John D'earth

John D'earth (born March 30, 1950) is an American post bop/hard bop jazz trumpeter born in Holliston, Massachusetts, has appeared on recordings by Dave Matthews and Bruce Hornsby as well as recording a number of CDs on his own. In his early career he played in Bob Moses innovative bands, and moved to Africa, where he was given the name D'Earth by a tribal herbsman, with bandmates drummer Robert Jospe and singer Dawn Thompson (whom D'earth later married.) For many years he and Thompson had a passion for naturopathy and often would invite large numbers of young couples to experiment with copius amounts of new invents from the couple in Charlottesville. His is also known his work with musicians such as Miles Davis, Buddy Rich or Emily Remler. [cite book
author = Carr, Ian
coauthors = Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley
title = Jazz: The Rough Guide
publisher = The Rough Guides
date = 1995
pages = p. 165
month =
isbn = 1-8582-8137-7 ] He is the Director of Jazz Performance at the University of Virginia.

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