Doug Beavers Email and Phone Number

2019 GRAMMY® Winner (Producer, Spanish Harlem Orchestra) Doug Beavers has been hailed by critics and fellow musicians as a leading trombonist of his generation, producer, composer, and “an arranger of the first-class” (Harvey Siders, JazzTimes). After moving to New York and receiving his Master’s Degree in Composition from the Manhattan School of Music in 2002, he was catapulted to international significance when he was discovered by NEA Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri to transcribe and arrange the complete repertoire from his historic La Perfecta group of the 1960s. He won his first Grammy® Award with Palmieri for Listen Here in 2006 (Concord Picante), an album which featured such jazz royalty as Michael Brecker, Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride, and John Scofield.Doug Beavers has since went on to perform, arrange and record for Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Christian McBride, Mingus Big Band, Ruben Blades, Típica ’73, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Paul Simon, Willie Colón, Joe Locke, Tom Harrell, Bob Mintzer, Dave Liebman, Kurt Elling and countless others. As a leader, he’s recorded five critically acclaimed albums; his 2017 release Art of the Arrangement (Artistshare) earned a nomination for the 60th Annual Grammy® Awards and a 4-star review in Downbeat Magazine.Beavers currents leads a multi-faceted and active career performing, recording, composing, educating, and producing and engineering for top New York and world artists. In July 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, he launched his own hybrid record label and production house, Circle 9, empowering artists with an industry-forward, top-to-bottom solution to create and distribute their projects in today’s environment. In October 2020, he launched Sol, a project comprised entirely of his original compositions, exploring the confluence of Afro-Caribbean, R&B and jazz styles, his first such project for Circle 9 Records. As recently as January 2021, he received his first award as mix engineer from the prestigious Jazz Station awards for Best Engineered Jazz Album of 2020 for Spanish Harlem Orchestra’s Latin Jazz Project.Doug Beavers is a Buffet Crampon USA artist performing on Antoine Courtois Trombones, and endorses Eargasm Earplugs. He writes for Latin Business Today, and serves on the advisory board for Riverview Jazz, a Jersey City-based 501(c)(3) organization producing over 100 concerts a year in Hudson County, NJ and surrounding areas.