Grammy Award winning trumpet player, arranger, and composer Darrell Leonard has worked on hundreds of records including those by the Rolling Stones, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Taj Mahal, T Bone Burnett, Los Lonely Boys, B.B. King, Jimmy Smith, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Keb' Mo, Glenn Frey, Smokey Robinson, John Mayall, Bonnie Raitt, Delaney & Bonnie, and Little Feat.
Years of touring have taken him around the world where he has played at clubs, concerts and at most of the major jazz, blues, and pop festivals.
Theatre projects include an original score for Oscar winning writer and director Eric Simonson's play "Carter's Way" that features the renowned saxophone player Bobby Watson. "Carter's Way" had its world premire at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre in Kansas City and recently finished a succesful run in Chicago at the Steppenwolf Theatre.
Among collaborations with T Bone Burnett are an original score for the Steppenwolf Theatre production of Berthold Brecht's "Mother Courage and Her Children" and film music for "The Divine Sisters of the Ya Ya Sisterhood" and "Cold Mountain".
I was the re-mix arranger, trumpet player and co-producer with T Bone on this new Pepsi commercial.