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Wayne Bergeron

Wayne Bergeron is enjoying a career as one of the most active players on the Los Angeles scene. With studio dates, International touring, jazz concerts, guest soloist appearances and clinics he has no intention of slowing down.

In 1986 Wayne landed the lead trumpet position with the Maynard Ferguson Band. He can be heard on such MF recordings as "Body & Soul", "Big Bop Nouveau" & "Brass Attitude." Remarking on the talented trumpet player, Maynard Ferguson had this to say during a radio interview: "Wayne is the most musical lead trumpet player I've ever had on my band."

Bergeron's first solo Big Band CD entitled "You Call This A Living?" earned him a Grammy nomination in 2004 for Best Large Jazz Ensemble as well as rave reviews from fans and press worldwide.

As a sideman Wayne has been involved with hundreds of CD projects that include Beyoncé, Michael Buble, Josh Groban, Christina Aguilera, INXS, Michael Bolton, Gwen Stefani, Earth Wind & Fire, The Pussy Cat Dolls, Chicago, Bette Midler, Ray Charles, Diane Reeves, Celine Dion, Diana Krall, Mel Tormé, Barry Manilow, Arturo Sandoval, Robbie Williams, Keeley Smith, Ronnie Milsap, Lee Ann Womack, Lou Rawls, Green Day, The Mars Volta, The Offspring, Bobby Caldwell, Rosemary Cloony, Diane Schuur, Brian Setzer, Joe Cocker, Kenny G., Eric Marienthal, Dave Koz, David Benoit, Warren Hill, Tito Puente, and The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.

A partial list of film credits include Superman Returns, Mission Impossible 3, The Guardian, Ice Age 2, (the Meltdown), X-Men 3,The Incredibles, Spiderman 2, Fantastic Four, Pink Panther, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Team America, National Treasure, The Life Aquatic, Friday Night Lights, Anchorman, White Chicks, The Notebook, The Day After Tomorrow, 3 Musketeers, Starsky and Hutch, Pirates of the Caribbean, Paycheck, Hollywood Homicide, Legally Blonde 2, Drumline, Catch Me if You Can, South Park, Flubber and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

His trumpet solos can be heard on Rocky Balboa, High Crimes, Rounders, Fled, Hey Arnold (the movie), The Mask, Drowning Mona, The Rat Pack, Child Star, Norma Jean and Marilyn, Aladdin King of Thieves, Return of Jafar, Foolproof, and Two Days in the Valley. Bergeron has worked on 300 plus TV & motion picture soundtracks.

Numerous TV credits include shows such as NBC, ESPN & TNT sports themes, Entertainment Tonight Theme, Academy Awards, American Idol (2001-02), Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, Latin Grammy's, Frank Sinatra's 80th B-Day Special, Tony Bennett TV Special, Jerry Lewis Telethon, Jeopardy, America's Funniest Home Videos, Emperor's New School, Family Guy, Futurama, Buzz Lightyear, Hercules, Lloyd in Space, Hey Arnold and Promised Land.

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Album Review

Jeremy Cohen: Raymond Scott Reimagined

Read "Raymond Scott Reimagined" reviewed by Walter Atkins


Raymond Scott Reimagined is an engaging collaborative project with Quartet San Francisco, Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band and the Grammy winning acapella group Take 6 on two tracks. The album is a thoughtful and stylish interpretation of Raymond Scott's legacy. It is also interspersed with audio tidbits featuring Scott's singular musical approaches. The album kicks off with the enticing “Powerhouse," familiar to anyone who has watched a Warner Bros Looney Tunes cartoon. “Toy Trumpet" is a tasty composition ...

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Brian Eisenberg Jazz Orchestra: Pain & Beauty

Read "Pain & Beauty" reviewed by Edward Blanco


A religious man at heart, composer/band leader and producer Brian Eisenberg leads an 18-piece big band (The Brian Eisenberg Jazz Orchestra) on a personal musical exploration on the meaning of love through the perspective of what may be beautiful, and what may seem hurtful on the very introspective and challenging Pain & Beauty. The album, as he writes, “is dedicated to that ideal of genuine love...painful yet, beautiful love." Eisenberg sets the musical bar quite high on such lofty and ...

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Richard Williams: Hollywood Christmas

Read "Hollywood Christmas" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


Ready or not, Christmas music is on the way. And this is Christmas music, old school. Do you remember The Andy Williams Christmas Album? Then, as the old joke goes, there may be fire in the hearth, but snow on the roof, because that was 1963, at least the first version. This recording, for sure, is a walk down memory lane and will produce a lot of nostalgia in listeners of a certain age. For some folks, that ...

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Dave Slonaker: Convergency

Read "Convergency" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


In December 1910, Virginia Woolf once observed, human character changed and, along with it, so did everything else. Politics, society, religion, sex, all of it, she thought, would leave the ancien regime behind. And, to a point, she was correct. Within a few years, the old world was gone, swept away by war and revolution. It was not coming back. Ever. Somehow, listening to the marvelous musical products of modern big bands, Woolf seems oddly relevant. The level ...

