The Summer Camargo Trio
Summer Camargo, 23, is a native of Hollywood, Florida. She is a Jerome Green Fellowship recipient at the Juilliard School, receiving her Bachelor’s Degree in 2023 and Masters Degree in 2024, majoring in Jazz Studies with trumpet as her instrument. Summer regularly performs at notable NYC jazz clubs like Dizzy’s, Birdland, and with the Mingus Big Band, and in 2022, she became the newest member of the Saturday Night Live House Band.
At the 2017, 2018, and 2019 Essentially Ellington Festivals, Summer received Outstanding Trumpet Soloist Awards, and in 2018, she won the Ella Fitzgerald Outstanding Soloist Award and the Dr. J. Douglas White Student Composition Contest. She was honored to have the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra record her first, original big band chart, “Leap Froggin’.” In 2020, Summer was a panelist for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz Congress, joined the Ulysses Owens, Jr. Big Band, was featured in FENDI’s Anima Mundi project in New York City and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Big Band Holiday concert, and was the recipient of the Laurie Frink Grant.
A young group of rising stars will have a short opening set:
Evan Gongora from William Paterson/East Hanover. He will be leading a trio with two other WP students, bassist Eli Leder from Avon, Ohio, and drummer Luke Richards from Sacramento.
For information on membership and the New Jersey Jazz Society, please visit their website at https://njjs.org/
