Giveton Gelin
Giveton Gelin
LetterOne RISING STARS Jazz Award Winner

Giveton Gelin

FEB 17-19 | The Next Wave

Feb 17, 2022
Joe Henderson Lab

PLEASE NOTE:
This page is an archive of a past production


Please visit our calendar for all upcoming SFJAZZ shows.

Calendar

Original show description below.

Beginning his burgeoning career as a committed, 10-year-old autodidact, the 22-year-old Bahamian trumpeter is making major waves on the New York scene, mentored by the great Eddie Henderson at Oberlin and now a well-seasoned veteran of work with Curtis Lundy, Harold Mabern, Winard Harper, Sullivan Fortner, Ben Wolfe, and Jon Batiste. He makes his SFJAZZ debut as a recipient of the LetterOne RISING STARS Jazz Award.

Gelin was a recognized young star at the Young Arts Foundation and the star-making Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program, and counts Wynton Marsalis, Nicholas Payton, Ralph Peterson, and the late Roy Hargrove among his many teachers and champions on and off the bandstand. No less an authority than Hargrove said of the young trumpeter, “He is one of the few players that I have heard that actually sings through the horn.”

Gelin has performed at Julliard with Wynton Marsalis and currently leads a gifted quintet that has headlined at New York’s Small’s jazz club and San Francisco’s Black Cat. In addition to his RISING STARS award, the trumpeter also won ASCAP’s 2020 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award. His full-length debut album, True Design, was released in 2020 and features fellow RISING STARS recipient Immanuel Wilkins on alto saxophone.

More

Gelin was a recognized young star at the Young Arts Foundation and the star-making Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program, and counts Wynton Marsalis, Nicholas Payton, Ralph Peterson, and the late Roy Hargrove among his many teachers and champions on and off the bandstand.

I really love Giveton’s sound and vocal quality that he has when he plays. He is one of the few players that I have heard that actually sings through the horn.

Roy Hargrove

I really love Giveton’s sound and vocal quality that he has when he plays. He is one of the few players that I have heard that actually sings through the horn.

Roy Hargrove

Watch & Listen

Giveton Gelin

Inner Perception

Giveton Gelin

True Design

Giveton Gelin

Inner Perception

Giveton Gelin

True Design

We use cookies on our site to improve your experience. To find out more, view Your Privacy Choices and Terms of Use for more details.