John LaBarbera (born November 10, 1945) is a trumpeter and arranger who worked with the Buddy Rich Orchestra during the late 1960s.

Early life

LaBarbera was born in

Warsaw, New York Warsaw is a town in Wyoming County, in the U.S. state of New York. The population was 5,064 at the 2010 census. It is located approximately 37 miles east southeast of Buffalo and approximately 37 miles southwest of Rochester. The town may h ...

, on November 10, 1945. His home town is

Mount Morris, New York Mount Morris is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in Livingston County, New York, Livingston County, New York (state), New York, United States. The population was 4,465 at the 2010 census. The town and village were named after Rob ...

. He studied music with "his father and at Potsdam (New York) State Teachers College (1962–63) and the Berklee School of Music (1964–65)".

Later life and career

LaBarbera joined

Buddy Rich Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time. Rich was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York ...

's band in 1968, but moved to

Buddy DeFranco Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (February 17, 1923 – December 24, 2014) was an Italian-American jazz clarinetist. In addition to his work as a bandleader, DeFranco led the Glenn Miller Orchestra for almost a decade in the 1960s and ...

's Glenn Miller Band later that year, before rejoining Rich in 1971. He started arranging when with DeFranco, and continued with Rich. "In the 1980s and 1990s he worked principally as a composer and an arranger, supplying new scores for college and high-school big bands and fulfilling commissions for films, television, and commercials". In the area of jazz education, he "directed jazz ensembles at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, from 1988 to 1991 and then joined the faculty in the jazz studies program at the University of Louisville". His ''On the Wild Side'' was nominated for a Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Grammy award in 2004.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:LaBarbera, John People from Mount Morris, New York 1945 births Living people American jazz musicians American jazz trumpeters American male trumpeters Jazz musicians from New York (state) 21st-century trumpeters 21st-century American male musicians American male jazz musicians