Trumpeter Duane Eubanks has performed everywhere from the Hollywood Bowl to Carnegie Hall to the Kennedy Center, in addition to touring throughout Europe and Japan. He is a member of Dave Holland's two-time GRAMMY Award-winning big band and the late Mulgrew Miller's band, Wingspan. His highly successful musical family: his mother - pianist Vera Eubanks, Kenny Barron's first piano teacher and a professional church pianist; his brothers - renowned trombonist Robin Eubanks and guitarist Kevin Eubanks, former bandleader of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno; as well as his uncle - the late legendary pianist Ray Bryant all saw Eubanks' potential at a young age and persuaded him to pursue music.
Eubanks has worked with a long list of major jazz artists including Elvin Jones, Mulgrew Miller and Dave Holland as well as contemporary artists such as Rhonda Ross, Kirk Franklin, Alicia Keys and Talib Kweli. His album releases, the critically acclaimed Things of that Particular Nature and DE3: Live at Maxwell's, have been well received by jazz aficionados all over the world. Euabnks is currently on faculty at Brooklyn Music School.
