"Johnny's voice is easy and smooth, with a distinctive, creative bent and a light
vibrato like John Pizzarelli". Fred Bouchard - Downbeat Magazine "Trumpeter and vocalist Johnny Souza has an incredibly strong and pure tone as well as a fluid attack that produces well articulated, melodic lines. With his latest release "Meet Me In The City", Souza has once again raised the bar of jazz trumpet." Eric Cohen, Music Director - WAER - Jazz 88 - Syracuse, NY "Souza's forte lies in his prodigious instrumental solos, either on trumpet or flugelhorn he employs smooth, legato lines, his sense of melody and improvisation, ever renewing, does not fall into the trap of excessive cliches and loquaciousness" Ernie Santosuosso - Boston Globe Jazz Critic/QuarterNotes Jazz Publication "Johnny Souza's trumpet is superb, clean cut - his doubles and triples are as sharp as the air they ride. Johnny's flugelhorn smiles widely. And Johnny sings "madly" - as Ellington might say." Peter Deveber- Author, Contributor New England Jazz Alliance |
Trumpeter/Singer/Composer Johnny Souza is an alumnus of Berklee College of Music
where he majored in music performance and studied with instructors including: John
LaPorta, Wes Hensel and Mike Metheny. Johnny led his own popular, commercial
dance band performing throughout the 80's at nightclubs and concerts up and down
the east coast. Johnny now performs a classic, standard repertoire similar
to the styles of Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darrin, Harry Connick Jr, Louis Armstrong
and Chet Baker. Johnny has two recordings as leader to his credit. Comprised of
classic standards along with Johnny's original compositions, these recordings
have received a high level of airplay on radio stations across the country. Johnny's
CD and downloads are available on Amazon.Com and Apple iTunes among other
sources. Johnny has also recently begun writing a monthly jazz column which is
published in a number of newspapers in eastern Massachusetts. |
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