About Doug Beavers

"For the efforts of Mr. Beavers, the new millennium finds me truly grateful"
- Eddie Palmieri

GRAMMY® Winner Doug Beavers has been hailed by critics and fellow musicians as a leading trombonist of his generation, producer, and “an arranger of the first-class” (Harvey Siders, JazzTimes).

After moving to New York and receiving his Master’s Degree in Composition from the Manhattan School of Music in 2002, he was catapulted to international significance when he was discovered by NEA Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri to transcribe and arrange the complete repertoire from his historic La Perfecta group of the 1960s. He won his first Grammy® Award with Palmieri for Listen Here in 2006, an album which featured such jazz leaders as Michael Brecker, Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride, and John Scofield.

Doug Beavers has since went on to perform, arrange and record for Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Christian McBride, Mingus Big Band, Ruben Blades, Típica ’73, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Paul Simon, Willie Colón, and countless others. As a leader, he’s recorded six critically acclaimed albums; his 2017 release, Art of the Arrangement (Artistshare), earned a nomination for the 60th Annual Grammy® Awards and a 4 -star review in Downbeat Magazine.

Beavers currents leads a multi-faceted and active career performing, recording, composing, educating, and producing for top New York and world artists. In July 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, he launched his own hybrid record label and production house, Circle 9, empowering artists with an industry-forward, top-to-bottom solution to create and distribute their projects in today’s environment. Since its 2020 launch, Circle 9 Records has released 6 recordings under its banner, including jazz vibraphone master Joe Locke’s recording Makram, which went on to chart at #2 on the Jazzweek national radio airplay chart in 2023.

In 2023, Doug Beavers was once again nominated for a Grammy®, this time for his work as trombonist, producer and mixing and mastering engineer for the 2022 Spanish Harlem Orchestra release Imágenes Latinas. He also released his sixth recording, Luna, which received wide critical acclaim and charted at #11 on Jazzweek in August.

He currently serves on faculty at The College of New Jersey as Director of the Jazz Ensemble, and Audio Recording & Production. In 2021 he was awarded a Chamber Music America “New Jazz Works” Grantee, funded by the Doris Duke Foundation.

Doug Beavers is a Buffet Crampon USA artist performing on Antoine Courtois Trombones,. He serves on the advisory board for Riverview Jazz, a Jersey City-based 501(c)(3) organization producing over 100 concerts a year in Hudson County, NJ and surrounding areas.