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Elliot Bild

Originally from Chicago, trumpeter, educator and composer Elliot Bild currently resides in Philadelphia, PA.

About Me

Elliot got his undergraduate degree from Western Michigan University and in 2018 received his Masters from Temple University. Recently, he has performed with the great Bassist, Mike Boone at Smalls Jazz Club in NYC as well as the 2019 Philadelphia Center City Jazz Festival, as part of his new working Quintet. He has also performed with such people as Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band, Don Braden, John Swana, Duane Eubanks, Tim Warfield Jr., Norman David and The Eleventet, Conrad Herwig, Steve Beskrone, Bill Jolly, and Pablo Batista. Elliot has performed at such venues as Chris’s Jazz Cafe, South Jazz Kitchen, Fat Cat, Smoke Jazz Club, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, and The Litchfield Jazz Festival among others. Elliot appears on recent releases by Four Imprints, Organist Lucas Brown and Bassist Nicholas Krolak He currently teaches at The Philadelphia Orchestra Youth Lessons Program, Gwynedd Mercy Academy, DeLuca Music Co., The Mattock School of Music and The Litchfield Jazz Camp.

My Jazz Story

I love jazz because.... there's a freedom to express yourself through improvisation. The culture encourages you to develop your own sound! It's "Social Music"! The best show I ever attended was... Dave Douglas Quintet at the Detroit Jazz Festival The first jazz record I bought was... "Kind Of Blue"