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Longineu Parsons is a musician and composer who is hailed internationally by critics as one of the world’s finest trumpet players. Parsons is a master of trumpet, a composer, a multi-instrumentalist, a singer and a stage performer. Over his career, he has performed in over 30 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and has shared the stage with the likes of Branford Marsalis and Cab Calloway. Longineu is an Associate Professor of Trumpet at Florida A&M University (FAMU) in Tallahassee, Florida. Locally, Longineu has participated in the Jacksonville Jazz Festival on 10 occasions. For his contributions to our festival and for his commitment to the education of future generations of jazz, Longineu Parsons has been selected as a 2006 member of the Jacksonville Jazz Festival Hall of Fame.

Longineu Parsons: 25th Anniversary Work Song

Read "25th Anniversary Work Song" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
August 15, 2019

Longineu Parsons blows his trumpet with fearsome intensity on the first four tracks of this album celebrating the 25th anniversary of Nat Adderley's classic soul number “Work Song." Perhaps he blows it with enough intensity to wake the dead: Nat Adderley who died on January 2, 2000, is credited with production, while the great but largely unheralded Sam Rivers, who died on December 26, 2011, blows up a storm on reeds. The liner notes state: “It might ...