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Chuck Findley

Chuck Findley is an American session musician. Most widely known as a trumpet player, he also plays other brass instruments such as flugelhorn and trombone. His technical abilities and versatility are renowned even among other session players, with the celebrated session horn player and arranger Jerry Hey saying "Chuck Findley can play anything".

A graduate of Maple Heights High School in Ohio in 1965,and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Findley's first professional work was with the Jimmy Dorsey Big Band before joining the Buddy Rich Band on a world tour. In 1989 he joined the Tonight Show band led by Doc Severinsen. He was also a member of the band on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 1994 to 2001.

A regular collaborator on recordings by artists such as B. B. King and Steely Dan, he has also played and/or recorded with Nancy Sinatra, Miles Davis, Stanley Turrentine, Toto, Pat Boone, Christopher Cross, Jaco Pastorius, James Last, Lee Ritenour, Jackson Browne, George Benson, Luis Miguel, George Harrison, Elton John, Carole King, Rickie Lee Jones, Joni Mitchell, Jose Feliciano, The Rolling Stones, Dionne Warwick, Diane Schuur, Tom Waits, Randy Newman, Tina Turner, Al Jarreau, Sarah Vaughan, Narada Michael Walden, Buddy Rich and many others.

Findley also often collaborates with his brother Bob, another trumpet player.

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Cathy Segal-Garcia: The Jazz Chamber

Read "The Jazz Chamber" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
November 2, 2018

On this album, Cathy Segal-Garcia, a vocalist and educator on the Los Angeles jazz scene, comes up with something special, working with a chamber orchestra and a group of jazz musicians to produce a wide-ranging program that veers from lush romanticism to complex jazz-funk. On much of the disc, Segal-Garcia's thick, classically formal voice, combined with a full string section, presents a lilting hybrid of jazz and light classical music. On first hearing it sounds a bit too ...

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Album Review

Chuck Findley with the Metropole Orchestra: Star Eyes

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2002

Trumpeter Chuck Findley, who’s seen and heard most often these days (evenings) with Kevin Eubanks and the Tonight Show band, recorded this pleasant, even–tempered album some time ago (how long isn’t clear) with the large and always impressive Metropole Orchestra under former conductor Rob Pronk who also wrote all the charts. Findley once shared an album with Bobby Shew ( Trumpets No End, I believe). I couldn’t tell them apart then, and couldn’t do so now, even if Regis were ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Chuck Findley

Source: Michael Ricci
December 13, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Chuck Findley's birthday today!

Performance / Tour

Two Trumpets, No Waiting

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
March 1, 2019

Los Angeles-based trumpeter Chuck Findley was the Naples Philharmonic Jazz Orchestra’s special guest on Wednesday, February 27 as part of the sextet’s 2018-19 concert series. Amid all of the polished playing and musical firepower, he and trumpeter Dan Miller quickly turned the evening into a mutual admiration event at ARTIS-Naples' Daniels Pavilion. That feeling was most apparent as the band tackled Herbie Hancock’s “Cantaloupe Island,” trombonist (and longtime Findley collaborator) Matt Finders’ blues composition “Two Trumpets, No Waiting,” and Findley ...
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