Douglas Purviance

[1] He began his professional career as a member of the Stan Kenton Orchestra, playing bass trombone and tuba from 1975 to 1977.

He settled in New York City in 1977, playing a variety of commercial and jazz trombone jobs and eventually winning a chair in the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra.

He has appeared as an incidental player on hundreds of recordings, notably on Grammy-nominated albums by Joe Henderson and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.

[3] On February 8, 2009, he won a Grammy Award as co-producer in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album category for Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard.

With Dizzy Gillespie With Slide Hampton With Stan Kenton With Mel Lewis With Steve Turre With Vanguard Jazz Orchestra With Gerald Wilson With others

(l-r) Andy McKee, Douglas Purviance, Luis Bonilla, and Michael Marchione listening to playback at Systems II Recording Studio in Brooklyn NY on April 4th, 2014 for Mists: Charles Ives for Jazz Orchestra CD.