Results for "Trumpet"

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.

Cullen Knight

Cullen Knight is a jazz trumpeter and composer. Knight attended the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and studied trumpet with Gilbert Johnson and Sam Krauss (principal trumpeters) with the Philadelphia Orchestra for four years. Cullen majored in music at Jules E. Mastbaum Avts High School in Philadelphia and studied trumpet at the Settlement Music School. He graduated from Mastbaum with honors and became a member of the schools distinguished alumnus that includes Johnny Coles, Ted Curson, Buddy Defranco, Henry Grimes, Lee Morgan, Red Rodney, Joe Wilder, and a host of others. Cullen Knight was the principal trumpet and featured soloist with the Broadway Musical Company's New York production of the "Gershwin-Gala" 1991 and 1992 (European touring company.) He was also the featured jazz soloist with the hit Broadway musical "Bubbling Brown Sugar" for its 1976 & 1986 runs in Philadelphia and the shows' 1983, 84 and 85 European tours. Cullen has performed with: Kenny Barron, Cab Calloway, Sam Cook, Billy Daniels, Marvin Gaye, Al Grey and Jimmy Forrest, Illinois Jacquet, Philly Joe Jones, Michel LeGrand, Melba Liston, Hank Mobley, Don Patterson, Grover Washington Jr., Nancy Wilson, and Stevie Wonder

Mike Parykaza

Born: November 18, 1957

20 plus years performing on trumpet and flugelhorn. Recent additions include valve trombone, percussion, lead vocals, arranging/composition, and piano. Genres include mainstream jazz, blues, funk/soul/r&b, big band (lead & solo), classical, pop, and others.

Johnny Souza

Based in the Boston area, Johnny Souza's repetoire consists of popular jazz standards and original jazz compositions. "Souza's forte lies in his prodigious instrumental solos, either on trumpet or flugelhorn he employs smooth, legato lines, his sense of melody and improvisation, ever renewing, does not fall into the trap of excessive cliches and loquaciousness" Ernie Santosuosso - Boston Globe Jazz Critic/QuarterNotes Jazz Publication "World-class", mainstream jazz" Charles Matthewson - OCM Newspapers "Trumpeter and vocalist Johnny Souza has an incredibly strong and pure tone as well as a fluid attack that produces well articulated, melodic lines

Mark Buselli

Born: June 3, 1958

Mark Buselli is Director of Jazz Studies at Ball State University in Indiana.

Buselli's awards include a 2010-11 BSU College of Fine Arts Dean's Creative Arts Award, a Creative Renewal grant from the Indianapolis Arts Counci in 2005, a teacher of the year award in 2004 at Butler University, a Creative Vision award from NUVO in May of 2007, a top ten CD release of 2009 (Dec 09) in JAZZIZ magazine for "An Old Soul," and a top 100 CD of the decade (Jan 10) in Downbeat magazine for the Buselli/Wallarab release of "Basically Baker"

Buselli has over forty arrangements published for big bands, brass ensemble, and piano/trumpet

Andrew Neesley

Born: July 10, 1979

Andrew Neesley is an award-winning and inventive trumpeter, violinist, singer, composer, and producer who regularly brings his acclaimed style to club and festival stages. Born in Milwaukee and based in New York, Neesley has made his mark nationally performing with contemporary music greats. Neesley has performed, composed, and arranged with the Bobby Sanabria Big Band on their releases Big Band Urban Folktales and Multiverse, both nominated for GRAMMY awards, in 2007 and 2012. He has also composed and arranged for Kenya Revisited LIVE!!!, the 2009 Latin GRAMMY-nominated album. They celebrated Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story with West Side Story: Reimagned, a live recording from Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy Club Coca-Cola in November 2017. His current project, Jesus On The Mainline, recently released their debut full-length album for Ropeadope Records

Bryan Davis

Born: October 17, 1974

Bryan Davis is a trumpet and flügelhorn player and teacher, originally from the UK, now residing in New York City, USA. He has gained an international reputation as a Lead Trumpeter, and is also highly regarded as a Jazz soloist. He received his formal musical training at Leeds College of Music but considers “the road” as his true education. With over 20 years of professional experience to his credit, Bryan continues to learn from the thousands of musicians he has performed with around the world. His trumpet teachers include J. Brian Brown, Richard Iles, Dick Hawdon, Gerard Presencer, Brian Lynch and Roger Ingram

Jim Rotondi

Born: August 28, 1962

Trumpeter Jim Rotondi was a major figure in the world of jazz for over 30 years, both in New York and on the international scene. His sound, soul, and sense of swing were in demand as leader and sideman all over the world.

A Montana native raised in a musical family, Jim started with the piano at eight years old and switched to trumpet at age twelve. Two years later Jim heard a recording of Clifford Brown and he was on his way.  A product of the prestigious music program at the University of North Texas, Jim won first place in the International Trumpet Guild’s Jazz Trumpet Competition in 1984.