John D'earth

John D' Earth ( born March 30, 1950 in Holliston, Massachusetts, John D' earth) is an American jazz trumpeter and composer.

D' Earth played at the beginning of his career at Boots Must Ulli. He studied English literature at Harvard, where he worked as an assistant. Then he moved to New York City where he studied with Carmine Caruso, Vince Penzarella and Richie Beirach. With drummer Robert Jospe and singer Dawn Thompson, who married D' Earth later, he founded the formation Cosmology ( self-titled album in 1977 with Collin Walcott and poor Donelian ). He then worked in a u Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra, The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band ( with whom he accompanied Miles Davis at Montreux ), with Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, Klaus König (Reviews, 1995), Bob Moses, Gunter Hampel, Harvie Swartz and Emily Remler ( Transitions, 1984) together. 1989 was his first album under his own name, One Bright Glance at which he played with John Abercrombie, Marc Johnson and drummer Howard Curtis for the Enja label. In 2000, D' Earth recorded the album Restoration Comedy ( Double Time ) with Mulgrew Miller, Jerry Bergonzi and Mike Richmond.

D' Earth is as a university teacher Head of Jazz Performance at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. He also works with the Free Bridge Quintet, the Charlottesville Swing Orchestra and a private quartet / quintet and his wife with the Thompson D' Earth Band.

D' Earth works include music for the Kronos Quartet, the Kandinsky Trio, the Charlottesville Chamber Festival, Bruce Hornsby, the Dave Matthews Band as well as for various symphony orchestras. Among his works is the five-part Natural Bridge, the suite Rakalam for Strings septet, trumpet and drums, and music for the Murnau silent film Faust - a German folk tale (1926 )