Bio
Douglas Olsen has been a free-lance trumpeter for over 25 years performing jazz and world music. He plays solo and/or lead trumpet with many of New England’s top bands and has also been a featured soloist with Scary Pockets, Iguie Castrillo Latin Jazz Orchestra, Latin Logic, Vibra Tropical, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, USAF Band of Liberty, Smithsonian Masterworks Jazz Orchestra, Berklee College of Music Faculty Bigband, Big Apple Circus, Aretha Franklin, and Little Anthony and the Imperials. Doug has recorded extensively on pop/rock, swing, jazz, and latin CD’s, including: The Brian Thomas/Alex Lee-Clark Bigband, The Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra, The Fernando Huergo Bigband, Felipe Salles’s Interconnections Ensemble, The New World Jazz Composers Octet, A Collective Directive, “Prozac Nation” by Bellevue Cadillac (featured on the “The Sopranos” and “Shallow Hal”), and jazz vocalist Michelle Mailhot’s “A Happy Madness.”
Doug holds the full-time position of Instructor/Lecturer and Director of Jazz Studies at WPI in Worcester, MA and was the Director of Music in Medfield Public Schools for the last 25 years before then. Doug is a very active clinician and guest artist, with appearances at MIT, Berklee, Harvard, Umass Amherst and Dartmouth, WPI, URI, Brandeis, CCRI, and Bridgewater State College. Doug performs regularly with the BTALC Bigband, the John Almark Jazz Orchestra, and with his projects “Latin Bash” and the Doug Olsen Quintet. Please check schedule for new dates!
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