Dave Ballou is an American

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trumpeter and professor of music at

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, in

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Early life and education

Ballou was born in Peace Dale, Rhode Island. He started playing the trumpet at age 11. Ballou received his bachelor's degree at

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in 1986 and his master's degree at the

University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire, United States. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant coll ...

in 1992.

Career

He played in the Mingus Epitaph band and has worked as a sideman for musicians such as

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, Andy Biskin, Michael Formanek,

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, Jacob Garchik, Andrew Hill, John Hollenbeck,

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, Denman Maroney, Orange Then Blue,

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, Maria Schneider, Michael Jefry Stevens, and Nate Wooley. His first album as a leader was issued in 1998. Ballou is currently professor of music at

in Maryland.

Discography

Albums

* ''Amongst Ourselves'' (

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, 1998) * ''Volition'' (Steeplechase, 1999) * ''The Floating World'' (Steeplechase, 2000) * ''On This Day'' (Steeplechase, 2001) * ''Rothko'' (Steeplechase, 2002) * ''Dancing Foot'' (Steeplechase, 2004) * ''Regards'' (Steeplechase, 2005) * ''Insistence'' (Steeplechase, 2007) * ''Solo Trumpet'' ( Clean Feed, 2015) * Dave Ballou & BeepHonk - The Windup (Clean Feed, 2018) With Mark Murphy * '' Some Time Ago'' (HighNote, 2000) * '' Links'' (HighNote, 2001) With

*'' The Cactus of Knowledge'' (Enja, 2001) With Samo Salamon *''Dream Suites Vol. 1'' (Samo Records, 2025)

References

External links

*http://daveballou.com/ American jazz trumpeters American male trumpeters American male jazz musicians Orange Then Blue members Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Berklee College of Music alumni University of New Hampshire alumni {{US-jazz-trumpeter-stub