Jazz Articles about Alan Gaumer

Two Trumpets Floored at the Deer Head Inn

by Gloria Krolak
May 30, 2015

The stage of the legendary Deer Head Inn in Delaware Water Gap, PA, straddles the dark brown barroom and the red dining room, dividing it smack in the middle. It's big enough for a quartet if one of them plays piano. On this night in late April, trumpeter Alan Gaumer invited Chris Persad, also a trumpeter, to join him, bassist Paul Rostock, and drummer Gary Rissmiller to the gig. Rissmiller, the 2015 PA Jazz Collective artist of the year, and ...