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Walter White

Walter White has been an in-demand trumpet player for over 30 years. He's played live and in the studio with many of the top names in the industry, is a band leader, educator, commissioned composer, arranger, studio owner, engineer, and music producer. Walter is noted for his rich sound, precision, and range on trumpet and flugelhorn. Known for quick turn-around time in the studio, effortless sight-reading, thinking quickly on feet, creating arrangements on the spot, finding solutions. Currently lead trumpet for Mahattan Jazz Orchestra directed by David Matthews, past associations includes the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Arturo Sandoval, Mingus Big Band, Bob James, The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Maynard Ferguson. Walter's groups include Walter White & Small Medium @ Large, The Walter White Jazz Quartet, The Beige Trio (with guitarist Steve Brown), Atlantic Bridge, IFUNU (jazz fusion). Walter is Yamaha Artist and Clinician and has held master classes at leading schools across the united States and abroad, most recently at the International trumpet Guild, Conservatorio Superior de Música de La Coruña (Spain), and as Artist-in-residence at Rutgers University. As a studio owner, composer, and arranger, Walter has produced, recorded, and written music for a wide variety of projects from woodwind quartets to big band to full symphony orchestra

Mingus Big Band at the Newman Center

by Geoff Anderson
April 28, 2023

Mingus Big Band Newman Center Denver, Colorado April 6, 2023 The Mingus Big Band is serious business. Charles Mingus was a serious composer and musician. The band itself is serious about presenting Mingus' music. And the lineup of musicians is just as serious as all of the above. (See ...

Walter White: BB XL

by Chris M. Slawecki
January 21, 2021

Born in a musical family near Detroit and classically trained at Juilliard, trumpet and flugelhorn player Walter White keeps a hectic schedule as leader of Atlantic Bridge, the Walter White Jazz Quartet, Walter White & Small Medium @ Large, and of the fusion ensemble IFUNU; as a member of the Beige Trio; and as lead trumpet ...

Soul Songs, Mose Songs & COVID Aid for Djibouti

by Chris M. Slawecki
January 9, 2021

Bahama Soul Club Bohemia After Dawn Buyú Records 2020 Soulful original music laced with judicious and striking samples, Bohemia After Dawn serves a textbook example of music that packs an impact larger than the sum of its parts. Written, arranged, produced and performed by Oliver Belz ...

BB XL

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Atlantic Bridge; Blue Rondo a la Turk; Cantaloupe Island; Nica's Dream; Portus Apostoli (Intro); Portus Apostoli; The Way You Look Tonight; My Foolish Heart; Yo Conecto.

West Michigan's Free Weekend-Long Jazz Festival Announces 2016 Lineup

May 18, 2016

GRandJazzFest presented by DTE Energy Foundation has announced the performance lineup for the fifth annual festival being held Saturday, August 20, and Sunday, August 21, at Rosa Parks Circle in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Eleven diverse acts are on tap for West Michigan’s only free, weekend-long jazz festival. The performance lineup: Saturday night headliner / main headline ...

Most Triumphant

By Walter White

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2014

Papo Vasquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours: Detroit, MI, September 1, 2012

by Steve Bryant
September 12, 2012

Papo Vasquez Mighty Pirates TroubadoursDetroit Jazz FestivalDetroit, MISeptember 1, 2012When a musician decides to play Latin,, it is easy for him to get pigeonholed into the Salsa circuit with a little instrumental mambo disguised as Latin jazz thrown in. This isn't the case for trombonist Papo Vasquez who, for the last ...

Stan Kenton Orchestra - DePaul University Jazz Ensemble / Captain Black Big Band / Washington State University

by Jack Bowers
May 27, 2011

Stan Kenton Orchestra / DePaul University Jazz EnsembleDouble Feature, Vol. 1Tantara Productions2010 Some of us are old enough to remember double features, but they were in movie theatres, not concert halls or recording studios, and, as memory serves, were never quite as enchanting or memorable as this ...

Captain Black Big Band: Captain Black Big Band

by Mark F. Turner
April 7, 2011

Pianist Orrin Evans has been on a roll, with the release of a couple of diamond Posi-Tone releases in 2010: Faith in Action -- dedicated to friend and mentor, saxophonist Bobby Watson--and the old school yet highly progressive thinking of The End of Fear , with Tarbaby trio-mates, drummer Nasheet Waits and bassist Eric Revis. But ...