{"id":1911,"date":"2024-02-06T06:35:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T11:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bnatural.nyc\/?post_type=artists&#038;p=1911"},"modified":"2024-02-09T16:39:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T21:39:12","slug":"jumaane-smith","status":"publish","type":"artists","link":"https:\/\/bnatural.nyc\/artists\/jumaane-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumaane Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and composer Jumaane Smith has performed on 5 GRAMMY Award-winning records (selling more than 60 million copies), 2 Emmy Award-nominated TV performances, the GRAMMY Awards with Stevie Wonder, in Steven Spielberg\u2019s West Side Story (trumpet solo), at The White House, on the Today Show, Tonight Show, Oprah, Good Morning America, and American Idol.<\/p>\n<p>Jumaane has spent the last 18 years touring and recording with Michael Bubl\u00e9 as lead trumpeter and vocalist and featured soloist, was a member of Harry Connick Jr.\u2019s house band for the syndicated daytime TV show \u201cHarry,\u201d and the featured guest soloist for Jackie Evancho\u2019s, \u201cSongs of the Silver Screen\u201d world tour backed by a 60-piece symphony orchestra. Jumaane has toured with his own band to such world-class venues as Jazz At Lincoln Center, Birdland Jazz Club, Vail Jazz Festival, Java Jazz Festival, North Star Festival, Joe&amp;#39;s Pub, Rochester International Jazz Festival, Catalina Island Jazz Festival, and many more.<\/p>\n<p>Jumaane Smith\u2019s critically-acclaimed debut album, \u201cI Only Have Eyes For You,\u201d features special guests Michael Bubl\u00e9, Jackie Evancho, and Naturally 7. His sophomore album, \u201cWhen You\u2019re Smiling,\u201d was released to much praise in January 2020. As a composer, Smith has scored music for films such as \u201cHandsome Harry\u201d (starring Steve Buscemi and Jamey Sheridan) and the documentary\u00a0 \u201cBeing in the World,\u201d\u00a0 as well as for his own recordings and the interactive sheet music company Tomplay. Smith has worked with musical legends such as Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Christian McBride, Barbra Streisand, and many more. As a full scholarship recipient at the Juilliard School of Music\u2019s Jazz Studies program (2001-2005), Wynton Marsalis was Smith\u2019s primary trumpet teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and composer Jumaane Smith has performed on 5 GRAMMY Award-winning records (selling more than 60 million copies), 2 Emmy Award-nominated TV performances, the GRAMMY Awards with Stevie Wonder, in Steven Spielberg\u2019s West Side Story (trumpet solo), at The White House, on the Today Show, Tonight Show, Oprah, Good Morning America, and American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1912,"template":"","acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jumaane Smith - B Natural, Inc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bnatural.nyc\/artists\/jumaane-smith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jumaane Smith - B Natural, Inc.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and composer Jumaane Smith has performed on 5 GRAMMY Award-winning records (selling more than 60 million copies), 2 Emmy Award-nominated TV performances, the GRAMMY Awards with Stevie Wonder, in Steven Spielberg\u2019s West Side Story (trumpet solo), at The White House, on the Today Show, Tonight Show, Oprah, Good Morning America, and American [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/bnatural.nyc\/artists\/jumaane-smith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"B Natural, Inc.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BnaturalMGMT\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-09T21:39:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/bnatural.nyc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Jumaane-Smith-Photo-by-Gina-Intorre-Anna-Becker-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1773\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnatural.nyc\/artists\/jumaane-smith\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/bnatural.nyc\/artists\/jumaane-smith\/\",\"name\":\"Jumaane Smith - B Natural, Inc.\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnatural.nyc\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-06T11:35:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-09T21:39:12+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnatural.nyc\/artists\/jumaane-smith\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/bnatural.nyc\/artists\/jumaane-smith\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnatural.nyc\/artists\/jumaane-smith\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/bnatural.nyc\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Jumaane Smith\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnatural.nyc\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/bnatural.nyc\/\",\"name\":\"B Natural, Inc.\",\"description\":\"Booking &amp; 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