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Duane Eubanks

Duane Eubanks simmers. Percolates. The jazz trumpeter/ composer/arranger/producer is a multi-talented force whose fiery blasts and sweet distinctive sound carry his horn into a musical space that defies categorization. There’s a gritty soul and passion that emphatically captures his Philadelphia roots on his most recent pair of albums as a bandleader: “Things of that Particular Nature” (2015-Sunnyside) and “DE3-Live at Maxwell’s (2016-Sunnyside).

“Duane is one of my all-time favorite brass men. One of the most honest musicians I've come across. He plays from the heart, coming from such a rich musical family tree." Roy Hargrove - Grammy Award winning trumpeter.

Duane studied jazz in master classes at Temple University with the legendary Dr. Billy Taylor. He cut to the chase and headed to New York. He was tapped by the great pianist Mulgrew Miller to join his ensemble, Wingspan. Acclaimed double-bassist/bandleader Dave Holland invited Duane to play with his big band on a pair of Grammy award winning albums. Eubanks became a hotly sought-after horn. He recorded and played with Elvin Jones, John Hicks, Curtis Fuller, Louis Hayes, Randy Brecker, Avery Sharpe and Nicholas Payton.

Jazz is his turf. His bloodline. That bloodline began with his mother, pianist Vera Eubanks. She was the illustrious Kenny Barron’s first piano teacher. His brothers are celebrated trombonist Robin Eubanks and guitarist Kevin Eubanks, the former leader of the “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” band. Legendary pianist Ray Bryant is his uncle.

Yet, his jazz bloodline isn’t a border, but a gateway where he crossed over to play and record with Alicia Keys, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Wu-Tang Clan, Freedom Williams, and Kirk Franklin. He has played the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center as well as toured throughout Europe, Japan, and the Middle-East.

"I Love Duane's playing! He means those notes. You hear that BADD Philly Legacy! Proudly all up in there!" Wallace Roney - Grammy Award winning trumpeter.

The Philadelphia sound. Home to Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown. That’s where it all began for Duane. He began playing trumpet at 11 but didn’t consider music as a career until college. While studying for a business degree at the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, Duane joined the university’s jazz band. He became a prominent brass component and jump started himself into opportunities to play with jazz VIPs Stanley Turrentine, Shirley Scott, Charles Fambrough and Clark Terry.

He performed admirably in master classes with Wynton Marsalis. Two years of private lessons with famed trumpeter Johnny Coles began Duane’s parallel interest in jazz as both a musician and educator. His first recording as a trumpeter came on brother Robin’s deft trombone session: “4: JJ/Slide, Curtis & Al”. Duane’s pungent sound and impassioned playing led to his own acclaimed debut, “My Shining Hour” (1999), followed up by “Second Take” two years later.

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Mark Lockett: Swings & Roundabouts

Read "Swings & Roundabouts" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The “free jazz" movement has come a long way since its introduction mid-20th century by pathfinders like Tadd Dameron, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, Muhal Richard Abrams, Andrew Cyrille, Lester Bowie and their kin. The music, which favors free expression in lieu of customary chordal, rhythmic and harmonic precepts, was at times puzzling, even painful, to unscramble. Over the years, free jazz has tempered to some extent its revolutionary aspects, one example of ...

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Five years ago, the annual Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition named Deelee Dubé its first British winner and (2016) Sassy Award recipient, landing Dubé a spot at the Montreal International Jazz Festival and recording contract for this Concord Records debut. Trying Times marks a major label debut, but Deelee Dubé is no artistic novice. She started violin lessons when she was four and put together her first band when she was fourteen. Her 2016 release Tenderly was produced ...

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Warriors of the Wonderful Sound: Soundpath

Read "Soundpath" reviewed by Mark Corroto


If we alter President John F. Kennedy's 1962 moon spaceflight speech just a bit, it easily fits the big band adaptation of Muhal Richard Abrams' magnum opus Soundpath, “We choose to perform this composition not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept." Accepting the challenge was band leader Bobby Zankel and ...

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Warriors of the Wonderful Sound: Soundpath

Read "Soundpath" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala


Nel 2011 il sassofonista di Filadelfia Bobby Zankel, leader della big band The Warriors of the Wonderful Sound e promotore di laboratori di musica contemporanea, propose a Muhal Richard Abrams un lavoro compositivo che avrebbe dovuto essere affidato alla band, con la direzione dello stesso pianista. Operazioni di questo tipo erano già state realizzate da Zankel negli anni precedenti con le musiche per big band di Julius Hemphill, dirette da Marty Ehrlich, poi con composizioni di Rudresh Mahanthappa e Steve ...

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Soundpath

Read "Soundpath" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


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Read "New Life" reviewed by Jack Bowers


After what Canadian-born guitarist Peter Leitch has been through in the last eight years, it's little wonder he named the ensemble he now leads the New Life Jazz Orchestra. Diagnosed in 2012 with stage 4 lung cancer, Leitch faced the choice of throwing in the proverbial towel or undergoing career-ending cancer treatment. He chose the latter, reluctantly setting aside his instrument of choice and continuing his musical career as a composer, arranger and conductor of an orchestra whose library consists ...

