Jason McCool studied as a trumpet player at the Eastman School of Music with teachers including Ralph Alessi, Martin Hodel, Christopher Moore and Chris Fensom, and at Brockton High School (MA) with Vincent Macrina. He has also taken various private lessons with Dave Ballou, Timothy Morrison (assistant princ. trumpet, Boston Symphony Orchestra; soloist for John Williams’ film scores), Charley Davis (top call LA studio player; lead trumpet for Buddy Rich & Woody Herman), Ulan Racie (performed on 4,000+ movie scores), Dean Laabs, John Allmark, & Dr. Robert Stibler (UNH).
His professional work as a trumpet player includes touring the US as a member of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, playing on a Royal Caribbean Cruise ship, and summer internships with the Walt Disney All-American College Marching Band (FL) and the Henry Mancini Institute (CA).
Jason also studied piano with teachers including George Colligan (NYC) and Art Lande (Boulder, CO), and voice with teachers including Adrian Angel (teacher to Bernadette Peters, NYC), Andre Solomon-Glover (NYC), and Regina Lucas (Boston, MA).
But he is most proud of the music he makes, however infrequently, with his brilliant musical friends!
Selected recordings of Jason's trumpet work:
Lonely Woman (O. Coleman), recorded with the Jason McCool Quartet at Franklin's Restaurant, Hyattsville, MD, Feb. 27, 2003
Quirk of Fate (B. Cunliffe), recorded at the Univ. of Maryland, College Park, 2002
Triste (A.C. Jobim), recorded with the "Planetarium Quartet" at Tufts University, April 21, 1999
Amazing Grace (for Columbine), recorded with the "Planetarium Quartet" at Tufts University, April 21, 1999
Bess, You Is My Woman Now (G. Gershwin, arr. Gil Evans), conducted by Maria Schneider at the Eastman School of Music, ca. 1998
Blame It On My Youth (Heyman/Levant), recorded with Anna Dagmar (Johnson), piano, at the Eastman School of Music, ca. 1998
There Will Never Be Another You (Warren/Gordon), recorded with Anna Dagmar (Johnson), piano, at the Eastman School of Music, ca. 1998