Jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and composer Jumaane Smith has performed on 5 GRAMMY-winning records (selling more than 60 million copies), 2 Emmy-nominated TV performances, the GRAMMY Awards with Stevie Wonder, in Steven Spielberg’s "West Side Story," and more. He has spent the last 18 years touring and recording with Michael Bublé as lead trumpeter and featured vocalist and has toured with his own band to such world-class venues as Jazz At Lincoln Center, Birdland Jazz Club, Vail Jazz Festival, Java Jazz Festival, North Star Festival, Joe's Pub, Rochester International Jazz Festival, Catalina Island Jazz Festival, and many more.  

Smith has worked with musical legends such as Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Christian McBride, Barbra Streisand, Alicia Keys, Jon Batiste, Kamasi Washington, and Theo Croker. As a full scholarship recipient at the Juilliard School of Music’s Jazz Studies program, Wynton Marsalis was Smith’s primary trumpet teacher. 

The Milt Hinton Memorial Concerts return for the first time since before the pandemic, recognizing the legacy of renowned jazz bassist and longtime Baruch faculty member Milt Hinton (1910-2000), who received an honorary degree from the college in 1996.