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DE3 (Duane Eubanks, Eric McPherson, Dezron Douglas): Live at Maxwell's

Read "Live at Maxwell's" reviewed by Stefano Merighi


Il trio DE3 (Eubanks-Douglas-McPherson) è toccato dalla grazia in questa incisione dal vivo al Maxwell's di New York. Già la formula di tromba-contrabbasso-batteria è piuttosto rara, vengono in mente al volo Roy Campbell e Kirk Knuffke, ma è la lingua comune fra i tre che si sprigiona già nell'esordio di “Brainfreeze" a catturare senza fatica. Il tema di derivazione hard bop è come raffreddato dall'analisi minuta delle singole frasi, carezzevoli senza essere dolciastre, seduttive con brio. Ed ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Duane Eubanks' birthday today!

Duane Eubanks simmers. Percolates. The jazz trumpeter/ composer/arranger/producer is a multi-talented force whose fiery blasts and sweet distinctive sound carry his horn into a musical space that defies categorization. There’s a gritty soul and passion that emphatically captures his Philadelphia roots on his most recent pair of albums as a bandleader: “Things of that Particular Nature” (2015-Sunnyside) and “DE3-Live at Maxwell’s (2016-Sunnyside). “Duane is one of my all-time favorite brass men. ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Duane Eubanks' birthday today!

Duane Eubanks simmers. Percolates. The jazz trumpeter/ composer/arranger/producer is a multi-talented force whose fiery blasts and sweet distinctive sound carry his horn into a musical space that defies categorization. There’s a gritty soul and passion that emphatically captures his Philadelphia roots on his most recent pair of albums as a bandleader: “Things of that Particular Nature” (2015-Sunnyside) and “DE3-Live at Maxwell’s (2016-Sunnyside). “Duane is one of my all-time favorite brass men. ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Duane Eubanks' birthday today!

Duane Eubanks simmers. Percolates. The jazz trumpeter/ composer/arranger/producer is a multi-talented force whose fiery blasts and sweet distinctive sound carry his horn into a musical space that defies categorization. There’s a gritty soul and passion that emphatically captures his Philadelphia roots on his most recent pair of albums as a bandleader: “Things of that Particular Nature” (2015- Sunnyside) and “DE3-Live at Maxwell’s” (2016-Sunnyside). “Duane is one of my all-time favorite brass ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Duane Eubanks' birthday today!

Duane Eubanks simmers. Percolates. The jazz trumpeter/ composer/arranger/producer is a multi-talented force whose fiery blasts and sweet distinctive sound carry his horn into a musical space that defies categorization. There’s a gritty soul and passion that emphatically captures his Philadelphia roots on his most recent pair of albums as a bandleader: “Things of that Particular Nature” (2015- Sunnyside) and “DE3-Live at Maxwell’s” (2016-Sunnyside). “Duane is one of my all-time favorite brass ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Source: Michael Ricci


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Jazz Bridge on the Waterfront with Duane Eubanks on June 3 at 1pm

Jazz Bridge on the Waterfront with Duane Eubanks on June 3 at 1pm

Source: Suzanne Cloud

Jazz Bridge, Philadelphia’s award-winning nonprofit devoted to helping musicians in crisis, will have a joyous celebration of jazz that will directly benefit the essential work that Jazz Bridge has been doing for many years: assisting our area's jazz and blues musicians and vocalists in need and in times of crisis. This important event will be held on Sunday, June 3rd in the top floor ballroom and terrace of the Philadelphia Independence Seaport Museum, 211 S. Columbus Boulevard—from 1:00 to 5:00pm, ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Source: Michael Ricci


Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Duane Eubanks' birthday today!

Philadelphia native and trumpeter Duane Eubanks has performed everywhere from the Hollywood Bowl to Birdland to the Kennedy Center, in addition to touring throughout Europe and Japan. He is a member of Dave Holland’s two time Grammy Award winning big band and the late Mulgrew Miller\'s band, Wingspan. Duane was born into a family of musically gifted talent. His mother... Read more.

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Duane Eubanks' birthday today!

Philadelphia native and trumpeter Duane Eubanks has performed everywhere from the Hollywood Bowl to Birdland to the Kennedy Center, in addition to touring throughout Europe and Japan. He is a member of Dave Holland’s two time Grammy Award winning big band and the late Mulgrew Miller\'s band, Wingspan. Duane was born into a family of musically gifted talent. His mother... Read more.

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

Jazz Musician of the Day: Duane Eubanks

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All About Jazz is celebrating Duane Eubanks' birthday today! Philadelphia native and trumpeter Duane Eubanks has performed everywhere from the Hollywood Bowl to Birdland to the Kennedy Center, in addition to touring throughout Europe and Japan. He is a member of Dave Holland’s two time Grammy Award winning big band and the late Mulgrew Miller\'s band, Wingspan. Duane was born into a family of musically gifted talent. His mother... Read more. Place our Musician of the Day widget on your ...

Primary Instrument

Trumpet

Location

Philadelphia

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Vibe Check

Joe Baione Music
2024

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Swings & Roundabouts

Thick Records
2023

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New Life

Jazz House
2021

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Soundpath

Clean Feed Records
2020

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Trying Times

Concord Music Group
2020

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Live at Maxwell's

Sunnyside Records
2017

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