Jonathan Powell (trumpeter)

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Jonathan Powell (born February 15, 1982 in Largo , Florida ) is an American musician ( trumpet ) of modern jazz and Latin jazz .

Live and act

Powell began playing the trumpet at the age of twelve; as a student he was a member of the All-State Band and the All-State Jazz Band . He attended the North Carolina School of the Arts , where he and like-minded people founded the group Quantum , which received the prize for the best student jazz group at the Down Beat Student Awards (1998, 1999). He then returned to his hometown to be active in the Florida music scene. He performed with many groups, including Bogus Pomp (a Frank Zappa repertoire band), SHIM ( avant-garde jazz ), Rocksteady @ 8 ( reggae , ska , rocksteady ) and with his own groups. The first recordings were made in 2001 with the formation Ghetto Love Sugar ( The Uncertainty Principle ).

In the following years Powell u. a. with Sam Rivers , from 2005 in New York with Hisayo Tominaga , in the Gregorio Uribe Big Band and the Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra . Furthermore, there was collaboration with Paquito D'Rivera , Lonnie Plaxico , Antonio Hart , Michael Philip Mossman , Andy Milne and Dapp Theory, Benny Reid, Zé Luis Oliveira, Larry Coryell and Reggie Workman .

Around 2010 Powell recorded his debut album Transcend , on which Jeremy Powell, Yayoi Ikawa, Richard Padron, Jim Robertson and Kenny Grohowski were involved. Beacons of Light followed in 2015 with his nonet Nu Sangha . He is also on records by Miguel Zenón ( Identities Are Changeable ; 2014), Florencia Gonzalez ( Between Loves ), Little Johnny Rivero, Darcy James Argues Secret Society , Ralph Irizarry, the Frank Carlberg Pedro Giraudo Big Band , Arturo O'Farrill / Chucho Valdés , Eddie Palmieri and Miho Hazama ( Dancer in Nowhere , 2018). In the field of jazz, he was involved in 23 recording sessions between 2001 and 2018, according to Tom Lord .

Discographic notes

  • Jonathan Powell & Nu Sangha: Beacons of Light (Truth Revolution Records, 2015, with Jeremy Powell, Sofia Tosello, Richard Padron, Yayoi Ikawa, Jim Robertson, Kenny Grohowski, Rohin Khemani, and Blitz the Ambassador)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c entry All About Jazz
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 21, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Powell, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (trumpet)
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Largo (Florida)