The Shoreline Jazz Collective presents Trumpeter, Composer & Arranger Michael Philip Mossman

Guilford Parks and Recreation Department brings Shoreline Jazz Collective with special guest Michael  Philip Mossman to the Guilford  Town Green on Sunday, July 27, 6pm.  The concert is free and audience is encouraged to bring blankets, chairs and picnic dinners (no alcohol) and enjoy an evening of wonderful family fun on this historic green.  The concert will feature the SJC Community Big Band, SJC College Prep Big Band as well as the Shoreline Jazz Collective Big Band.  The latter is a group of dedicated professional musicians from the CT Shoreline, Massachusetts and New York City under the direction of James Antonucci.

Michael Philip Mossman 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. Mr. Mossman has conducted the Bilbao Symphonic Orchestra in Spain, and has composed and arranged scores for the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic, the Tri-Cities Symphony, Joe Henderson's Grammy winning Big Band album, the Carnegie Hall jazz Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, The Charles Mingus Orchestra, Tito Puente, Mario Bauza, Slide Hampton and the Jazz Masters Orchestra, and Paquito D'Rivera, to name a few.  Following stints as lead trumpeter with the Machito Orchestr, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Lionel Hampton Orchestra, Michael became the musical director of Blue Note Record's "young lion" group, Out of the Blue.  He has toured and recorded with Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Joe Henderson Jon Faddis, Benny Carter and the Count Basie Orchestra among others.

He is a conductor, composer and arranger and a Yamaha Artist and is currently Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in New York City.  Michael's music is publixhed by the Hal Leonard Corporation.