About Us

Meet james mcmurry

James is a confirmed band nerd, starting trombone in seventh grade and playing through graduate school, including wind ensembles, jazz band, orchestras, and horn sections. His undergraduate degree in music theory and composition is helpful when writing horn parts for “Mustang Sally.”

James has worked at St. Jude since 2011, and is currently the managing director for technology in Information Services. He joined the band in August 2012 after a long hiatus from the trombone, and has been trying to remember how to play ever since.

Career musical highlights include playing bass in a show choir for several thousand South Korean schoolchildren, recording goofy tunes with friend and college roommate Steve, that time in 1996 when he played a pretty good trombone solo at a party at Rhodes and some girls yelled "woo!”