Gilbert Castellanos

Jazz innovation at its spectacular best. “[Castellanos] plays with élan, evincing a more individual, ever-large sound offering hard-swinging, often ear-grabbing solos….” Los Angeles Times

Considered one of the nation’s top-call jazz trumpeters, Gilbert Castellanos is a renowned musician, composer, educator and arranger. Skilled with impressive dexterity and control, his clarity of expression and improvisational fluency moves audiences with a seemingly profound effortlessness and complexly emotive affect.