For Jazz musician, composer, and trumpet player Russell Gunn, life would have been a lot different if his best friend Bruce Green had been interested in piano, or guitar. In fact, Gunn recalls that “when we were just starting music in fourth grade, at ten years old, I just wanted to play an instrument, I just wanted to play something. And initially, I was going to play the saxophone, because that was often the solos on records that you would hear on the radio…[But] my best friend, he wanted to play trumpet, and he asked me to play the trumpet with him, so that’s the only reason I started playing the trumpet.”

Columbia University Jazz Ensemble

Nov 30 - Dec 3, 2023

Columbia College Jazz Ensemble dir. by Scott Hall Trumpeter Russell Gunn

Columbia University Jazz Ensemble