Jeffrey Lewis

Jeffrey Lewis
Jazz Trumpet; Jazz Combo; Latin Jazz Ensemble
408-924-4680
jeffrey.lewis@sjsu.edu
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Professor Jeff Lewis is a San Francisco based freelance trumpet player, clinician and educator. He received his BA from San José State in 1987 and has studied with Claude Gordon, Dave Burkhart, and Mark Inouye. He has performed with Ray Charles and the California Symphony and recorded with B.B. King on his Grammy winning "Duets" album.

He has also performed with Boz Skaggs, Kenny Loggins, Dianna Krall, Huey Lewis and the News, Kristen Chenoweth, Pete Escovedo, Maria Muldaur, Jon Faddis, Steve Turre, Cedar Walton, Martha Reeves, The Shirelles, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The O'Jays, the Coasters, the Drifters, and Joe Louis Walker.

Jeff has also performed with orchestras for a number of San Francisco Broadway musicals including "White Chistmas", "The Drowsy Chaperone", "South Pacific", and "Spamalot".