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Jared Hall
Trumpeter, composer and educator Jared Hall hails from Spokane, Washington. He studied at Whitworth University, the Indiana University Jacobs School Of Music and the University Of Miami’s Frost School Of Music, where he received the degree Doctor of Musical Arts in 2015. His primary teachers include Terence Blanchard, Joey Tartell, Dan Keberle, Whit Sidener, David Baker and Brian Lynch, under whom he pursued his doctoral studies. Hall is the winner of the 2013 National Trumpet Competition – Jazz Division, and has performed and recorded with Paquito D’Rivera, Bob Hurst, John Daversa, Arturo Sandoval, Maria Schneider, Vincent Herring, Peter Erskine, Dave Liebman, Alan Pasqua, Brian Lynch, Ira Sullivan, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Terence Blanchard, Rick Margitza, Wycliffe Gordon, David Binney, Johnny Mathis, George Benson, Gloria Estefan, Fred Hersch, Shelly Berg, the South Florida Jazz Orchestra, and the Frost Concert Jazz Band.
Hall’s recording credits include his albums Seen on the Scene (Origin Records, 2021) and Hallways (Hollistic MusicWorks, 2017). Other recordings include Inventions (OA2 Records, 2021), Cheap Thrills: The Music of Rick Margitza (Summit, 2020), North By Freaking Northwest (Skymuse, 2019), Jazz & The Philharmonic (OKeh, 2014), With Love (Jeremy Fox, 2014), Inspiration: A Tribute to Nat King Cole (George Benson, 2013) and others.
Hall performed in Seattle from 2015 to 2022 with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, Symphony Tacoma, the 5th Avenue Theatre, and many of the region's outstanding ensembles. His quintet performed regularly at Tula’s Jazz Club, the 2018 Gene Harris Jazz Festival, 2019 Puget Sound Jazz Combo Festival, 2021 Bellevue Jazz Festival, and 2023 Leavenworth Jazz Festival. As a clinician, Hall has served many universities, high school programs and jazz festivals throughout the Pacific Northwest. He has presented lectures at the National Association of Music Educators (NAfME) Northwest Division Conference 2019, Washington Music Educators Association (WMEA) Conference 2022, and the Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference 2017. The Piano Grip System: An Approach to Learning Jazz Harmony, a book co-published by Hall and Whit Sidener in June 2020, has been welcomed as an essential guide to learning jazz harmony and theory for non-pianists.
In Fall 2022, Hall returned to his hometown of Spokane at Whitworth University as Director of Jazz Studies while performing in the local area with The Spokane Jazz Orchestra, The Bob Curnow Band, and his quartet. Hall has also served on the faculty at Northwest University, Pacific Lutheran University, and the Jazz Night School, as well as a teaching positions at The University of Miami and Indiana University.
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Jared Hall: Influences
by Paul Rauch
Jazz music has proliferated through generations traditionally by means of the oral tradition--meaning that knowledge is passed on by mentors, some by personal connection and others by more casual means. In modern times, this tradition lives alongside the jazz school phenomenon, where classrooms and studios incubate talent, while students inescapably still must pay their dues on the bandstand, playing with musicians that are more accomplished and more experienced. Trumpeter Jared Hall has for years straddled that fine line ...
Continue ReadingLeavenworth Jazz Festival 2023: A First Breath of Mountain Air
by Paul Rauch
Leavenworth Jazz Festival Leavenworth, WA May 5-7, 2023 The one-hundred-and-twenty-mile journey from the city of Seattle, to the village of Leavenworth, WA is one of perilous beauty and wonderment. Once arriving in the town of Monroe at the foot of the Cascade Mountains, Highway 2 east rises majestically over the Cascade summit at Stevens Pass, and descends sharply downhill for the remaining thirty five miles to Leavenworth. The town sits at the top of the Wenatchee ...
Continue ReadingPhil Parisot: Inventions
by Jack Bowers
Even at a time when jazz has broadened its horizons to encompass music from a wide variety of sources, it is not often that one happens upon a jazz album inspired by the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach. However, that is the premise animating drummer Phil Parisot's sunlit Inventions, an astute post-bop session wherein Bach's muse may be present but whose point of view, exemplified by Parisot's stylish compositions, is decidedly contemporary. The truth is, if ...
Continue ReadingJared Hall: Seen on the Scene
by Jack Bowers
Seen on the Scene, Seattle-based trumpeter Jared Hall's second album as a leader, has a lot going for it: tight-knit group unity and tasteful dynamics; bright, technically polished solos by all hands; and engaging tunes by Hall and the late bop master, Tadd Dameron. As a bonus, the acclaimed alto saxophonist Vincent Herring is “on the scene" to share the front line with Hall, elevating the session whenever he assumes the spotlight. Hall's sound is crisp and ...
Continue ReadingJared Hall: Seen on the Scene
by Paul Rauch
In many ways the title Seen on the Scene encapsulates trumpeter Jared Hall's story leading up to the studio session in 2018 which resulted in this, his sophomore release. The native of Spokane, Washington, arrived in Seattle in 2015 after completing studies with mercurial trumpet ace Brian Lynch and, almost immediately, scored a residency at Tula's, the city's legendary jazz spot. Sporting new compositions and a new recording on Lynch's Hollistic MusicWorks label, Hall went about establishing himself on the ...
Continue ReadingJared Hall: Seen on the Scene
by Dan McClenaghan
With Seen On the Scene, his Origin Records debut, trumpeter Jared Hall offers up the sort of fresh bebop/post bop sounds found on the Blue Note Records label in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Horace Silver and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers seem to serve as touchstones, as does pianist / composer Tad Dameron, too. Hall's quintet—the familiar trumpet and sax and rhythm section line-up—takes on a pair of Dameron's classics: “Mating Call," and two versions of “If ...
Continue ReadingSouth Florida Jazz Orchestra: Cheap Thrills: The Music Of Rick Margitza
by Jack Bowers
In 2019, the acclaimed Michigan-bred, Paris-based tenor saxophonist Rick Margitza thought he was being asked to contribute a couple of charts to the University of South Florida Jazz Orchestra's fifth recording in its fifteen-year history as a working ensemble. But when SFJO founder and leader Chuck Bergeron looked at the charts he had an even better idea, and asked Margitza to write and / or arrange everything on the album, which thus became Cheap Thrills: The Music of Rick Margitza. ...
Continue Reading"...Hall's expressive, probing trumpet style, offers a masterful, wide ranging sound, and varied emotional landscape." PAUL RAUCH, All About Jazz
"Hall employs a pleasant palette of sounds, blended smoothly, balanced by sharp intellect and refined craft." STEVE GRIGGS, Earshot Jazz
"...adding another potent voice on trumpet to the growing Seattle jazz scene." ABE BEESON, 88.5FM KNKX
"Stylistically Hall continues in the modern mainstream hard-bop traditions. He himself plays very expressively, with great emotional power." LEONID AUSKERN, Jazz Square
Primary Instrument
Trumpet
Location
Seattle
Willing to teach
Advanced only
Clinic/Workshop Information
Hall is available for private study in Spokane, Washington (and via online ZOOM Lessons), clinics, and workshops specializing in: Trumpet, Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Piano, Jazz Theory, Composition and Arranging.
Hall has studied with the most prominent figures in the trumpet and jazz idioms including Brian Lynch and Terence Blanchard, as well as incredible educators and performers including Bill Adam, Joey Tartell, David Baker, Whit Sidener, Pat Harbison, Dan Keberle, and Brent Edstrom
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From the Ancestors
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Seen on the Scene
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