Corey King was born in Houston, Texas. He started playing classical trombone at age 11 and discovered jazz a few years later when he enrolled in The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. While King was in high school, he had the opportunity to play in the Texas All-State Jazz Ensemble, The Gibson Baldwin Grammy Jazz Ensemble and won an outstanding soloist award from Down Beat Magazine in 2004. In the fall of 2004, King earned a scholarship to study at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City, where he studied with Anne Drummond, Stefon Harris, Vincent Gardner, and Laurie Fink. While in New
York, King has had the opportunity to play with Jason Moran, Dave Binney, Chris Dave, Stokley of Mint Condition, Mos Def, Gil Scott-Heron, Bilal, Elizabeth and the Catapult, Wyclef Jean, Mary J. Blige, The Mettawee River Theater company under Ralph Lee, and has recorded for Mark Ronson. In 2006, Corey went to Senegal, Africa to perform with R&B artist Lauren Hill and performed with rap artist Ludacris on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Saturday Night Live, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The David Letterman Show. King is currently leading his own band, and working to make a name for himself in New York.
