Jumaane Smith Quintet

Name: Jumaane Smith Quintet
Start: 2024-09-16T19:30:00-07:00
Location: 2033 6th Ave, Seattle, WA, United States, Washington 98121

Schedule

Mon Sep 16 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

2033 6th Ave, Seattle, WA, United States, Washington 98121 | Seattle, WA

Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley welcomes the debut of acclaimed vocalist, trumpeter and composer Jumaane Smith for two nights. Band members are Jumaane Smith (trumpet/vocals), Will Gorman (B3 organ), Carmen Intorre Jr (drums), Ben Flocks (tenor sax) and TBA (guitar). Show times Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm each night.
ARTIST INFO
Jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and composer Jumaane Smith has performed on 5 Gtammy Award- winning records (selling more than 60 million copies), 2 Emmy Award-nominated TV performances, the Grammy Awards with Stevie Wonder, in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story (trumpet solo actor), at The White House, on the Today Show, Tonight Show, Oprah, Good Morning America, and American Idol.
Jumaane has spent the last 17 years touring and recording with Michael Bublé as lead trumpeter and vocalist, was a member of Harry Connick Jr.’s house band for the syndicated daytime TV show Harry, and the featured guest soloist for Jackie Evancho’s, Songs of the Silver Screen world tour backed by a 60-piece symphony orchestra.
Smith has worked with a variety of musical legends including Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Christian McBride, Barbra Streisand, and more. As a full scholarship recipient at the Juilliard School of Music’s Jazz Studies program (2001-2005), Wynton Marsalis was Smith’s primary trumpet teacher.
Jumaane has toured with his own band to such world-class venues as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Vail Jazz Festival, Java Jazz Festival, Loew’s Regency, North Star Festival, Joe's Pub, Rochester International Jazz Festival, Catalina Island Jazz Festival, and many more.
Jumaane Smith’s critically-acclaimed debut album, I Only Have Eyes For You features special guests Michael Bublé, Jackie Evancho, and Naturally 7. His sophomore album, When You’re Smiling, was released to much praise in January 2020.
As a composer, Smith has scored music for films such as Handsome Harry (starring Steve Buscemi and Jamey Sheridan) and the documentary Being in the World, as well as for his own recordings and the interactive sheet music company Tomplay.