John Daversa

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John Daversa (born October 2, 1972 in Canoga Park , Los Angeles ) is an American jazz musician ( trumpet , electronic valve instrument , composition, arrangement) and big band leader.

John Daversa (2016)

Career

Daversa comes from a musical family; his father played the trumpet with Stan Kenton ; his mother worked with Andy Williams . From an early age he was mainly concerned with music.

Daversa appears regularly with the John Daversa Progressive Big Band , which he founded in 1996, and the John Daversa Small Band ; He has also appeared as a guest conductor and soloist around the world, for example at the Monterey Jazz Festival , the Montreal Jazz Festival , Festival International de Jazz de Montréal , the Playboy Jazz Festival and the Java Jazz Festival. He holds the Chair of Studio Music and Jazz at the University of Miami and leads the Frost Concert Jazz Band .

Daversa worked with Fiona Apple , Burt Bacharach , Joe Cocker , Andraé Crouch , Herbie Hancock , Bob Mintzer Big Band, Renee Olstead , Regina Spektor , Andy Williams and the Yellowjackets . As a studio musician, he has worked in film and television productions such as The Five-Year Engagement , Key and Peele , The King of Queens and the television series Ein Wink des Himmels .

His album Kaleidoscope Eyes: Music of the Beatles (BFM Jazz, 2015), on which a 40-piece orchestra with singers Renee Olstead and Katisse Buckingham revives the songs of the Beatles , received six gold medals at the 2016 Global Music Awards and became Nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 2017 . He received two Grammys in 2019 for the album American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom and for his arrangement of the anthem Stars and Stripes Forever , which he recorded as a political statement together with so-called Dreamers (" DACA Artists").

Discographic notes

  • Live at Catalina’s (Daversafications, 2009)
  • Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album (BFM Jazz, 2011)
  • Artful Joy ( Challenge , 2012)
  • Kaleidoscope Eyes: Music of the Beatles (BFM Jazz, 2015)
  • American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom (2018)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All About Jazz: John Daversa: Bursting Out of LA .
  2. ↑ a b c Daversa, John bio Profiles - Festival Miami - University of Miami . Archived from the original on March 21, 2016.
  3. ↑ All About Jazz: Bob Mintzer Big Band: Get Up! .
  4. ↑ Coming Together: John Daversa Speaks . In: Jazz Speaks .
  5. ↑ John Daversa | Album discography . Accessed December 29, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Daversa, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (trumpeter, arranger, big band leader)
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd October 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Canoga Park , Los Angeles , United States