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Jeff Jarvis’s early career consisted of collaboration as a studio trumpeter with musicians like Lou Rawls, Melba Moore, The O’Jays, and many other artists. He has performed live with big names like Dizzy Gillespie, Lou Bellson, Joe Williams, Benny Golson, Jon Hendricks, Jimmy Heath, Joe Lovano, Henri Mancini, Slide Hampton, Kevin Mahogany, Grady Tate, Eddie Daniels, Rob McConnell, and Doc Severinsen. He is a contributing editor for The Instrumentalist, but he also often writes for other publications, including Flute Talk, Band & Orchestra Product News and Jazz Educators Journal. He is also frequently commissioned to compose for professional music groups, as well as school and military groups, and he has performed with the USAF Airmen of Note, Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Jazz Orchestra, US Army Jazz Ambassadors, Jazz Knights of the United States Military Academy Band at West Point, Riverside Jazz Orchestra, Oslo Big Band (Norway), US Army Blues, Frank Mantooth Jazz Orchestra, Denver Symphony Orchestra, USAF Shades of Blue, among many others. |