Mart Avant

Mart Avant is a jazz trumpeter and arranger / composer residing in Tuscaloosa. For a number of years, Avant has been leader of the Tuscaloosa Horns and the Night Flight Big Band. He is a graduate of the jazz arranging program at the University of Alabama, where he worked with noted jazz educators Steve Sample, Sr and Ray Reach. The Tuscaloosa Horns make regular appearances with notable popular music groups, such as The Temptations, The Four Tops, Martha Reeves, Smokey Robinson and many others. The Night Flight Big Band appears regularly at Ona's Music Room in Birmingham and recently recorded their first CD, titled SuperBlue - Eric Essix and the Night Flight Big Band.

External links

• The Tuscaloosa Horns website
• Mart Avant's Night Flight Big Band at All About Jazz
• Night Flight Big Band at MySpace.com