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Music and Jazz 101: How to Listen and Learn A unique opportunity to have an interactive experience with jazz musician and composer John D’earth. He aims to demystify music and to inspire new ways of teaching music to children and adults. He believes music students should be empowered to create and find tools for self-expression. D’earth's career in music is documented in the Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. He has recorded as a leader for Vanguard Records, ENJA Records DoubleTime Jazz, and his own Cosmology label. April 29, 2005 |
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About the Speaker John D'earth As a teenager, John D'earth studied with saxophonist Boots Mussulli (Stan Kenton, Charlie Ventura, Teddy Wilson,) with John Coffey (principal trombonist BSO) and arranging with Thad Jones. He attended Harvard University and, later, moved to New York City where he studied with Carmine Caruso, Vince Penzarella and Richie Beirach. D'earth has performed and recorded internationally and appeared on over fifty CDs. He has composed and arranged music for Bruce Hornsby, The Dave Matthews Band, The San Diego, Atlanta, Richmond and Roanoke Symphony Orchestras, The University of Virginia Jazz Ensemble, The Charlottesville-Albemarle Youth Orchestra and many others. Among his original works are the five movement Natural Bridge, commissioned by the Kandinsky Trio and Suite Rakalam, in four movements, for string septet, trumpet and drumset commissioned by the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival. He recently completed a two hour score for five instruments to be performed live with Mernau's 1926 silent film masterpiece, Faustus. D'earth has recorded as a leader for Vanguard Records, ENJA Records, DoubleTime Jazz and his own Cosmology label. He is a co-founder of the Free Bridge Quintet, is the music director for the Thompson D'earth Band, leads the Charlottesville Swing Orchestra, the jazz/poetry project and his own quartet/quintet. As the Director of Jazz Performance at the University of Virginia Mr. D'earth teaches improvisation, jazz trumpet and directs the UVA Jazz Ensemble. As a jazz musician and composer he is interested in the nexus of composition and improvisation and in working with musicians who are committed to pushing their own boundaries in both of these areas. John D'earth's career in music is documented in the recently published Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz, (Oxford Press) by Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler. |
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