# Mark’s music has also found its way into the world of television and feature film: Video

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- Published: 2017-10-06T09:08:32+01:00
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**06.10. – Happy Birthday !!! Mark Whitfield graduated from Boston’s prestigious
Berklee College of Music in 1987 where he studied composition, arranging, film scoring
and conducting as well as all styles of guitar performance. **

Later on that year, he returned to his native New York, and immediately began his
professional career. Within a few months, he had begun to perform and record with
many well-known artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Smith, Herbie Hancock, 
McCoy Tyner, Art Blakey, Jack McDuff, Betty Carter, Carmen McCrae, Dianne Reeves,
Joe Williams, Cleo Laine, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Terence Blanchard,
Stanley Turrentine, Clark Terry and many more.

As a result of the popularity awarded gained while amassing this impressive resume,
Whitfield was dubbed “The Best Young Guitarist In The Business”, by The New York
Times. In September of 1990, Warner Brothers Records released Whitfield’s debut 
solo recording, “The Marksman” to widespread critical acclaim and impressive sales.

In the decade to follow Whitfield released two subsequent recordings for Warner 
Brothers, five for Polygram’s Verve Label, and two for Herbie Hancock’s ground breaking
label, Transparent Music. Along the way, Whitfield’s musical interests began to 
expand, taking him out of the realm of traditional jazz and into collaborations 
with popular music superstars like D’Angelo, Mary J. Blige, Take 6, The Roots, Chaka
Khan, Al Jarreau, George Benson, B.B. King, Ashford and Simpson and the great Quincy
Jones.

Mark’s music has also found its way into the world of television and feature film.
These projects include twelve episodes of the ABC television series “Moon Over Miami”,
performing with Wynton Marsalis on the soundtrack for the film _Tune In Tomorrow_,
starring Peter Falk, and for one season of NBC Television’s “Shannon’s Deal”, performing
the soundtrack and making cameo appearances with Harry Belafonte and Jennifer Jason
Leigh in the Robert Altman film _Kansas City_ and performing with Terence Blanchard
on the soundtrack for the HBO film _The Soul of the Game_.

In addition, a Whitfield original composition entitled “The Blues From Way Back,”
taken from his CD _The Marksman_, aappears on the soundtrack for the feature film
_One Night Stand_ starring Nastassia Kinski, Wesley Snipes and Robert Downey Jr.

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