Douglas Purviance


Douglas Purviance is a jazz trombonist. He began his professional career as a member of the Stan Kenton Orchestra, playing bass trombone and tuba from 1975 to 1977. Mostly, he works as a studio session bass trombonist and is not known for improvising.
He graduated from Towson State University in 1975 and obtained a master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music in 1992. 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 was a charter member of the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and has toured extensively with Slide Hampton, Steve Turre, Dizzy Gillespie, and the Mingus Big Band. He has appeared as an incidental player on hundreds of recordings, notably on Grammy-nominated albums by Joe Henderson and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.
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. He worked as co-producer and trombonist on the Grammy-nominated album OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer by the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and in the same roles for the album Mists: Charles Ives for Jazz Orchestra.

Discography

As sideman

With Dizzy GillespieThings to Come Dizzy's Business I'm BeBoppin' Too
With Slide HamptonWorld of Trombones Dedicated to Diz Slide Plays Jobim Spirit of the Horn
With Stan KentonKenton '76 Journey Into Capricorn Live in Europe
With Mel LewisLive in Montreux 20 Years at the Village Vanguard Soft Lights and Hot Music The Definitive Thad Jones To You: A Tribute to Mel Lewis
With Steve TurreSanctified Shells Rhythm Within Steve Turre One4J
With Vanguard Jazz OrchestraLickety Split Thad Jones Legacy Can I Persuade You? The Way Up from the Skies Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard Forever Lasting Overtime Music of Bob Brookmeyer
With Gerald WilsonNew York, New Sound In My Time Monterey Moods Detroit Legacy
With others