James Peter Dvorak (born December 16, 1948, New York City) is an American

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trumpeter. Dvorak received his bachelor's degree from the

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in 1970 and then relocated to England, where he lived for several decades. In the early 1970s he worked with

Keith Tippett Keith Graham Tippetts (25 August 1947 – 14 June 2020), known professionally as Keith Tippett, was a British jazz pianist and composer. According to AllMusic, Tippett's career "..spanned jazz-rock, progressive rock, improvised and contemporary ...

for the first time; the pair worked together again in the 1980s and 1990s. He played with Brotherhood of Breath from 1970 to 1975 and with a group called Joy around the same time, and played with

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in the middle of the decade. He led his own groups from 1977 to 1982, first Sum Sum (with

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, Alan Skidmore, and Nick Evans), then Dhyana. In the 1980s he worked with

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, Brian Abrahams, Keith Tippett,

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, and Ruthie Smith. In 1989 he joined the group

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, playing with them through most of the 1990s, and also worked with

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and with Marcio Mattos and

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. He was a member of Mujician, again alongside Tippett, from the late 1990s.

References

*"Jim Dvorak". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dvorak, Jim American jazz trumpeters American male trumpeters American emigrants to England Musicians from New York City 1948 births Living people In Cahoots members Jazz musicians from New York (state) 21st-century trumpeters 21st-century American male musicians American male jazz musicians Brotherhood of Breath members