Jesse Selengut is a New York City based trumpeter, composer, and singer.

A noted performer of American Roots music, Selengut helped create “Treasures of the Sea” and “The Cangelosi Cards”. He now sings, composes, & plays trumpet in Tin Pan that includes notables Clifton Hyde

Clifton Hyde

Clifton Hyde is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer currently working from and residing in New York City....

 (production, guitars, & vocals), Stefan Zeniuk

Stefan Zeniuk

Stefan Zeniuk is a New York City based musician and filmmaker.Often seen performing on the tenor saxophone, bass saxophone, c-soprano saxophone, english horn, clarinet, contra-alto clarinet & bass clarinet he is noted for his intense musical personality and dynamic stage presence...

 (reeds), and Pete "Baby Hands" Maness (double bass & vocals).

Selengut leads the contemporary jazz group NOIR which performed in the World Harmony tour in Kenya in 2007 to raise money and awareness for the Shangilia Orphanage in Nairobi.

In the free jazz

Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...

 and avant-garde

Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

 idiom, Jesse Selengut has performed with Dave Douglas, Butch Morris

Butch Morris

Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris is an American jazz cornetist, composer and conductor.-Biography:Before his musical career, Morris served in Vietnam during the Vietnam War....

, Kenny Wollesen, Sabir Matteen and Daniel Carter.

Jesse Selengut founded, directed and produced the Williamsburg Jazz Festival from its inception in 2003 to its final year in 2007. This annual multi-stage event took place in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, NY and ran consecutively for 5 years. Performers have included Dave Douglas, Chris Potter

Chris Potter (jazz saxophonist)

Chris Potter is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.-Biography:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Potter spent most of his childhood in Columbia, South Carolina where his mother taught psychology at the University of South Carolina...

, Nellie McKay, Wayne Krantz

Wayne Krantz

Wayne Krantz is an American jazz fusion guitarist. He has played with top artists such as Steely Dan, Michael Brecker, Billy Cobham, and others, but is most active as a solo performer.-Biography:...

, Steve Coleman

Steve Coleman

Steve Coleman, born , is an African American saxophone player, spontaneous composer, composer and band leader. His music and concepts have been a heavy influence on contemporary jazz.-Chicago:...

, Dafnis Prieto, Eric Reed, and Yosvany Terry among others.

Selengut is also a percussionist of long-standing. In 1996 he formed an organization called Full Circle Drumming. Full Circle Drumming provides drumming workshops for social work organizations and corporations. Often presented as “mind expansion” exercises, the drumming workshops provide an opportunity for people of all kinds to benefit from the deep personal and interpersonal connection that can be experienced by drumming and music in general. To date, Selengut has led over 4000 participants in drum circles that have taken place all over the world (Singapore, Sweden, Norway, Brazil and various locations in the US).