez and many others. Michael is also featured as lead trumpet and arranger on the Grammy nominated album, Un Noche Inolvidable by the Lincoln Center afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. as Earlier releases by Michael Mossman were Mama Soho, on the TCB label and Springdance, released on the Claves Jazz label. Both feature Michael’s much sought after work as composer/arranger in Afro-Cuban and Brazilian jazz. Michael currently publishes music with the Hal Leonard Corp., Three-two Music, Really Good Music, and his own Ryamos Music Co.

A National Merit Scholar, Michael graduated cum laude from Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory with degrees in Sociology/Anthropology as well as Orchestral Trumpet and Jazz composition. He studied with Vincent Cichowicz of the Chicago Symphony before moving to New York. Michael completed his Master's degree at Rutgers University and studied film scoring with Don Sebesky. Michael is also a graduate of Anthony Robbin's Mastery University.

Following stints as lead trumpet with the Machito Orchestra, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, Michael became the musical director of Blue Note Record's "young lion" group, Out of the Blue (OTB). He recorded four albums for Blue Note with this group before disbanding to join the Horace Silver Quintet.

In addition to Horace's group, Michael has toured and recorded with Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Joe Henderson, McKoy Tyner, Gerry Mulligan, Joe Zawinul, Slide Hampton, Toshiko Akiyoshi, George Gruntz, Bob Mintzer, Steve Turre, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Tom Pierson, The Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra, the Charles Mingus Orchestra, Benny Carter, the Gil Evans Orchestra, and the Count Basie Orchestra.

Michael has also been a key performer in Latin Jazz since his days with Machito. Michael has performed and recorded with Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Chico O'Farrill, Ray Barretto, Daniel Ponce, Israel "Cachao" Lopez, Paquito D'Rivera, Bebo Valdez and Michel Camilo (including a screen appearance in the motion picture "Two Much"). Michael is featured in the highly acclaimed documentary on contemporary Latin Jazz “Calle 54” as both performer and commentator. Michael served as staff arranger and trumpet soloist for the legendary innovator of salsa, Mario Bauza and his Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra. Michael has composed and arranged scores for Joe Henderson’s Grammy winning Big Band album, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, The Charles Mingus Orchestra,Tito Puente, Mario Bauza, Slide Hampton and the Jazz Masters Orchestra, Paquito D'Rivera and the United Nation Orchestra, the UMO Orchestra of Finland, the NDR Big Band of Hamburg, Germany, the WDR of Cologne, Germany, the Danish Radio Big Band, the Andalucia Latin Jazz Big Band, the Heineken Jazz Festival Orchestra in Puerto Rico, the Granada Big band, Giovanni Hidalgo, and Ray Barretto's New World Spirit. Michael has also arranged music for the film Bossa Nova.

Michael has performed classical and contemporary classical pieces with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Naumburg Orchestra, the Jupiter Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Composer's Guild, the Garden State Chamber Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, the National Symphony of the Dominican Republic, and the contemporary classical ensemble "Secret Cosmos." Michael has recorded the Daniel Schnyder Trumpet Sonata on the Koch Schwann label and has recorded two solo classical albums for MM1.

Michael has been active in music education throughout his career. Michael has held positions on the faculties of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Rutgers University, The New School for Social Research, Bloomfield College, Manhattanville College, and the New Jersey Summer Arts Institute. Michael is currently Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in New York City.

Michael has given numerous clinics in music performance, composition, and music business in the United States and abroad. These have included the Oberlin Conservatory (3), the Eastman School of Music, Georgia State University, Moorhead State University, Duke University, Georgia Southwestern State U., Southwest Texas State U., the University of Central Florida(2), University of South Florida, Princeton University, Long Island University, for the Disney Corp., the 1999 and 2003 IAJE Conventions, the New Jersey Teen Arts Festivals, Long Island BOCES, and in Jazz Life Magazine of Tokyo, Japan.

Our performance at the Bistro will begin at 7PM, and tickets will be on sale at a later date via MetroTix.

Stay tuned!