LONGINEU PARSONS

...has been hailed by critics as one of the world’s finest trumpet players. He is also a master of recorders, flute, percussion, and sings the blues. His music crosses genres and defies classification. It’s jazz, it’s funk, it’s blues, it’s classic, it’s urban, it’s world fusion, it’s good. His music serves as a metaphor for crossing restrictive boundaries that separate people and confine human potential.

AN INTERNATIONAL PERFORMER
Longineu has performed in some thirty countries in North, South and Central America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. His audiences have included such dignitaries as the King of Morocco, the President of Gabon, the Royal Family of the Netherlands, the President of Austria, the U.S. Ambassador to France, and the Royal Family of Monaco.

FESTIVALS AND CONCERTS 
Recent performances include the Jacksonville Jazz Festival (2003), the Pensacola Jazz Festival (2003), Trumpet & Trombone Recital with Wycliff Gordon in West Palm Beach (2002), Brass Ensemble with Pianoseven in Switzerland (2002), Amelia Island Jazz Festival (2001), Les Rendez-vous de l’Erde in Nantes, France (2001), United We Jazzed in West Palm Beach (2001), the Belleayre Music Festival, Satchmo Tribute (2000), the Child of the Sun Festival in Lakeland, FL (2000), the Playboy Festival with the Cannonball Adderley Tribute Band in Hollywood,CA (2000), Jazz al Parque in Bogota, Colombia (2000), the Chicago Jazz Festival with Nancy Wilson (1999), and the JVC Jazz Festival Tribute to Cannonball and Nat Adderley in NYC (1999). He also appeared with Nancy Wilson in 2000 at the Blue Note in Tokyo and at Yoshi’s in Oakland. In August 2002, he was the headline attraction in a jazz concert at the Monticello Opera House (Monticello, Florida) that featured his compositions.
 

 

ILLUSTRIOUS ASSOCIATES
Over his 25-year career, Longineu has shared the stage and recording studio with Cab Calloway, Nat Adderley, Cecil Taylor, Nancy Wilson, Joe Williams, Herbie Mann, Frank Foster, Mal Waldron, Philly Joe Jones, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Sam Rivers, David Murray, Hamiet Bluiett, Billy Harper, Hal Singer, Jimmy Witherspoon, Joseph Jarman, Don Moye, François Lindemann, Manu Dibongo, Pierre Akendengue, Sugar Blue, Wycliff Gordon and many others.

Modern Jazzman
&
Tribal Disorder

Louis
Armstrong
Tribute

Music Samples

Booking

2006 Tour dates:
APRIL 22 Sandestin Wine Festival  Destin, FL
     
AUG 29 The Village of Baytowne Wharf Destin, FL


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