Danny Jonokuchi

Danny Jonokuchi is a New York City and Los Angeles based jazz trumpeter, vocalist, composer, and arranger who leads the Danny Jonokuchi Big Band, a 17-piece ensemble built around his original compositions and arrangements. He also fronts Danny Jonokuchi and the Revisionists, a swing band devoted to the international Lindy Hop community. He studied jazz at Temple University's Boyer College of Music and earned a master's degree in composition from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. His honors include the 2020 ASCAP Foundation Louis Armstrong Award, the 2020 Count Basie Great American Swing Contest, and the 2024 ISJAC Wayne Shorter Jazz Arranging Prize, and he has performed on two Grammy-winning projects. His 2024 release A Decade, his fifth album as a leader, serves as an autobiographical chronicle of his years in New York.