Nate Wooley was born in 1974 in Clatskanie, Oregon, a small timber and fishing community near the mouth of the Columbia River. He began playing trumpet professionally with his father at the age of 13. After schooling at the University of Oregon and University of Denver and informal studies with Ron Miles, Art Lande and Jack Wright, he moved to Jersey City, New Jersey in the spring of 2001. Since his arrival in New York, Nate has become a much sought after sideman in jazz, experimental music, new music, dance and rock circles, working regularly with artists as diverse as Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Paul Lytton, Evan Parker, Akron Family, David Grubbs, C. Spencer Yeh, Chris Corsano, Mary Halvorson, and Taylor Ho Bynum. He has also become one of the small handful of American trumpet players, along with Greg Kelley and Peter Evans present on the international music scene pushing beyond the physical boundaries of the instrument through deconstruction of the instrument itself and its historical context. His solo work stands side by side with both Evans and Kelley (as well as European’s Axel Dorner and Franz Hautzinger among others) in a growing canon of early 21st century experimental trumpet music.