Pharez Whitted
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Since 1982, jazz trumpeter, composer, and producer Pharez Whitted has performed throughout the United States and overseas, including gigs at the 1988 Presidential Inauguration, The Arsenio Hall Show, The Billboard Music Awards, Carnegie Hall, and the MoTown Music Showcase.
Whitted has performed with such notable jazz giants and popular musicians as Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, George Duke, Kirk Whalum, Elvin Jones, Slide Hampton, John Mellencamp, The Temptations, Roy Meriwether, The O'Jays, Lou Rawls, Ramsey Lewis, and former Tonight Show bassist and classmate Bob Hurst.
Whitted wrote, produced, arranged, and played on his two compact discs for MoTown's Jazz record label, entitled Pharez Whitted and Mysterious Cargo. He also co-produced the MoJazz album People Make the World Go 'Round.
Whitted studied music at DePauw University and went on to earn a master's degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He is currently the director of jazz studies at Chicago State University and continues to play locally, regionally, nationally and internationally, often with Bobby Broom, Ron Perrillo, and Eddie Bayard. Whitted is currently working on his third album, due for release sometime in 2008. He is a United Musical Instruments (UMI) clinician. Whitted is the son of the late singer and bassist Virtue Hampton Whitted and the nephew of trombonist Slide Hampton.
