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Kal Ferretti

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Kal Ferretti is a 22 year old jazz trumpet player, composer, and educator. She is currently making herself known as a serious young musician on the New York City jazz scene. Kal grew up in New York City and started playing classical trumpet before switching to jazz while studying at the prestigious LaGuardia High School. 

Kal has worked with artists/bands such as the Christian McBride Big Band, Matt Wilson and “Permission Slip”, the Mingus Big Band/Dynasty, saxophonist Dave Glasser, trumpet player Bruce Harris, bassist Ben Allison, JALC’s Future of Jazz Orchestra, Helen Sung Big Band and Ted Nash Big Band. She also leads her own quartet and most recently, debuted the Kal Ferretti Big Band at Dizzy’s Club. Other recent performance highlights include being a part of the JALC curated Kenny Dorham Centennial Celebration trumpet summit at Dizzy’s Club, a 4 night run at Birdland with bassist Ben Allison’s new project “Unit 5”, Ellington’s “Night Creature” with Alvin Ailey at NY City Center, and the 2023 NEA Jazz Masters Award Ceremony with the Mingus Dynasty. She has also performed as a special guest with the Eastern Wind Symphony at Princeton University and the Laguardia High School Alumni Brass Quintet. Kal is also passionate about education and along with having her own private studio of trumpet students, she has served as a teaching assistant for Jazz House Kids Summer Jazz Academy. She also appears on the Grace Fox Big Band debut record “Eleven O’ Seven.”

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Article: Rising Stars

Introducing Trumpeter Kal Ferretti

Read "Introducing Trumpeter Kal Ferretti" reviewed by Sanford Josephson


When she was attending the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art, Kal Ferretti rode the subway to Manhattan from her home in Staten Island. The music on her phone was Art Blakey's Moanin' (Blue Note, 1958). “I would wear that out every train ride," she said. The 22-year-old Ferretti always wanted to play the trumpet, ...

Album

Eleven O'Seven

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


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