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Trumpeter/hornist Jeff Stockham is well-known to Upstate New York jazz fans. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music and a veteran of the renowned Eastman Jazz Ensemble, his performance credits read like a Who's Who of the upstate music scene. He has performed with the Central New York Jazz Orchestra, Salt City Jazz Collective, JazzBone, the Stan Colella Orchestra, the Mario DeSantis Orchestra, Little Georgie & the Shufflin' Hungarians, Larry Arlotta, the Bearcat Jass Band, Joe Salzano & the Blue Devils, Atlas, Gap Mangione, Danny D'Imperio's Big Band Bloviation, the Syracuse Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and many others. As a charter member of the Central New York Jazz Orchestra, he has performed in concert with such jazz stars as Slide Hampton, Jimmy Heath, Clark Terry, Howard Johnson, Dennis DiBlasio, Allen Vizzuti, Bob Mintzer, Rob McConnell, Tony Monaco, Eddie Daniels, and Byron Stripling. He has backed up numerous national acts including Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra Jr., Rosemary Clooney, Aretha Franklin, Harry Connick Jr., Natalie Cole, Al Martino, Don Rickles, Jimmy Cavallo, Jerry Vale, Leslie Gore, Shari Lewis, and many others. He has also been a member of the orchestra for the national touring company of Les Miserables. He has toured Europe and Africa with Chicago blues guitarist Jimmy Johnson. Jeff is also one of the few musicians worldwide to play jazz on French horn. He is trumpeter and French hornist in Thelonius Monk Jr.'s "Monk on Monk" big band, with which he has toured Europe, Israel, and the United States several times, and with which he has had the opportunity to perform in concert with jazz luminaries such as Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Bobby Watson, Don Braden, Howard Johnson, Danilo Perez, Gerri Allen, Diane Reeves, Nnenna Frelon, Kevin Mahogany, Marcus Roberts, John Fedchock, and Joe Henderson. His current jazz sextet, The Jazz Police, is a Central New York all-star ensemble comprised of some of the top jazz musicians in the region. They have performed for nearly a decade in the Central New York region, including several appearances at the Syracuse JazzFest. Jeff is an avid collector of antique brass instruments, especially trumpets and cornets. This interest led him to form the Excelsior Cornet Band, which performs Civil War period music on original instruments of the era. |
