Jerome Jennings is a drummer, activist, bandleader, sideman, and Emmy Award-winning composer. Jennings has performed, toured, and recorded with legendary musicians like Sonny Rollins, Hank Jones, Gerald Wilson, Christian McBride, Ron Carter, George Cables, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, The Count Basie Orchestra, Philip Bailey, Henry Butler, and countless others. He has also made recordings and shared the stage with contemporary musicians Sean Jones, Camille Thurman, Jazzmeia Horn, Tadataka Unno, Christian Sands, Charenee Wade, and Bokani Dyer, to name a few. He has composed music for and is the musical director for Maurice Chestnut’s dance production Beat’s Rhymes and Tap Shoes. In the summer of 2007, Jennings earned a Masters of Music from the prestigious Juilliard School in NYC. Jennings was the Resident Director of The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra from the fall 2017 to 2021. He is a professor of graduate jazz history at Montclair State University. Jennings keeps busy teaching, conducting clinics, and educational youth outreach, nationally and internationally. He is one of the most successful in Black American music education. Jennings has been an artist-in-residence and has lectured at dozens of Universities and Academy, nationally and internationally.
Comments