Jazz Articles about John Blount

John Blount Featuring Dave Tucker and the New Big Band: Better Days Ahead

by Nicholas F. Mondello
April 9, 2009

The cover art on trumpeter John Blount's Better Days Ahead depicts glorious sunshine. Visually beautiful, it is most appropriate for this CD--which will probably help propel Blount, Dave Tucker and the New Big Band to great things and better days ahead. Blount spent decades as lead trumpeter and featured soloist with the U.S. Navy's elite Commodores Big Band. He shows here that he is indeed a master of his instrument, from the mellowest lower tones to the ...