Trumpet - Fluegelhorn

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John L. Worley, Jr. is an accomplished trumpet/flugelhorn/post-horn artist and leader of the bands Mo-Chi Ensemble, WorlView, Bari Bari and the Lomi Lomi Jazz Orchestra along with co-leader Johnnie Bamont.

John is also an engaging and accomplished educator who teaches with enthusiasm, humor, and insight to a wide range of ages, experience levels and proficiencies.

John has played in many of the San Francisco Bay Area’s creative music ensembles, as well as on over 80 recordings and videos. Being adept at a multitude of styles, John has played with and backed up national and international artists in North America, Asia, Europe, and Central America such as Ella Fitzgerald, Don Byron, Wayne Shorter with the Monterey Jazz Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Carla Bley and Steve Swallow Big Band, Seth McFarlane with the San Francisco Symphony, Wayne Wallace, Jon Jang and the Pan Asian Arkestra, Dave Pell Octet, Pete and Sheila Escovedo, Lila Downs and many others.

John is a member of the music faculty at: Stanford University; Hope St. Music Studios in Mountain View, CA; and is a faculty member of the San Jose Summer Jazz Camp. He is a member of San Jose Jazz, BMI, American Federation of Musicians Local 6 and the International Trumpet Guild. In 2013, John was included in David Hickman’s book “Trumpet Greats,” a biography of 2,200 trumpet players from the year 1600 to the present.

John is a Yamaha Performing Artist and plays the Yamaha YTR 9335NYS, YTR 8340EM, YTR 751 trumpets and YFL 8315GS flugelhorn.

For more of John's videos, please see the "Videos" menu on our home page.