Results for "Trumpet"

Mandla Mlangeni

Mandla Mlangeni is a Johannesburg-based trumpeter, composer and bandleader. A superbly talented player, Manda is a member of the SAMA-nominated group Amandla Freedom Ensemble and has toured extensively as a member of the Cape Town Opera. Recently, his musical production Oratorio For A Forgotten Youth was premiered by the Artscape Opera House. Mandla is also highly active with Tune Recreation committee, a group which he founded to teach music workshops and provide healing to disenfranchised communities. Outside of his performance and education work, Mandla curates Monday Blues at the Bassline and a host of other Johannesburg-based concerts under the presenting banner of Afrikan Freedom Principle.

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Jamal Dickerson

A native of Camden, New Jersey, Jamal P. Dickerson started formal music studies during grade school. By high school he was studying with many Philadelphia jazz greats, including Terrell Stafford, Tim Warfield, Shirley Scott, Cullen Knight, and Leon Mitchell. He is a trumpeter and world percussionist, with emphasis on West African music. He received a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Morgan State University in 1999 and a Masters in Public Administration from Rutgers in 2010. During a thirty day intensive in Guinea, West Africa he studied Djembe family percussion, Balafon and Kora, under the direction of Moussa Diabate, with the African National Ballet, Les Ballet Africain De Guinea

Anthony Hervey

Born: December 30, 1996

Anthony Hervey, who was recently recognized by Grammy.com as one of  “10 emerging artists to know in 2023, has impressed audiences across the globe as a first-call sideman for luminaries such as Christian McBride, Jon Batiste, Michael Bublé, and Wynton Marsalis, who described Hervey as a “beautiful trumpet player of the first magnitude.”

He was a member of the nationally renowned Dillard Center for the Arts Jazz Ensemble in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and afterward earned admission to the prestigious Juilliard School.  There he honed his craft and graduated with a B.M. in 2019 and an M.M. in 2020.  His debut album, “Words From My Horn,” is a blend of soulful and cerebral compositions that draw from his personal, musical, and spiritual memories.

Natanael Ramos

Born: January 11, 1988

Born in La Orotava (Canary Islands, Spain) in 1988. Natanael graduated with a Master in Jazz Music degree at the CvA (Conservatorium van Amsterdam) with Ruud Breuls, Jan Oosthof, Joris Roelofs and many others after having completed the Bachelor in Jazz Trumpet at MUSIKENE (Center for Advanced Musical Studies of the Basque Country) with trumpeter Chris Kase. He has also been taught by Perico Sambeat, Bob Sands, Miguel Blanco, Roger Mas, Joaquin Chacon, and masterclasses with Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Ambrose Akinmusire, Avisahi Cohen, Terence Blanchard, Terrell Strafford, Till Brönner, Jerry Bergonzi, Polo Orti, Javier Colina, David Pastor and many others. He leads his own band, a latin jazz nonet ‘La Banda del Solar’ and a salsa collective in Tenerife called ‘IBAKÓ’, projects for which he composes and arranges

Scott Abrahamson

Based in New England, Scott Abrahamson is an accomplished performer, educator, and music industry businessman. Both a classically and jazz trained trumpeter, Scott demonstrates great versatility in a range of styles, and has performed extensively throughout the East Coast. He has also performed in the Mid-West, Canada, and Europe. To the latter, he performed at the North Sea and Montreux International Jazz Festivals in 1993. As a freelance musician in Southern New England, Scott has enjoyed enduring success in jazz combos, sacred music, big bands, chamber ensembles, and in pit orchestras

Jackson McGirr

Born: January 13, 1953

30 years of free-lance work in many genres both commercial and classical. 20 years in the hotels of the Catskill Mountains playing all variety of show music. 20 years of private teaching: all levels and ages, Trumpet & Trombone.

Dorian A Mohar

Born: November 15, 1983

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     Dorian Mohar is a seasoned trumpet teacher and performer with over 20 years of experience. He has a BM in Music Education, MM in Trumpet Performance, worked 5 years as a Music Director and lead trumpet player on Carnival Cruise lines and has continued freelance trumpet lifestyle. He now teaches trumpet online and from his home studio in Cherry Hill, NJ. He is also the owner of Triplo Press, one of the world’s largest publishing companies of trumpet ensemble music. In addition, he runs trumpet clinics for schools, where he teaches students how to improve their sound, endurance, jazz skills, ensemble playing, and trumpet ensemble creation

Thomas Vinnedge Jenkins

Born: May 17, 1928

Grew up in Beaumont. Student of Everette James (father of Harry James). Jobbed as a freelance player my entire life. Subbed on several name bands but never bought into the "great" deals offered. Spent 52 years in Higher Education Administration. Was music arranger for Vince DiNino and The University of Texas Longhorn Band. Retired and living in Wimberley.

Mattia Salvadori

Born: December 22, 1991

Mattia Salvadori, born in 1991 in Pontedera (Pisa, Italy). He has collaborated and played with different formations and he had the opportunity to expand his language by playing various genres as rhythm'n'blues, soul, blues, rock'n'roll, swing, folk, pop, jazz, surf rock, funk, house, edm, hip hop in many venues, festivals and squares both in Italy and abroad. He has been playing since 2010 with "Borrkia Big Band" (rock'n'roll, blues, soul) since 2015 with "Fuochi di Paglia" (songwriting, swing) and with "Zoostaff Live" (house, edm). He has studied with musicians like Fabrizio Bosso, Antonio Sanchez, Tom Harrell, Adam Cruz, Ugonna Okegwo, Danny Grissett, Steve Herrman, Charlie Wood, Sax Gordon, Fabio Morgera, Tony Cattano, Aldo Bassi, Alberto Marsico, Fabio Zeppetella, Manolo Nardi. He shared the stage with: Bandabardò, Sax Gordon, Igor Prado, Yuri Prado, Raphael Wressnig, Il Maniscalco Maldestro. He has opened concerts for: Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Charlie Musselwhite, Fabio Treves, Bandabardò, Osaka Monaurail, Paul Brown & His All Star Band, Bobby Rush, David Hudson, Latimore, Toni Green, Cesareo (Elio e le Storie Tese), Kutso, Cecco e Cipo.