John Eckert

John Wallace Eckert (born March 13, 1939 in New York City ) is an American jazz musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn , piccolo trumpet , trombone ).

Eckert grew up in New Jersey and played the trumpet in the school band. Influenced by the music of Shorty Rogers and Chet Bakers , he came to jazz and founded a jazz band while he was still in high school. He received his Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester , North Texas State University and the Teacher's College of Columbia University in 1961 and has since worked in the bands of Stan Kenton , Si Zentner , Buddy Morrow (1964– 66) and Maynard Ferguson (1966/67); From 1965 to 1970 he played in the American Brass Quintet (album of the same name on MPS, 1969). He also worked with the jazz rock band Ten Wheel Drive ( Brief Replies , 1970), Eumir Deodato ( Whirlwind , 1974), Simon & Garfunkel ( Concert in Central Park , 1981), Louie Bellson , Benny Goodman , Gerry Mulligan , in the Sam Jones - Tom Harrell -Big Band, from 1984 in the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra and in the Bill Warfield Big Band. From the late 1980s he was a member of Benny Carter's American Jazz Orchestra and the Loren Schoenberg Jazz Orchestra; from 1989 he played with Buck Clayton . He can also be heard on recordings by Michael Mantler , Paul Desmond , Johnny Hammond , Jimmy Knepper , Lee Konitz , Esther Phillips , Bobby Short , Leon Thomas and Chris Williamson. In the field of jazz, he was involved in 81 recording sessions between 1959 and 2015.

Web links

^ The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 , edited by Andy Gregory. Europa Publications Taylor & Francis, 2002, p. 152
↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 7, 2017)

personal data
SURNAME	Eckert, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Eckert, John Wallace (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz musician (trumpet, flugelhorn, also piccolo trumpet, trombone)
DATE OF BIRTH	March 13, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City