Caravan comes out swinging with a propulsive arrangement by Jeremy Fletcher
- The New York City Jazz Record, August 2023
About
Multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Fletcher has worked for over 30 years as a performer, composer, and music educator. Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, he got his professional start in stage shows at Kennywood Amusement Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1990, just a few years after Billy Porter debuted in the same group. After studying saxophone performance at Carnegie Mellon University, Jeremy went on to appear in the Pittsburgh area with Bernadette Peters, Jerry Vale, the Guy Lombardo Orchestra, the Roger Humphries Big Band, in The Temptations TV miniseries, with the Altoona Symphony Orchestra, and as a woodwind doubler for numerous productions at the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Pittsburgh Musical Theater. In 2002 he moved to New York City to pursue graduate studies in jazz composition at Manhattan School of Music, where he also earned a doctorate in 2008. While at MSM, Jeremy began his long association with drummer & percussionist Bobby Sanabria, writing originals and arrangements that appear on three Grammy nominated albums including Big Band Urban Folktales (2007), Multiverse (2012), and West Side Story Reimagined (2019), which also won the Jazz Journalists Association Album of the Year. The original composition D Train from Big Band Urban Folktales was licensed by the Bose Corporation in 2009 for use with their in-store product demonstrations. In 2017 Jeremy arranged music for Sanabria's appearance in season 1 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Throughout the pandemic Fletcher worked as a video editor and recording engineer to create virtual band videos, and his video tribute Haiku for Kevin Bryan was featured on International Jazz Day in April of 2020. Jeremy recently contributed arrangements to a fourth album by Bobby Sanabria, Vox Humana, which was just released in May of 2023 and features singers Jennifer Jade Ledesna, Antoinette Montague, and 10X Grammy winner Janis Siegel. As an educator, Dr. Fletcher has taught in both public and private schools including Chartiers Valley Elementary, P.S.9, Friends Seminary School (NYC), and in the Manhattan School of Music Precollege, where he counted among his students Charlie Puth as well as Ivan Jackson of Brasstracks. For the last 16 years, Jeremy has been the music director at St. Benedict’s Prep School in Newark, NJ. He is also an accomplished photographer whose photos have been featured in Jazziz magazine.