Earl McIntyre, plays bass trombone, euphonium, tuba, dijerredoo, in addition to composing and arranging. From Brooklyn, New York, Earl McIntyre has performed with Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Miles Davis, Taj Mahal, Lester Bowie, The Band, Stevie Wonder, McCoy Tyner, Carla Bley, Lou Rawls, Jeffrey Osborne, Aretha Franklin, Cedar Walton, Levon Helm, the Count Basie Orchestra, the Ellington Orchestra, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Slide Hampton, George

Gruntz, the Mingus Big Band, and many others. Earl has received the National Endowments of the Arts grants for jazz study, jazz composition, and instruction. He appears on at least three Grammy Award-winning records and has been involved in a number of Tony winning productions. Earl has been on faculty at Long Island University, The New School for Social Research, SUNY at Purchase and the Wachovia “Jazz for Teens” at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. McIntyre has also been a teaching artist for Young Audiences and Brooklyn Arts Council, and has presented clinics through various arts organizations.