Results for "Trumpet"

Rob Walker

Born: March 8, 1963

BIO Rob Walker has performed with many of music's most notable acts including Wayne Newton, Natalie Cole, Ray Charles, The Temptations, The Supremes, and The Moody Blues. He recently was the guest soloist and arranger for the United States Air Force Jazz Commanders tour. He was recognized by Downbeat magazine as a "Musician Deserving Wider Recognition". As a jazz soloist, Walker appeared at the 2002 Park City International Jazz Festival and at the San Miguel International Jazz Festival in Mexico in 2000 and 2002. In 2004, he appeared with Brent Jensen along with the Lewis Nash Quintet at the Living Legends Jazz Festival

Michael Simon

Born: January 14, 1975

Michael Simon's exposure to music started at a very young age. His father, Hadsy Simon, a guitarist and singer (who started it all), and his brothers Edward (pianist) and Marlon (drummer) kept the music environment in the house and supported him throughout his studies. At the age of fourteen, Michael started taking trumpet lessons as well as musical theory and solfege lessons at a local music school in Valencia (Venezuela), and later started gaining on-stage experience playing with local (popular music) bands. Troughout this period, his brothers encouraged him to listen to Jazz, which drove him to a desire for new goals

Mark Zauss

Born: July 5, 1967

Trumpet artist and band leader, Mark Zauss is endorsed by the Leblanc Corporation along with Arturo Sandoval, Maynard Ferguson, and Wallace Roney. Mark has performed with Arturo Sandoval, Branford Marsalis, James Moody, Pat Metheny, Rita Moreno, Sandy Patti, The Temptations, The Spinners, Maureen McGovern, Frankie Valli and many others. As a recording artist, Mark has two solo albums, BEYOND THE STATOSPHERE and NO LIMITS. Both albums are for sale at his website: www.markzauss.com For the past 7 years mark has been a band leader and has formed 7 musical groups which he leads and performs in

Eric Wayne

Born: February 26, 1965

Eric Wayne received his Baccalaureate in Music Performance from the University of Northern Colorado's Schoool of Music, where his professors included Wialliam Pfund, Buddy Baker, and Gene Aitken.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mr. Wayne can be heard in the Golden Gate Park Band and Jeff Sanford's Cartoon Jazz Band among others. He plays trumpet, flugelhorn, and cornet.
More than just a musician, he started a record label in 2012 called Digital Victrola Recordings where he produces many of the Bay Area's finest musicians and groups. Visit www.digitalvictrola.com to learn more. Mr

Chris Kirk

Born: May 12, 1953

Trumpet/Flugel Horn/Percussion. Chris Kirk started his musical career at the age of 6 when he learned to play trumpet. Since then he has developed his playing through brass bands, swing bands, jazz groups, pop groups and orchestras. For 10 years he taught young people and mature students both brass and percussion instruments and helped them through Associated Board Music Exams. Currently Chris plays with the Norfolk based Eddie Seales Big Band, Centre Stage Swing Band, Norfolk Symphony Orchestra and various Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire Jazz groups. He plays regular jazz session in Kings Lynn and jointly with a vocalist, formed Transition Jazz, covering all aspects of Jazz, Swing, Bebop, Latin, Blues and Funk. Chris performs with pop groups (Fantasia and Pandermonium) as well as tribute bands (Blues Brothers, ABBA, Beatles, etc.) and plays with theatre bands in Operettas, Musicals, Shows and Pantomimes. Nationally Chris has worked with acclaimed artists Steve Waterman (Trumpet), Peter King (Sax), Don Rendall (Sax), Trevor Tomkins (Drums), Jeff Clyne (Bass), Tina May (Vocals), Nikki Iles (Piano) and has been asked to perform with Canadian vocalist Stevie Vallance. He regularly performs at Pizza on the Park (Hyde Park Corner, London), The Battersea Barge (London), The Corn Exchange (Kings Lynn), various Jazz Festivals and other venues locally, nationally and abroad.

Marcus Rabb

Born: May 10, 1971

Marcus Rabb, a native of Baltimore, began music studies at a young age and was playing trumpet in area jazz bands by the time he entered high school. He received a full music scholarship to Howard University, where he honed his career as a performer and composer and earned his master's degree. On a fellowship he studied chamber music at the American Conservatory of Music in Fountainebleau, France. Rabb has performed with such top jazz luminaries as Wynton Marsalis, Milt Jackson, Nestor Torres and Joe Henderson and is also a noted composer and arranger. On the performance side, he leads the Marcus Rabb Quintet and is a member of VI Art Ensemble

Kenn Ash

Born: December 23, 1956

A recent player but a lifetime fan. I jam at The Vermont Jazz Center in Brattleboro, VT and play with local community bands to keep my chops flowing. I'm ready for the Jazz World so listen out for me - I'm coming! I've played "Funky Fridays" in Bennington, Vermont -July 9, August 13, September 10, and October 8, 2004, from 5 to 8 pm, where I became a "busker" or street musician, and played my trumpet in the heart of town, enjoying my music and the interaction of the pededtrians. I called myself "The Kenn Ash Quartet Minus Three."

Andy Fiddes

Born: January 2, 1975

Australian trumpeter and composer Andy Fiddes has been exciting audiences with his blend of Contemporary Jazz and "quirky" stage presence since making a mark on the Sydney jazz scene with the little big band FIDDAESTHETIC. Since then his two groups SURVIVAL OF THE FIDDES and LIVEWIRE have burnt up stages with their firey intesity and commitment to engage the audience. Andy musical goal is to "maintain artistic integrity whilst engaging and including the crowd as part of the performance, rather than having them as mere spectators"

Dan Jacobs, ph.d.

Dan Jacobs is a veteran freelance trumpeter who has worked nationally and internationally before settling in the Los Angeles area. He is busy in the studios, working with various bands as well as his own jazz combo.

Wynton Marsalis

Born: October 18, 1961

Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading advocate of American culture. He is the world’s first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz. By creating and performing an expansive range of brilliant new music for quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras, tap dance to ballet, Wynton has expanded the vocabulary for jazz and created a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers.