Farnell Newton

Farnell Newton
Farnell Newton
Born	March 21, 1977 (age 47); Miami, Florida, U.S.
Genres	Jazz
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Trumpet
Labels	Posi-Tone Records, Lofijazzsoul Records, Formation Sound
Website	www.farnellnewton.com

Farnell Newton (born March 21, 1977) is a composer and jazz trumpeter.

Farnell Newton was born in Miami, Florida, and moved to Philadelphia in 1992, where he attended the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts. While in Philadelphia, Newton also studied with his uncles, saxophonist/arranger Conny Murray and Sunny Murray, one of the early avant garde’s most inventive and influential drummers.

Newton graduated from the Denver School of the Arts after moving to Denver in 1994 and then moved to Ohio to study at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. At Oberlin, Newton studied music performance with an emphasis in jazz and was mentored by Wendell Logan and trumpeter Kenny Davis. Newton performed with Aretha Franklin, James Moody, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Hugh Ragin while at Oberlin.

After graduating from Oberlin, Newton moved to Portland, Oregon, where he performed regularly with drummer Mel Brown, percussionist Bobby Torres, Akbar Depriest, and many others. He earned a Master’s degree in Jazz Studies and Performance from Portland State University in 2008.

After completing his graduate work, Newton toured extensively with three time Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Jill Scott and with the Legendary Rhinestone Rockstar Bassist “Bootsy” Collins.

When he is not spending time with his family, leading his funk band (The Othership Connection), or hosting his own jazz radio show at KMHD 89.1fm, he is touring & recording. Over the years Farnell has performed with Jarrod Lawson, Stevie Wonder, Skerik, Lettuce, Slightly Stoopid, Karl Denson, Galactic, Nigel Hall, Mike Phillips, and the Portland Cello Project. Newton also created a jazz social media group called Jam of the Week in 2013 which now features over 70,000 members worldwide.

Discography

As leader

2011 Class Is Now in Session
2015 Ready To Roll
2017 Back To Earth
2019 Lofijazzsoul
2019 7 Days of Rain
2019 Lofi Nights
2019 Rippin' & Runnin'
2020 Wake Up
2021 Feel The Love
2021 7 Days of Rain Vol. 2

As guest

2006 Liv Warfield, Embrace Me
2006 Stolen Sweets, Shuffle off to Buffalo
2006 Mike Van Liew, Polyglot
2007 Lifesavas, Gutterfly
2007 Othello, Alive at the Assembly Line
2007 Caña Son, Self Titled
2008 Pete Krebs, Pete Krebs Trio
2008 Willy Vlautin, A Jockeys Christmas
2009 Portland Jazz Orchestra, Good Morning Geek
2010 Hidden Beach, Unwrapped Vol. 7
2011 Bootsy Collins, Tha Funk Capital of the World
2011 DJ Kemit, Everlasting
2011 The Chicharones, Swine Flew
2014 The Yumatics, 90 Miles to Yuma
2015 Dirty Revival, Dirty Revival
2016 Xperience, Chasing Grace
2016 Mic Capes, Concrete Dreams
2016 Princess Freesia, Stellarsonic!
2017 Avery Sunshine, Twenty Sixty Four
2018 Ants Ants Ants, Why Why Why?
2018 Chance Hayden, Get Somethin'
2019 Tyrone Hendrix, Rhythm on Life Vol. 2
2019 Michalangela, As I See It
2019 14KT, For My Sanity
2019 Ezra Weiss, We Limit Not The Truth of God
2020 Nimzo, Resonance Theory
2020 Will Jordan, Be Good
2020 Mike Phillips, Pulling Off The Covers
2020 Raheem DeVaughn, What a Time to Bein Love
2020 Donte Thomas, how you like them APPLES?
2020 Tales of Wonder, A Jazz Celebration of Stevie
2021 Lofijazzsoul, Winter Soulstive 2020
2021 Posi-tone Swingtet, One for 25
2021 Jon Corbin, Stay Right Here
2021 2 that Native, Everything Is Golden
2021 JxJury, Dope Dealer.
2021 DJ O.G. One, Testimony
2022 MicCapes, In Spite Of
2022 Milc, Windbreaker
2022 Cartoons, Homegrown

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