Michael Philip Mossman
Michael Philip Mossman ( born October 12, 1959 in Philadelphia ) is an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.
Life and work
Michael Mossman began his career in Anthony Braxton's Creative Orchestra, with whom he went on tour through Europe in 1978. then he worked with Roscoe Mitchell / Wadada Leo Smith ( 1979). In the 1980s he played in such different formations, as in John Lindberg Ensemble ( Trilogy Of Works For Eleven Instrumentalists ), in Franco Ambrosettis Tentett and Lionel Hampton ( 1984). The mid-1980s he became a member of the formation Out of the Blue and played briefly with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, also at Machito and Gerry Mulligan (1985); then Mossman was lead trumpet in Toshiko Akiyoshis Jazz Orchestra and was from 1989 to 1991 the band of Horace Silver at. 1989 to 1991 he took with The George Gruntz Concert Jazz on tape. In 1992, he played in Gerry Mulligan's Rebirth of the Cool band; He also went with Dizzy Gillespie's United Nation Orchestra and the Jazz Masters Slide Hampton Orchestra on tour. He also played in Latin jazz bands of Michel Camilo, Mario Bauza and Eddie Palmieri as well as Gil Evans, Pat Metheny, Benny Carter, Bob Mintzer, Al DiMeola, Joe Henderson, Renee Rosnes and Jimmy Heath.
Michael Mossman he had emerged with Daniel Schnyder co-leader of a band with the recordings for the label Red. In 1993 he led a recording session with Perico Sambeat. In 1994 he had a tape of David Sanchez, Kenny Drew Jr., James Genus and Marvin Smitty Smith, with whom he Album Spring Dance grossed Claves. In 2001 he took on The Orisha Suite, contributors were, inter alia, Paquito D Rivera, Ray Barretto and Carlos ' Patato ' Valdez. The end of 2012 his arrangement of the Afro - Cuban Jazz Suite for Ellington (for the Bobby Sanabria Big Band ) for the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement in the category was nominated.
Mossman was, inter alia, at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio, at Rutgers University, the New School for Social Research and the New Jersey Summer Arts Institute operates. Currently, Michael Mossman, Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in New York City.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Granules ( Red, 1990)
- Uptown dance ( EGT, 1993)
- Spring Dance ( claves, 1995)