John W. Eckert (born March 13, 1939) is an American jazz trumpeter, known primarily as a big band sideman.
He studied with Kenny Dorham in the late-1950s and graduated from the University of Rochester Eastman School of Music in 1961.
In the 1970s he worked with Loren Schoenberg and Lee Konitz, and in the 1980s with Gerry Mulligan, Grover Mitchell, Benny Carter, and the American Jazz Orchestra.
He continued working with Mitchell and Carter into the 1990s, as well as with the legacy orchestras of Buck Clayton and Benny Goodman.
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