John Burnett

Trumpeter and big-band head John Burnett attended the Royal Army College of Music as well as the Royal Academy of Music in London, Britain, and led big rings in the U.K. for near twenty years before relocating to Canada in 1980, and following that to Chicago in 1990. In 1996 he became a member of the personnel of radio place WDCB, getting the morning web host from the show EVERYTHING Jazz. In 1999 Burnett produced an orchestra made up of top-notch Chicago jazz music artists, a few of whom acquired played with famous brands Glenn Miller and Barrett Deems and many had been component of Lenny King’s Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra. Comprising five saxes, four trumpets, four trombones, piano, bass, drums and generally at least one vocalist, the orchestra, led by Burnett, specific in 1940s-design big-band golf swing music. A debut record, Swingin’ in the Windy Town, premiered in 2000 by Lakeside Information and highlighted jazz clarinetist Pal DeFranco being a visitor on three monitors. A second discharge, West of Condition Road/East of Harlem, made an appearance in 2008 from Delmark Information, this time around spotlighting trumpeter Randy Sandke.