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John Bailey
“John Bailey is a great improviser. Since we met as teenagers I've been taken with how natural a musician he is and how deeply his roots go into the tradition of jazz music. He's a joy to listen to!”
—Donny McCaslin
Known as one of the most eclectic trumpet players in New York City, Bailey is an in-demand musician and teaching artist on call for everything from traditional jazz, to R&B and Pop, to classical. He became a member of The Buddy Rich Band while still in college, and his career has included
long-running gigs with Ray Charles, master conguero and bandleader Ray Barretto, The Woody Herman Orchestra and Frank Sinatra, Jr. His work with Latin Jazz innovator Arturo O'Farrill won two Grammy awards for the albums The Offense of the Drum and Cuba - The Conversation Continues. He has played on more than 70 albums and, as a jazz educator, has taught at the University of Miami and Florida International University.
A trumpet prodigy, Bailey's spectacular gifts began to be noticed as a high school musician in 1984 when DownBeat Magazine cited him in its annual Student Music Awards for outstanding performances in both the classical and jazz trumpet categories, noting “Shades of Wynton!” The same year, he was a finalist in the National Foundation for Advancements in the Arts (NFAA) Arts Recognition and Talent Search, along with Donny McCaslin and Bill Charlap; and won the National Association of Jazz Educators’ Youth Talent Contest. Later, as a senior at the Eastman School of Music, he won DownBeat’s Best Instrumental Soloist award.
Looking back, he says, “It all started for me when I discovered Clifford Brown. Clifford was the centerpiece of the golden era of jazz trumpet, and a great place to begin my lifelong study of the instrument. He was influenced by everyone before him, and became an influence on everyone after.”
Bailey, who continues to teach privately, believes that educating the next generation of musicians is essential for any artist. “In American culture, where the arts are often ignored or deemphasized in both schools and the mainstream media, it is up to us, the artists, to inspire an appreciation for great art.” he says. “By keeping performance standards as high as possible and sharing our devotion with others, especially children, we enrich countless lives.”
Prog vs. Fusion: A War of the Ages
By Ed Palermo
Label: Sky Cat Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Resolution; Black Hole Sun/Bodhisattva; There Comes A Time; Tarkus; Vrooom; Long Distance Runaround; Snake Oil; There's No Mystery About My G-Spot; Spanish G-Spot Tornado; Mystic Knights Of The Sea; On The Milky Way Express; Take A Pebble; One Word; The Fish; Fred; Black Hole Sun; Pictures Of A City.
Emilio Solla: Uncovering Music Already There
by Dean Nardi
In the '40s, the jazz scene was dominated by bebop with its roots in swing music, formerly the purview of the big band era. Trios and quartets became the combo of choice for players such as Charlie “Yardbird" Parker and Thelonious Monk, who took the harmonies of the old jazz and superimposed them on chord substitutions, ...
Reflections On Love
By Tom Nazziola
Label: Goju Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: One Hand, One Heart; Where or When; It Never Entered My Mind; Where Is Love; A Foggy Day; Moonlight in Vermont; Love Walked In; It’s Easy to Remember; He Loves and She Loves; I Know; No One Knows.
Tom Nazziola: Reflections On Love
by Neil Duggan
Many albums feature arrangements of standards, so what does it take to stand out from the crowd? Solutions to the problem include choosing the seldom-played lesser-known standards, changing the chords to reharmonize the songs while keeping the melody and changing the instrumentation throughout the album. Tom Nazziola uses all these tools on his album Reflections On ...
Phillip Golub, Irene Schweizer, and Bill Frisell
by Jerome Wilson
This show features recent releases by Phillip Golub, Sam Anning, and Bill Frisell as well as older work from the San Francisco String Trio, Irene Schweizer, and King Pleasure. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 ...
One Hand, One Heart
Album: Reflections On Love
By Tom Nazziola
Label: Goju Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 2:45
Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2023
by Jack Bowers
2023 was another banner year for jazz of all shapes and sizes. It has been a pleasure to review so many splendid big-band albums along with wonderful enterprises by smaller groups, some of which were recording for the first time (hopefully, not the last). If this was a preview of things to come, we look forward ...
John Bailey: Time Bandits
by Jack Bowers
After working and recording for decades with some of the jazz world's best and brightest talents, trumpeter John Bailey released his first album as leader of his own group in 2018, the second in 2020 and, in 2023, his third, Time Bandits, which shares a name but nothing more with Terry Gilliam's 1981 film fantasy.
