Douglas Purviance

Douglas Purviance (born Turner Station, Maryland, on July 18, 1952) is a jazz trombonist.^[1] He began his professional career as a member of the Stan Kenton Orchestra, playing bass trombone and tuba from 1975 to 1977. Mostly, he works as a studio session bass trombonist and is not known for improvising.

He graduated from Towson State University in 1975 and obtained a master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music in 1992. He settled in New York City in 1977, playing a variety of commercial and jazz trombone jobs and eventually winning a chair in the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. He was a charter member of the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and has toured extensively with Slide Hampton, Steve Turre, Dizzy Gillespie,^[2] and the Mingus Big Band. He has appeared as an incidental player on hundreds of recordings, notably on Grammy-nominated albums by Joe Henderson and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.^[3]

On February 8, 2009, he won a Grammy Award as co-producer in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album category for Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard.^[4] He worked as co-producer and trombonist on the Grammy-nominated album OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer by the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and in the same roles for the album Mists: Charles Ives for Jazz Orchestra.

Discography

With Dee Dee Bridgewater

• Dear Ella (Verve, 1997)

With Michel Camilo

• One More Once (Columbia, 1994)

With Slide Hampton

• World of Trombones (West 54, 1979)

With Tom Harrell

• Time's Mirror (RCA Victor, 1999)

With Joe Henderson

• Big Band (Verve, 1997)

With Christian McBride

• The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue, 2011)

With Gerald Wilson

• New York, New Sound (Mack Avenue, 2003)
• In My Time (Mack Avenue, 2005)
• Monterey Moods (Mack Avenue, 2007)
• Detroit (Mack Avenue, 2009)
• Legacy (Mack Avenue, 2011)

With Various Artists

• Eastwood After Hours (Warner Bros., 1997)

References