Jeff Oster is a Grammy-nominated[1] American musician who specializes in trumpet and flugelhorn in the New Age music genre.

[13] In 1978, at age 19, Oster discovered Chuck Mangione's album "Feels So Good" which led him to order a Yamaha Flugelhorn that he still plays today.

In 1987, at the recommendation of a friend, Oster passed his Series 7 exam, became a financial advisor,[15] and decided to save enough money to hire professionals to record his music.

The first track of the album, Saturn Calling, won the 7th Annual Independent Music Awards' Best New Age Song in 2008.

[8][17] The nationally syndicated NPR radio show Echoes' staff selected the album for their 25 Essential CDs for 2011.

[25] In 2007, Oster took the sound rendering of data collected by the Cassini spacecraft's radio and plasma wave science instruments as the basis for the song "Saturn Calling" which appeared as the first track on his album "TRUE."

[29] In 2012, Oster was a featured artist on two tracks of Laura Sullivan's Grammy Award-winning album Love's River.

[33] In 2015, guitarist Lawrence Blatt, pianist Fiona Joy Hawkins, producer/guitarist William Ackerman, and Oster formed the group Flow.

[37] In 2017, Deepak Chopra, a prominent figure in the New Age movement, together with Kabir Sehgal and Paul Avgerinos published a book titled "Home: Where Everyone is Welcome," featuring 34 poems and accompanied by a CD of twelve songs inspired by immigrants cultural contribution to the United States.

[39] In 2018, Oster began performing with FLOW's co-producer Tom Eaton and guitarist Vin Downes in a group they named Departure[40] and appeared on an Echoes streaming "living room concert."

[45][46] Oster has said "As I've grown, I've been inspired by Bill Chase, and Herb Alpert, and Miles Davis and Chris Botti, along with Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, Will Ackerman, Yes, U2, and today by artists such as Kendrick Lamar.

[47] From 1994 to 1997, he worked with Prudential Securities as a senior vice president in investments, and since then has served as a Registered Principal and Branch Manager of Raymond James Financial.