Birth name John Trevor Clark Genres Jazz Labels Hidden Meaning Music | Instruments French horn Role Composer · hmmusic.com Origin Rochester, New York Name John Clark Albums Soul of an Angel | |
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Born September 21, 1944 (age 79)
Brooklyn, New York, USA ( 1944-09-21 ) Occupation(s) Musician, Composer, Teacher Similar People Pete Levin, Bob Stewart, Dave Bargeron, Lew Soloff, Mark Egan | ||
Education University of Rochester | ||
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John Clark is an American jazz horn player and composer.
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Biography
John Clark was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Rochester, New York. In 1966 he received a B.A.from the University of Rochester, where he also studied horn with Verne Reynolds at the Eastman School of Music. From 1967 until 1971 he played in the United States Coast Guard Band. Clark received a M.M. degree (with honors) from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1973. He studied composition and improvisation with Jaki Byard, Ran Blake, and George Russell; and horn with James Stagliano, Thomas Newell, and Paul Ingraham. In 1991 he received a patent for the "hornette," an instrument with the same range as a French Horn but with a forward-facing bell for greater projection. He taught at the State University of New York at Purchase from 2001 until 2008. He is now on faculty at Manhattan School of Music.
Performance work
Clark has performed or recorded with a wide variety of musicians, including in jazz: Gary Bartz, Carla Bley, Ornette Coleman, Gil Evans, John Faddis, Johnny Griffin, Dave Grusin, Jerome Harris, Jim Hall, Jimmy Heath, Anthony Jackson, Leroy Jenkins, Howard Johnson, Oliver Lake, Joe Lovano, Pat Metheny, Grachan Moncur, Gerry Mulligan, Jaco Pastorius, Rachel Z, Paquito D'Rivera, Mike Richmond, John Scofield, Frank Sinatra, Lew Soloff, Spyro Gyra, David Taylor, Toots Thielemans, the Turtle Island String Quartet, McCoy Tyner, Glen Velez, Paul Winter Consort, Akiko Yano, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
Outside of jazz, he has worked with the Aspen Wind Quintet, Ashford and Simpson, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Fugees, Isaac Hayes, Billy Joel, B. B. King, LL Cool J, Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Diana Ross, Carly Simon, Sting, Speculum Musicae, and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
He has performed as a studio musician for many films, including Mission to Mars, Fargo, and Pocahontas.
Awards
As leader
As sideman
With Gil Evans
With Leroy Jenkins
With Dave Grusin
With Billy Harper
With Jimmy Heath
With Jimmy Knepper
With Joe Lovano
With Bob Stewart
With Sting
With Stanley Turrentine