Dan Collette (musician)
Daniel "Dan" Collette (born November 21, 1954 in Port Jervis , Orange County (New York) ; † May 8, 2019 in Berlin ) was an American jazz and studio musician ( trumpet , composition ).
Live and act
Collette began playing the trumpet when she was five and graduated from Jersey City State College with a degree in music. After training as a classical trumpeter, he first played in the New York Philharmonic . He then played lead trumpet in many Broadway orchestras (including Cats , Dancin ' and A Chorus Line ) and had a successful career as lead trumpeter for well-known artists on the music scene, including The Rolling Stones (on their albums Undercover and Dirty Work ), also at Machito , The Temptations and Bette Midler , The Manhattan Transfer , Whoopi Goldberg , Angela Lansbury , Julie Andrews , Raquel Welch , Brooke Shields , Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons , The Sopranos , Steve Lawrence , Don Rickles , Nancy Sinatra , Tony Bennett , Johnny Mathis , Angelika Milster , Manfred Krug , Mario Bauzá , Toshiko Akiyoshi , Jimmy Heath , David Sanborn , No Angels , Parliament - Funkadelic , Bootsy Collins , Compay Segundo and many more. He also worked on the soundtracks for the feature films Mambo Kings and Murder Is My Business .
In Germany, where he lived from 1999, he played solo trumpet in the Berlin Jazz Orchestra (of which he was a founding member), in the RIAS Big Band , in the Symphonic Pop Orchestra and in the Orchestra of the Theater des Westens Berlin; also taught at several German schools, including the Berlin Jazz Institute. During his stay in Germany he also organized a tribute concert for the trumpeter and band leader Harry James with the title "I Remember Harry". Collette was the author of Comfort, Command and Control in the Trumpet Section. In the field of jazz, according to Tom Lord , he was involved in six recording sessions between 1994 and 2097, with the Roy Roman Orchestra, the Buddy Rich Big Band , Chico O'Farrill and His Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra and Ann Hampton Callaway ( To Ella with Love ) .
Web links
- Dan Collette at Allmusic (English)
- Dan Collette at Discogs (English)
- Brief portrait at the Berlin Jazz Orchestra
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Dan Collette obituary. Local 802, September 4, 2019, accessed September 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 4, 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Collette, Dan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Collette, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz and studio musician (trumpet) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Port Jarvis , Orange County (New York) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 2019 |
| Place of death | Berlin |