Jordan Mclean ’06, MM ’20

Jordan Mclean 06, MM ’20 is a trumpeter, composer, and producer.

Over the past 25 years, Mclean has performed as trumpeter on hundreds of recordings, in thousands of concerts around the world, on every major late-night television program, with numerous members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and with artists from Public Enemy to Ornette Coleman.

His compositions appear on dozens of recordings and in the Tony Award–winning Broadway musical FELA!, for which he served as associate music director. He is co-founder of System Dialing Records. He’s trumpeter and percussionist in Armo, an Afrobeat band.

Mclean is also Associate Director of Programming at Fotografiska New York. 

Mclean graduted summa cum laude as an undergraduate in Classical Composition and earned the Graduate Award in Music and Technology years later in the Studio Composition program.