John Douglas
Trumpet
John Douglas is your funk specialist, your acid and Latin jazz star and a seasoned bebop professional. With dexterous ease, he rips the trumpet high notes, caresses the low notes and rocks the melodic scales in between—all without compromise on clarity or tonal quality.
His performance career began while studying at the University of Michigan and expanded into Detroit in the early nineties when he and five others formed the band Jazzheads. The enormous success of Jazzheads’ self-titled debut recording earned the group 1999’s Detroit Music Award for Best Jazz Recording, as well as Best Jazz Group Deserving Wider Recognition and Best Modern Jazz Group, which they would go on to win again in 2002.
John has toured throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe with notable performers including Gladys Knight, Marshall Allen, Kevin Good of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the R&B icons The Chi-Lites.
His own group, the John Douglas Quintet, is known for its powerful sound of funky jazz. The musicians include fellow players Ibrahim Jones on bass, Mike Malis on piano, Kris Kurzawa on guitar and TaJaun “Butter” Hawkins on drums. Together, this group’s sound, skills and stamina indulge the senses, while John provides an insinuating energy that lights up both the stage and the minds of audiences all over the world.