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Dan White Sextet
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The Dan White Sextet is a band that plays real music. Soul, Jazz, Rock, R&B, and Hip-Hop,
are all styles they blend together to create fresh, honest and feel good music.
The group began in 2010 when Dan White, Chris Ott and Jon Lampley met at The Ohio
State University. What started as a group of students getting together to play standard
arrangements developed into a six-piece band driven to write original compositions, and
craft inventive interpretations of American pop music.
The founders of the ‘dw6’ have garnered an eclectic musical background. White has
received awards from Downbeat magazine for composition as well as solos. He also played
saxophone in the Disneyland All-American College Band with Ott, who has earned
accolades for his trombone playing and his arrangements for small instrumental and vocal
ensembles. Lampley comes from the gospel music tradition, and has recently gained
experience playing trumpet on tour with the platinum selling rock band O.A.R.
Rather than trying to adhere to today’s constantly changing pop culture climate, the Dan
White Sextet strives to define its own path: to create genuine, original music that is
inspired by the voices of the past and the soundtrack of the present; the music for life in
the next ten minutes as well as in ten years.