Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, trumpeter Jackie Coleman has a strong love for
music. In 2005, she received her BM in Jazz Studies at Indiana University and in 2007,
her MM in Jazz Studies from the University of Southern California. In the past, she has
participated in groups such as the Disney Collegiate All-Star band, the 2005 IAJE
Sisters in Jazz, the Bill Watrous Wildlife Refugee Big Band, Anne Patterson's Maiden
Voyage, and other groups that were led by her. With these groups, she was able to
perform at festivals all around the world, including the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland,
the Molde Jazz Festival in Norway, the Kennedy Center's Mary Lou Williams Jazz
Festival in D.C., and the Jazz Peru Festival in Lima, Peru. She was also a finalist in
both the National Trumpet Competition and the International Trumpet Guild
Competition in 2005.
Currently, she resides in New York where she is the leader of a trumpet rock
band called The Chase Experiment.
