"His ability and application is of the highest order." -Justin DiCioccio, Manhattan School of Music Jason Gaines was born in 1979 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He moved to Sacramento, California shortly thereafter and was soon introduced to music. Jason began playing trumpet at the age of eight. He had aspired to play the alto saxophone, but only trumpets were left in the band storage room. It now seems as if fate had intervened. Music was something that seemed to come very naturally to him. He be …