![]() ![]() 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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