You’d be hard-pressed to find a jazz trumpet player and arranger with more impressive credentials than Michael Philip Mossman. His credits include a “who’s who” of the jazz world – Horace Silver, Joe Henderson, Gerry Mulligan, Slide Hampton, Jimmy Heath, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra and the Michael Camilo Big Band among many others. Mossman and his music will be featured by the Hartford Jazz Orchestra on July 17th, 2023.

Michael Philip Mossman has been active on the international scene since the age of 17, and has recorded with his own groups and with a virtual “who’s who” of the music industry.

Michael was nominated for a 2013 Grammy Award for “Best Instrumental Arrangement” for his “Afro-Latin Ellington Suite.” Michael has composed and arranged music for the films “Bossa Nova” and “Chico and Rita,” which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2012. His ballet “Beneath the Mask” was performed by Jon Faddis and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra with the Deeply Rooted Dance Company (choreographed by Mayte Vicens.) His ballet, La Cova do Rey Cintolo was premiered in 2010 in Mondoñedo, Spain.