Jeff Jarvis has distinguished himself as a trumpeter, composer/arranger, jazz educator, and music publisher. He serves as Director of Jazz Studies at California State University Long Beach where he teaches jazz courses on arranging, improvisation, pedagogy, in addition to conducting the Concert Jazz Orchestra, winners of the 2007 Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival. Jeff frequently appears as an honors jazz band conductor, guest soloist, and clinician. He is the Music Director Emeritus of the Central New York Jazz Orchestra and is a former Vice-President of the International Association For Jazz Education. Jeff is part-owner of Kendor Music, the first educational music publisher to provide jazz charts written especially for students.

His solo recordings as a jazz trumpeter and composer have placed high on national air play charts and have won him critical acclaim. Jeff’s early career as a trumpeter/arranger for Philadelphia International Records producers Gamble and Huff encompasses over 100 albums for such names as Lou Rawls, Melba Moore, The Jacksons, The O’Jays and many more. Live performance credits include Dizzy Gillespie, Louie Bellson, Joe Williams, Earl Klugh, Gap Mangione, Frank Mantooth, Benny Golson, Jon Hendricks, Jimmy Heath, Joe Lovano, Henry Mancini, Slide Hampton, Kevin Mahogany, Grady Tate, Peter Nero, Chuck Mangione, Eddie Daniels, Rob McConnell, and Doc Severinsen.

Jeff is frequently commissioned to compose music for school, military and professional musical groups, along with serving as a contributing editor for The Instrumentalist, a contributor to GIA Publications' "Teaching Music Through Jazz Performance", and writing articles for music trade journals. Jarvis has co-authored The Jazz Educators Handbook with Doug Beach, a jazz piano book with Matt Harris entitled The Chord Voicing Handbook, and with Mike Carubia, Effective Etudes For Jazz Volumes 1 & 2, the new standard in jazz performance/audition solos.

A Yamaha trumpet artist, Jeff has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia and Indonesia. He has been featured with the USAF Airmen of Note, Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Jazz Orchestra, US Army Jazz Ambassadors, Jazz Knights of the United States Military Academy Band at West Point, Riverside Jazz Orchestra, Oslo Big Band (Norway), US Army Blues, Frank Mantooth Jazz Orchestra, Denver Symphony Orchestra, USAF Shades of Blue and more.

Jeff is currently free-lancing in Southern California, while maintaining a busy travel schedule as a guest soloist, conductor, and clinician.

Mr. Jarvis's appearance is made possible by a grant from Kendor Music, Inc.