Herb Pomeroy

Herb Pomeroy was an American jazz trumpeter and educator born in the United States in 1930. Irving Herbert Pomeroy III studied at the Schillinger House between 1950 and 1952. They performed with musicians including Charlie Parker, Lionel Hampton, and Stan Kenton before established their own big bands in the late 1950s. In 1963, Pomeroy founded the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, which they directed for 22 years and led on tours across the United States and Europe. Their discography includes the albums Band in Boston (1958) and The Band and I (1958), the latter a collaboration with Irene Kral. They received an honorary degree from the Berklee College of Music in 1995 and were inducted into the International Association of Jazz Educators Hall of Fame in 1996. Pomeroy died in 2007.

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