
Yellow Collection, Ladybug Music, 2010.Purple Collection, Ladybug Music, 2011.What We Saw from the Cheap Seats, Regina Spektor, 2012.Tales from The Blue Whale, Endermen, 2012.Jimmy Branly, Jimmy Branly (featuring Abraham Laboriel and Otmaro Ruiz), 2012.Critics’ Choices and other Voices, Jazziz on Disc, 2012.Dectet: Subjects and Compliments, Justin Morell, 2013.A Perfect Contradiction, Paloma Faith, 2014.Original Cities Original Jazz and Chamber Music, Mitch Haupers, 2014.Pelos Ares, Rafael Piccolotto de Lima, Orquestra Urbana, 2016.Metamorphasis, Leon Foster Thomas, 2016.Life, MSM Schmidt (featuring Virgil Donati, Jimmy Haslip, Scott Kinsey, Mike Miller, Oz Noy), 2017.Ahreum Ash Hanyou, Ahreum Ash Hanyou, 2018.Chuck Bergeron), South Florida Jazz Orchestra, 2020 Cheap Thrill: The Music of Rick Margitza (feat.Come Fly With Me (Single), Ledisi, Gregg Field, John Daversa, Patti Austin, Randy Waldman, Willie Murillo, Jeff Driskill, Erik Hughes, and Kate Duhamel, 2021.Oneness – Ek Ong Kar Gong, Trinity Devi, 2015.Harmony – Venus Gong, Trinity Devi, 2015.Europa: Explorations for Large Jazz Ensemble, Frost Concert Jazz Band, Conducted by John Daversa, 2017.Adam Rogers), Frost Concert Jazz Band, Conducted by John Daversa, 2018
Justin Morell Concerto for Guitar and Jazz Orchestra (feat.Shoulder to Shoulder: Centennial Tribute to Women’s Suffrage, Karrin Allyson Sextet, 2019.Jon Batiste, John Daversa, and Harvey Mason) Regina Carter Freedom Band, 2020 Swing States: Harmony in the Battleground (Feat.I), John Daversa Big Band, 2009 (Recorded live in 2000) Shogun Warrior, Plays for Lovers, Shogun Warrior, 2010.
Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album, John Daversa, 2011. Kaleidoscope Eyes: Music of the Beatles, John Daversa, 2016. Wobbly Dance Flower, John Daversa featuring Bob Mintzer, 2017. American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom, John Daversa Big Band featuring DACA Artists, 2018. Cuarentena: With Family at Home, John Daversa Quintet, Cuarentena: With Family at Home, 2020. All Without Words: Variations Inspired by Loren, John Daversa Jazz Orchestra featuring Justin Morell, 2021. His album American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom (BFM Jazz, 2018) won three Grammy Awards at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards: Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, " Don't Fence Me In" won in the Best Improvised Jazz Solo category, and " Stars and Stripes Forever" won in the Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella category. His playing has been featured on film and television, including The Five-Year Engagement, Key and Peele, The King of Queens, and Promised Land. ĭaversa has worked with Moonchild, Fiona Apple, Burt Bacharach, Joe Cocker, Andraé Crouch, Gin, Herbie Hancock, Holiday on Ice, Bob Mintzer Big Band, Renee Olstead, Regina Spektor, Andy Williams, and The Yellowjackets. He regularly performs with the John Daversa Progressive Big Band, John Daversa Small Band, and is a guest conductor and soloist all over the world. Before this appointment, he taught the Jazz Studies Program at California State University, Northridge. He is Chair of Studio Music and Jazz at University of Miami, Frost School of Music and directs the Frost Concert Jazz Band. He also lived in Las Vegas and Sacramento before returning to Los Angeles for high school at Hamilton Academy of Music.ĭaversa has degrees from UCLA, California Institute of the Arts, and a doctorate from USC. The grandson of Italian immigrants, he was born in Los Angeles and moved to Ada, Oklahoma at age 7. Early life ĭaversa is the son of Jay Daversa, trumpeter for Stan Kenton and Los Angeles studio musician, and Mary Ann Daversa, music educator and pianist. John Daversa is an American jazz trumpeter, electronic valve instrument (EVI) player, composer, arranger, conductor, bandleader, producer and educator.