Callet Jerome

Jerome Callet is the greatest living brass teacher, with an army of students from all over the world who play with unparalleled tone quality, range, and endurance, in all musical styles.
Jerome, who is now in his mid-80’s (as of 2015), grew up in Pittsburg, and attended the same public school as trumpeters Tommy Turrentine (brother of Stanley Turrentine) and Cal Massey (who later wrote music for John Coltrane and Freddie Hubbard). Although Jerome studied with the best teachers in and around Pittsburg as a youth, he was unable to play high C on the trumpet. Jerome then embarked on a decades-​long search to determine how even the young trumpet players from his school days were able to play the trumpet with the kind of range, sound, and endurance heard on records.
Jerome’s musical discoveries led him to teaching brass embouchure, and subsequently, to manufacturing his own trumpets and mouthpieces, as well as a professional trombone and flugelhorn.
Jerome has recently released his latest B flat trumpet, the NY Soloist (in 2015), which I recently obtained, and am a huge fan of.
Although treated as a pariah by the New York City music-​education cartel (Julliard, Manhattan School of Music, etc.), Jerome’s successful students from all over the world prove otherwise.
If you are interested in the mechanics of sound production on the trumpet, you will not be disappointed by a visit to Jerome’s studio out in Staten Island — definitely worth the trip !!!