Trumpeter Chris Rogers has toured & recorded as a featured soloist with many of the major artists in Jazz and Latin music since the early 1980s. As a young trumpet student growing up in New York City, Chris had the unique and fantastic experience of being mentored by Randy Brecker, Lew Soloff and Mike Lawrence. Chris is a steady presence on the New York scene, appearing with Eddie Palmieri, The Max Weinberg Jazz Quintet, Danny Seraphine & CTA, Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra, The Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra, Diane Moser’s Composers Big Band, Valery Ponomarev’s “Our Father who Art Blakey Big Band” Big Band, Alexis Cole, Andy Farber, Ryan Keberley's Living Legacy Big Band, Gary Morgan & Pan Americana, Mike Longo’s State of the Art New York Big Band, “Tom “Bones” Malone, The Harlem Hellfighter’s Ensemble, The Mambo Legends Orchestra, Big Beat; Funk Shui, and Lisa Maxwell’s “Shiny” Jazz Orchestra (featuring Randy Brecker).