Chad Mccullough Quartet

Chad McCullough is a Chicago-based trumpeter, composer, and bandleader. He was named a Rising Star Trumpeter in the 2025 and 2026 DownBeat Magazine Critics Poll, and has been recognized by DownBeat for his “stunning, chilled lyricism and compositional acuity” — a voice that, as writer Dan McClenaghan observed, renders “each note to sound as if it were imbued with a deeper meaning.” McCullough is a co-founder of Calligram Records and a member of the jazz faculty at DePaul University. One of his newest albums, Transverse (2025), was named Runner-Up for Best Jazz Album by the International Trumpet Guild. Its predecessor, In These Hills, Beyond (2024), was described by All About Jazz as representing “the best playing of his career.” McCullough has performed at the Festival of New Trumpet Music, the Chicago Jazz Festival, the Earshot Jazz Festival, the Halifax Jazz Festival, and the Jazzenic Festival, as well as venues throughout Europe, Russia, and the Balkans. He has appeared with Maria Schneider, Dave Douglas, Queens of the Stone Age, Steve Coleman, Jon Irabagon, Kendrick Scott, Miguel Zenón, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Avishai Cohen, among others. He is an AR Resonance Performing Artist.


 

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