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Summer Camargo

Born: August 18, 2001

Summer Camargo, 21, is a trumpet player in her fourth year at The Juilliard School, majoring in jazz studies. She is a recipient of a Jerome L. Greene Fellowship at The Juilliard School. ​ Summer, born and raised in Hollywood, FL, has been a member of the prestigious All-National Jazz Band, the Jazz Band of America, the Grammy Band, the Next Generation Women in Jazz Combo, the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, and was named a National YoungArts Foundation Merit winner, and Honorable Mention in Jazz Trumpet, as well as Merit winner in Jazz Composition. Summer was also Downbeat Magazine’s Outstanding Student Jazz Performance Award recipient. At the 2017, 2018, and 2019 Essentially Ellington Festivals, she received Outstanding Trumpet Soloist Awards, and in 2018, Summer won the Ella Fitzgerald Outstanding Soloist Award, given to the best soloist in the festival. Camargo also participated in the Vail Jazz Workshop, Carnegie Hall’s NYO Jazz, the Monterey Jazz Festival Gala and played as a guest artist at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala and the Midwest Clinic. In 2020, Summer joined the Ulysses Owens, Jr. Big Band, participated in the Women in Jazz Organization Mentorship, and was awarded an Outstanding Trumpet Soloist Award at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s inaugural Jack Rudin Championship; she recently joined the GLUCK Fellowship at The Juilliard School and is the recipient of the 2020 Laurie Frink Career Grant. Most recently, Summer joined NBC's Saturday Night Live House Band, toured with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for their 2022 Big Band Holidays series with Samara Joy, and has been playing with her own band in prestigious venues in NYC such as Dizzy's and Birdland. 

To Whom I Love

By Summer Camargo

Label: Blue Engine Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: JP Shuffle, Girl in the Jeep, 80 Tears of Joy, Tenderness Within, Splanky, Exploring the City, Grateful for the Good Times, (On the) Sunny Side of the Street, Dance of the Merry Maker.

Summer Camargo: To Whom I Love

by Nicholas F. Mondello
March 15, 2024

Trumpet artist Summer Camargo startled the music and entertainment worlds when, as a brilliant 22-year-old Juilliard grad, she landed the highly-desired trumpet chair in the Saturday Night Live band. Camargo now adds to her lengthy list of achievements with her debut album, To Whom I Love. She and a cadre of New York all-stars deliver nine ...

Eleven O'Seven

By Grace Fox

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Right on Red; Gospel Interlude; The Gospel; I Just Found Out About Love; Echelon; Sterility; Stars.

Detroit Jazz Festival 2022: The 43rd Edition Returns to a Live Audience

by Paul Rauch
September 22, 2022

Detroit Jazz FestivalHart Plaza and Campus Martius jny:Detroit, MI September 2-5, 2022 The main lobby of the Detroit Marriott at Renaissance Center was abuzz with greetings and joyful conversation. You could feel the ardent positivity in the room as well as you could feel the near ninety-degree heat and accompanying steady ...

Then + Now

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Early Autumn; In A Sentimental Mood; Angel Eyes; Stardust; 'Round Midnight; This is Dreaming.

Soul Conversations

By Ulysses Owens, Jr.

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Two Bass Hit; London Towne; Beardom X; Red Chair; Giant Steps; Language of Flowers; Human Nature; Girl Talk; Harlem Harlem Harlem; Soul Conversations.

Ulysses Owens Jr. Big Band: Soul Conversations

by Jack Bowers
May 9, 2021

Drummer Ulysses Owens Jr.'s Big Band comes out swinging on its debut recording, Soul Conversations, thundering through Michael Dease's incendiary arrangement of the Dizzy Gillespie/John Lewis flame-thrower, “Two Bass Hit." For more such heat, however, the listener must move forward to Track 5, John Coltrane's impulsive “Giant Steps," thence to Track 9 for Charles Turner III's ...

Meet Pianist Tyler Henderson and Trumpeter Summer Camargo

by Sanford Josephson
May 4, 2021

This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. Growing up in Oneonta, New York, Tyler Henderson “noodled around for five years on a piano that a church donated to my family. I learned to play older rock songs by ear--stuff from Chicago and The Beatles. Then, in seventh grade, I heard the Vince Guaraldi ...