Sean Jones

Trumpeter and educator Sean Jones is a firebrand musician with a bent toward hard-swinging, yet still elegant post-bop. Jones first grabbed audiences in the 2000s on albums like Eternal Journey, Roots, and The Search Within before gaining wider acclaim with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Along with teaching at Oberlin Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, and the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, he has recorded with the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Dianne Reeves, Emmet Cohen, and Dr. Lonnie Smith, among many others. In 2014, he released the quartet album Im*...