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Chris Walden: Missa Iubileum Aureum: Golden Jubilee Jazz Mass

Read "Missa Iubileum Aureum: Golden Jubilee Jazz Mass" reviewed by Jack Bowers


First things first: there is no doubt that Chris Walden's reverential Missa Iubileum Aureum ("Golden Jubilee Jazz Mass") is beautifully written and wonderfully performed by the LMR Jazz Orchestra, St. Dominick's Schola Cantorum and cantors Kurt Elling and Tierney Sutton. Is it jazz? That is another question, one not so easily answered. While there are elements of jazz, they are incidental and generally overshadowed by the more doctrinal aspects of what is essentially an homage to devotion and piety. And ...

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Dave Slonaker Big Band: Convergency

Read "Convergency" reviewed by Jack Bowers


While big-band albums generally differ, sometimes widely, in tone and temperament, there are definitive criteria by which every one may be evaluated--arrangements, performers, sound quality, sequencing and, above all, the elusive but imperative swing quotient. Dave Slonaker checks all those boxes and more on Convergency, a superlative successor to his excellent Grammy-nominated debut album, Intrada, released in 2013. To begin with, Slonaker, best known as a film and television composer, is an excellent big-band writer and arranger, ...

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Dave Slonaker Big Band: Convergency

Read "Convergency" reviewed by Troy Dostert


Composer/conductor Dave Slonaker probably won't qualify as “prolific," at least based on recorded output alone, as he spends a lot of his time behind the scenes in film and television work—but one must appreciate the level of craftsmanship that he brings to his big band projects. His debut release, Intrada (Origin Records, 2014), received a well-earned Grammy nomination, and his sophomore effort is no less accomplished, with the well-designed compositions and outstanding ensemble work that justify all the attention it ...

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One of the World's Most-Recorded Trumpet Players Visits the Lied Center; Wayne Bergeron with the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra Performs October 15 at 7:30PM

One of the World's Most-Recorded Trumpet Players Visits the Lied Center; Wayne Bergeron with the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra Performs October 15 at 7:30PM

Source: Lied Center for Performing Arts

Lincoln, NE—Come experience a night of world-class music as Wayne Bergeron teams up with the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra (NJO). Expect nothing less than swinging jazz, amazing ensembles, as well as one-liners, inside jokes and general hilarity from Bergeron in this concert featuring “Waynard plays Maynard." Ed Love, music director for NJO, says that “[the NJO is] thrilled to play with Wayne, a real legend among trumpet players and jazz lovers. His work with Maynard Ferguson's band endeared him to people ...

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New Holiday Album from Wayne Bergeron with the After Hours Brass

New Holiday Album from Wayne Bergeron with the After Hours Brass

Source: All About Jazz

Celebrate this holiday season with Wayne Bergeron's new CD, Music & Mistletoe.

This “Pint-Sized Big Band" redefines classics such as “Jingle Bells", “We Three Kings" and “Santa Baby". And introducing a brand new classic, “Christmas Is The Warmest Day Of The Year" featuring jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton.

Music & Mistletoe is now available at WayneBergeron.com and CD Baby.

About Wayne Bergeron Wayne Bergeron is enjoying a career as one of the most active players on the Los Angeles ...

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Trumpeter Wayne Bergeron's Live Performance in JUNE!

Trumpeter Wayne Bergeron's Live Performance in JUNE!

Source: All About Jazz


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Wayne Bergeron featured with Rich Wetzel's Groovin Higher Jazz Orchestra - Sat May 25th@Broadway Center

Wayne Bergeron featured with Rich Wetzel's Groovin Higher Jazz Orchestra - Sat May 25th@Broadway Center

Source: All About Jazz

Wayne Bergeron “Nationally acclaimed trumpeter , special guest Artist”

will be featured with

“Rich Wetzel’s Groovin Higher Jazz Orchestra”

Saturday, May 25th @ 8:00pm

Tacoma’s Broadway Center For The Performing Arts, at The Rialto Theater

John Clayton says, “Wayne is the most amazing sharp shooting, powerful, and swinging lead / feature trumpet player I have ever played with”

Maynard Ferguson says, “Wayne is probably the most musical lead player ever on my band”

$20.00 Ticket – Festival Seating, includes access ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Payin’ My Dues

Self Produced
2023

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Raymond Scott...

ViolinJazz Recordings
2023

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Pain & Beauty

Self Pulished
2023

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What is Hip?

Mango Eater MUSIC
2022

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Convergency

Origin Records
2022

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Missa Iubileum...

Origin Records
2022

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Cutey and the Dragon

From: Raymond Scott Reimagined
By Wayne Bergeron

Toy Trumpet

From: Raymond Scott Reimagined
By Wayne Bergeron

Offertory - The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (feat. Tierney Sutton & Kurt Elling)

From: Missa Iubileum Aureum: Golden...
By Wayne Bergeron

Convergency

From: Convergency
By Wayne Bergeron

The Reset

From: The Reset
By Wayne Bergeron

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