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"John Swana is one of the most exciting trumpeters to arrive for a decade,"
declares Mark Gardner,
co-author of Blackwell's Guide to Recorded Jazz.
Born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, Swana took up
Trumpet at the age of
11. He was drawn to jazz at the age of 17 after hearing Dizzy Gillespie, and the
interest developed into a
passion while he was in college. There he began transcribing the solos of
Freddie Hubbard, Clifford
Brown, Miles Davis, and Tom Harrell.
Swana has performed in the Philadelphia and New York areas with well known jazz
names such as
Don Patterson, Shirley Scott, Mickey Roker, Cecil Payne, Johnny Coles, Ralph
Peterson, Charles
Fambrough, Bobby Watson, Trudy Pitts, Bootsie Barns, Craig Handy, Chris Potter,
Stephen Scott,
Tim Warfield, Eric Alexander, Sam Newsome,Vincent Herring, Uri Caine, Peter
Leitch Ralph Bowen,
and Robin Eubanks. He has also been heard with Freddie Hubbard, Phil Woods,
Ronnie Cuber, Eddie
"Lockjaw" Davis, Clark Terry, Frank Foster, John Faddis, Slide Hampton, J.J.
Johnson, Bob Minzer,
and Charlie Persip as a member of the Joe Sudler Swing Machine, a 16-piece big
band based in
Philadelphia.
John Swana can be heard on recordings with: Benny Golson, Grover Washington Jr.,
Charles Fambrough, Craig Handy, Tito Puente, Bill O'Connell, Lenny White, Ricky
Sabastian, Marlon Simon, Ed Simon, Dave Valentin, Cafe', Art Webb,Adam Holtzman,
Ralph Bowen, Ron Blake, Peter Bernstein, Carl Allen, Mulgrew Miller, Benny
Green, Kenny Barron,Tim Warfield, Lewis Nash, Clarence Penn, Kevin Hays, Chris
McBride, Uri Caine, Peter Leitch, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Ralph Peterson, Bobby
Zankel, and Tom Harrell.