Derek Sims: Trumpeter, composer, educator steps back into Jazztronica.

You may not know it but our opening music is a tune called Ghost Jazz. The composers have kindly let us use it all these years. It was written by Keith Schreiner also known as Auditory Sculpture and today’s guest trumpeter, composer and educator Derek Sims. They called themselves Jazztronica in the early 2000s. Derek holds the trumpet chair in Mel Brown’s famed Septet, previously held by Thara Memory. He started the Portland Jazz School in September of 2017, is the Adjunct Professor of Jazz Trumpet and the Jazz Band Director at Portland State University. What I didn’t know before talking to him today is that he has returned to his Jazztronica period in his newest compositions. Let’s catch up with Derek Sims.