Trumpeter Jay Phelps is at the forefront of the young and creative generation of jazz musicians in the UK, with an instantly recognizable warm and projecting tone. A Vancouver-born Canadian, Jay was tutored by the city's top jazz and classical trumpeters and distinguished himself early on as the youngest band-leader in the Vancouver International Jazz Festival's history.

Jay has performed and recorded with a veritable who's who of both UK and international jazz artists such as Nasheet Waits, Wynton Marsalis, Ray Brown, John Hendricks, Jamie Cullum, Sir John Dankworth, Dennis Rollins, Amy Winehouse, Charlotte Church, Hugh Masakela and Jazz Jamaica.

Still only 28, Jay is determined to educate the next generation of jazz musicians with a local project entitled Jazz Youth.

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