Michael Philip Mossman


Michael Philip Mossman is an American jazz trumpeter.

Career

Mossman's early career included a tour of Europe with Anthony Braxton in 1978 and tours with Roscoe Mitchell in the early 1980s. He also did session work in the 1980s, for Styx among others. He played with Lionel Hampton, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and Machito before joining the Blue Note Records ensemble Out of the Blue in 1985.
In 1986 he performed with the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, in the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, in the summer series.
Following this he worked with Toshiko Akiyoshi, Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan, Dizzy Gillespie, Slide Hampton, Michel Camilo, Bobby Sanabria, Mario Bauza, Eddie Palmieri, and the Philip Morris Superband.
In 2019, Mossman wrote the arrangements for pianist Michel Camilo on the album Essence which also features Michael as trumpet soloist. Mossman received a Grammy nomination in 2013 for Best Instrumental Arrangement for his "Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite for Ellington" recorded on Bobby Sanabria's double Grammy nominated album Multiverse. His work with Academy Award-winning director Fernando Trueba includes scoring music for the Academy Award nominated film Chico and Rita.
Mossman has been a guest performer, arranger, and conductor with radio orchestras in Germany. He has conducted the Bilbao Orkesta Sinfonica in Spain in a program of his own works. He arranged and conducted "Mambo Nights" with Arturo Sandoval and "Missa Afro-Cubana" with the WDR Bigband of Cologne and Spirits Dancing with David Sanborn with the HR Bigband of Frankfurt. "Latin Jazz Latino" with Joe Gallardo was recorded by the NDR Bigband of Hamburg and released by Skip Records. His ballet Beneath the Mask was performed at Harris Theater in Chicago by Jon Faddis and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble and the Deeply Rooted Dance Company in 2006. His arrangement of Faddis' "Teranga" was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra at Kimmel Center in 2006. His trumpet playing was featured on the Grammy nominated release Afro-Cuban Dream: Live & In Clave as well as his original composition and arrangement, "57th St. Mambo," on the Grammy nominated release, Big Band Urban Folktales, both with the Bobby Sanabria Big Band. His arrangement of Paquito D'Rivera's "I Remember Diz" was performed by the Louisiana Philharmonic in 2010. He has arranged for the Tri-City Symphony of Davenport, Iowa. His "Latin Tinge" was performed at Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., with Paquito D'Rivera and the Quartet Indigo string quartet in 2010.
Mossman is Director of Jazz Studies at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College/CUNY and is also on the faculty of the Juilliard School in New York City.

Discography

As leader

With Franco Ambrosetti
With Ray Barretto
  • My Summertime
  • Contact!
With Michel Camilo
With George Gruntz
With Jimmy Heath
With Bob Mintzer
  • Departure
  • Big Band Trane
  • Latin from Manhattan
  • Homage to Count Basie
  • Gently
  • Live at MCG
With Roscoe Mitchell
With Arturo O'Farrill
  • Una Noche Inolvidable
  • Song for Chico
With Tito Puente
With Bobby Sanabria
  • Afro-Cuban Dream...Live & in Clave!!!
  • Big Band Urban Folktales
With Daniel Schnyder
  • The City
  • Decoding the Message
  • Mythology
  • Nucleus
  • Tarantula
With others