Jamey Simmons
Mr. Jamey Simmons
Assistant Professor: Jazz Studies & Jazz Trumpet
Wisconsin native Jamey Simmons earned his bachelor of music and teaching certification
at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire and his Master of Music in Jazz and Contemporary Media at the Eastman School of Music
where he studied under jazz composer and arranger Fred Sturm. Simmons is an Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at Middle Tennessee State University.
As a jazz trumpet player, Simmons has toured with the Glenn Miller Orchestra across
the United States, South America, and Japan. He has made appearances with artists
as diversified as the Hornheads, the Temptations, Dave Weckl, Buddy DeFranco, Macy
Gray, New York Voices, Lee Konitz, and the Nashville Jazz Orchestra. In September
of 2003 Simmons won first prize at the Brussels Jazz Orchestra International Composition
Contest in Brussels, Belgium for his composition Lock Box. He has written arrangements
and compositions that have been performed by the Rochester Chamber Orchestra, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nashville Jazz Orchestra and the Bekchae Wind Band of Daejon Korea. His first
solo CD, Gold Refined in the Fire, features New York saxophonist Scott Robinson and
is available at www.jameysimmons.com/albums/gold-refined-fire.
Currently his published compositions and arrangements are available through Increase Music Publishers of St. Paul, MN, Heritage Jazz Works/ Lorenz Music, really good music.com and Kjos Music Publishing.
Simmons is currently Director of Jazz Studies at MTSU and enjoys spending time with
his wife P.J. and three children at his house on a farm near Wartrace, Tennessee.
Listen to Simmons and his work in streaming audio:
Three Places in Sound - composed and performed by Jamey Simmons
I. Summer Walk in the Gulch
II. Ripples on Wallace Lake
III. Big Cities
Lock Box - composed by Jamey Simmons, performed by the Middle Tennessee Jazz Orchestra
Slow Dance from Clarinet Dances - composed by Jamey Simmons, featuring Eddie Daniels, clarinet with the MTSU Wind Ensemble
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