Pelt has perched dramatically near the top of the trumpet world for most of the twenty-tens, recording and touring constantly with an evolving rotation of players, currently featuring superlative pianist Victor Gould and the mesmerizing Jacquline Acevedo on percussion. It also helps to be a technical assassin on the trumpet, with a range of expression wider than Denzel’s Oscar-winning smile. Jeremy Pelt comes from a family of actors, so he understands fully the importance of stage presence as paramount to success. Of course Denzel Washington had to play Spike Lee’s trumpet protagonist in Mo’ Better Blues. ‘It’ is charisma, an must-have for this role. Something intangible lives in virtually every great trumpeter, from Louis Armstrong to Dizzy Gillespie, Lee Morgan to Wynton Marsalis and everyone in between and beyond.
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