Jeff Stockham's Authentic Jazz
Syracuse, New York trumpeter Jeff Stockham delivers bold tones, bright as a blaze, round as a bell, and as incisive as a well-sharpened blade. Whether blowing a cornet, valve trombone, flugelhorn, trumpet, or French horn, his phrasing remains ever-tasteful thanks to his excellent ear and exquisite embouchure. Trained at Rochester’s prestigious Eastman School of Music, Stockham’s an astute chart-reader and an agile improvisor.
Stockham’s also a marvelous musicologist. Each of those varied talents will come into play from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, October 6, when he brings his 11-piece Stock Market Swing Orchestra to the Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Road, in Morristown, New Jersey; morrismuseum.org; 973-971-3700.
The orchestra will entertain at the museum’s annual gala fundraiser playing original dance band arrangements from the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s. The gala celebrating “boisterous, beautiful brass” coincides with the opening of a three-month-long exhibition of historic instruments called “Trumpets: Weird and Wonderful,” from the Joe and Joella Utley Collection of the National Music Museum located in Vermillion, South Dakota.
Collecting Vintage Instruments
Stockham himself has amassed one of the most impressive private brass instrument collections in the Northeast. It includes several valuable pieces which he rarely takes o
