James Burton III

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James Burton III (* around 1980 ) is an American jazz musician ( trombone , composition , also tuba ) of modern jazz and a university teacher .

Live and act

Burton grew up on Long Island; He played American football in NCAA Division I and first prepared for a medical degree at SUNY Stony Brook before he decided to study music and moved to the Hartt School of the University of Hartford , where he earned a Bachelor of Music. He then completed a degree in the jazz program of the Juilliard School , which he completed with a master's degree in 2009 after graduating in 2005. The first recordings were made in 2004 with the Illinois Jacquet Big Band ( Swingin 'Live with Jacquet ). He initially taught as director of the jazz program at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah, before returning to the Juilliard School in 2012 , where he has since been professor of jazz theory and directs the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra . He also teaches at the college of the Manhattan School of Music .

Since the 2010s, Burton has also worked in New York in numerous big band formations and ensembles such as the Ray Charles Orchestra, Jazz at Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra , Vanguard Jazz Orchestra , Lionel Hampton Orchestra, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra, and Roy Hargrove Big Band as well as in the Ghost Bands Duke Ellington Orchestra , Count Basie Orchestra and in the Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band. He also played a. a. with Gerald Wilson , James Moody , Frank Wess , Benny Golson , Jimmy Heath , Tony Bennett , Slide Hampton , Ron Carter ( Great Big Band ) and Christian McBride . He has also worked on TV productions by Rihanna , Usher , Lady Gaga , Anthony Hamilton and Demi Lovato .

Burton also performed the Tony Award musical After Midnight as trombonist and assistant conductor with the Jazz at Lincoln Center All Star Orchestra , and was trombonist and tuba player in the theater orchestra for the Broadway performance of Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed . With Jeremy Pelt , Wayne Escoffery , Xavier Davis , Vicente Archer and Jonathan Blake , Burton recorded the album Black Art Jazz Collective: Presented by the Side Door Jazz Club ( Sunnyside Records ). In 2018 he also played in the Fat Cat Big Band , the Charles Ruggiero Octet and the Andy Ferber Septet. In the field of jazz, he was involved in four recording sessions between 2004 and 2018, according to Tom Lord ; He also worked on Steven Davis ' big band production What Happended to Romance (2015).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b James Burton III. Smalls, February 1, 2019, accessed February 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b entry (Manhattan School of Music) ( Memento from April 23, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Meeting (AllAboutJazz)
  4. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 1, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Burton, James III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1980