Results for "Trumpet"

Jeff Gottwig

Born: November 25, 1955

Jeff Gottwig, a native of the pacific northwest, began his music career on trumpet at eight years of age. In addition to being a student director, his high school experience included concert band, marching band, orchestra, jazz band, and membership in the six time world champion Santa Clara Vanguard drum and bugle corps. He entered the U.S. Army in 1974, serving as a trumpet player/soloist with the 9th Infantry Division Band, Fort Lewis, Washington, the 298th Army Band, Berlin, Germany and the U.S. Army Band Europe, Heidelberg, Germany. After leaving the military in 1980 he moved to Minnesota where he studied at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, receiving his Associates degree in jazz history and performance, and the Bachelor of Science degree in music education, graduating with honors, and completed his Masters in Music Education at the University of St

Steve Enos

Trumpeter Steve Enos serves as Director of Jazz Studies at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) in Cleveland, OH. Steve earned his Bachelor's Degree in Professional Music with a Jazz Performance Emphasis from the Berklee College of Music and his Master's in Music Education from the University of Akron. He also directs the award winning Tri-C JazzFest High School All-Stars and Tri-C JazzFest Summer with the Jazz Masters Program. Steve is a member of the Ernie Krivda Fat Tuesday Big Band and Omnibus Orchestra, Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, and performs in the Playhouse Square Orchestra for their Broadway Series

Satchmo Simms

Les Fanflures Brass Band

Born: January 18, 2007

8 Professional musicians from Toulouse worked on creating their music, inspired by the Jazz Funk Music of New Orleans. The result is a big Gumbo melting pot of latin Jazz funk music from Toulouse !

Brian Switzer

NorCal Jazz director, Brian Switzer, is currently leads the Carlmont Jazz Ensembles as the Asst. Band Director at Carlmont High School in Belmont. . Mr Switzer was the director of the Borel Middle School Jazz Band from 2001 until 2012. The Borel Jazz Band regularly performed 14 concerts a year and was selected to participate in the Next Generation Monterey Jazz Festival (2011, 2010 and 2009), the National PTA Convention (2009), was the featured musical group at the National Elementary School Principal’s Convention at Moscone Center (2004), and earned top marks at the CMEA, Folsom, Campana, Santa Cruz and Fullerton jazz festivals. Mr

Rick Yensen

Voodoo Fuel

Born: January 1, 1976

Voodoo fuel is based in Highlands County, FL, by way of Louisville, KY and Albuquerque, NM and everywhere in between. The McDaniel Brothers, K.P. and Tony, started their music journey at a young age. Their father, Preston was a Big Band musician and played most notably with Billy Vaughn’s Orchestra and Jimmy Lunsford. The brothers began touring in their teens with various bands, putting down the miles and paying their dues. Eventually they moved back to their hometown of Louisville with the commitment to write, play and perform original music. The brothers and other talented musicians formed the bands Splatch and Fatt Labb which stayed true to the brothers’ visions for more than 20 years

Greg Ruvolo Big Band Collective

Born: July 15

Greg is no stranger to the music business. He has performed internationally with such names as Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Gerry Mulligan, Louis Bellson, Woody Herman, Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops, as well as a 30-year career as a NY studio Musician and playing in the pit orchestras of the Broadway Theaters. Our Big Band is a hand picked collection and collaboration of some of the finest musicians I know. These instrumentalists (both men and women) are from different ethnic backgrounds and countries residing here in New York City and each bringing their unique personality and musical experience with them. I like to mix up the age groups as well when considering who to offer a chair to in the band

Paul Giess

Born: March 26, 1988

Paul Giess is a trumpet player, music maker and educator living in Philadelphia. Paul's musical practice is rooted in the jazz tradition, as seen is his debut album "U Suite U", but his taste is adventurous as he looks for ways to bring new perspective to old ideas. Paul shows his commitment to community and music making through his continued dedication to his role as the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Parts and his role making music with people with developmental disabilities at the Center for Creative Works. Pre pandemic, Paul is active in multiple ensembles in the Philadelphia area including Yolanda Wisher’s Afroeaters, Outside Sound, Bitters and Rye Jazz Band, The Abstract Truth, Erik Kramer and Friends, Dr

Seguin

Winner of the 2012 Révélation Jazz Radio-Canada prize, Jacques Kuba Seguin is known for his lyrical as well as his strong modern approach to trumpet playing, Jacques was born and raised in Montreal and fits well its multi-ethnicity. Always reaching for his polish roots Jacques thrives for new ways of approaching the traditional jazz idiom. Inspired by his various collaborations with companies like Cirque du soleil and various pop and classical artists Jacques breaks out from jazz tradition to create the urge for improvisation inside his ensembles. In symbiosis with the expressive bass player Frédéric Alarie, Jacques finds new ways to use the sound of the trumpet as rarely heard before by presenting a program that swings between modernity and tradition. Back in town after touring for two years with the Cirque du Soleil in 150 cities around the world and organizing various European and asian tours with his ODD LOT & Litania projekt ensembles, Jacques Kuba Séguin has established himself as one of Montreal’s most prolific composer, arranger and trumpeter