Educational Background
Schedule
College of Arts & Letters

James Ford III
Assistant Professor

Office: Music 70
Phone: 323-343-4081
FAX: 323- 343-4063
Email: jford@calstatela.edu

Research Interests

Representative Professional Activities

Date

Publications/Presentations
June 2002 "Medical Problems of Brass Instrumentalists: Prevalence Rates for Trumpet, Trombone, French Horn, and Low Brass." Medical Problems of Performing Artists. (2002), 17/2, 93-98.
May 2003 "Medical Problems of Trumpeters." Symposium on the medical problems of trumpet players presented at the 2003 International Trumpet Guild Conference, Ft. Worth Texas.
March 2006 "Health Awareness in Music"  presented at The College Music Society: Pacific Southern Chapter, Los Angeles, CA
Winter 2007 "Jazz Education for the Non-Jazzer" presented at the CMEA Southern Section Mid-Winter In-Service Day, Burbank, CA

Biography

JAMES FORD III [trumpet], a native of Ft. Valley, Georgia, is Assistant Professor of Trumpet at California State University, Los Angeles.  James has a reputation as an accomplished all-around trumpet player. He performs in diverse musical settings including orchestral, chamber, big band, salsa, small groups, musicals, and early music. A few of the artists/ensembles James has performed and/or recorded with include the University of North Texas One O’clock Lab Band, The Los Angeles Opera, The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, The Gerald Wilson Orchestra, The Price-Wright Orchestra, The Henry Mancini Orchestra, Benjamin Wright, James Newton, John Pizzarelli, Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, Kenny Wheeler, Joe Lovano, Jiggs Whigham, Debbie Allen, Justin Timberlake, Joss Stone, Paul Anka, and Nicholas Eklund.

Spring 2008 SCHEDULE

MUS 411 Performance Pedagogy W 10:50-12:30 Mus118
MUS 424-01 Jazz Lab Ensemble MW 11:40-2:00 Mus 150
MUS 117-417 Applied Trumpet TBA Mus 70

 

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