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| Jon-erik Kellso |
 Trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso started playing professionally in and around Detroit, Michigan where he was born in 1964. Jon began early, playing in a big band at age 11, in the International Youth Symphony at age 13, and in a concert alongside Wild Bill Davison at age 17. Kellso played with a wide variety of groups there, including the J.C. Heard Orchestra. In ''88 Jon-Erik joined James Dapogny''s Chicago Jazz Band, with whom he''s made appearances throughout North America, concertized on PBS TV and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., performed on Garrison Keillor''s A Prairie Home Companionon Public Radio International, and recorded extensively. Since moving to New York City in 1989 to join Vince Giordano''s Nighthawks, Jon has enjoyed performing and recording with Ralph Sutton, Dan Barrett, Howard Alden, Marty Grosz, Milt Hinton, Dick Hyman, Linda Ronstadt, Maria Muldaur, Leon Redbone, Ken Peplowski, Bob Wilber and Kenny Davern, who commented, "Jon Kellso plays in the finest tradition of all my favorite trumpet players." Recent engagements include a week in Kobe, Japan as special guest with the Kenny Davern Quartet; several tours of Italy with Brock Mumford; concerts as a featured soloist in the U.K., Germany and Australia; annual appearances in jazz clubs and at the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans; and jazz parties and festivals throughout the United States and Europe. Other bands that Kellso is currently a member of in addition to Dapogny''s, Giordano''s, and (Matt Munisteri’s) Brock Mumford are: Orange Kellin''s Manhattan Ragtime Orchestra; David Ostwald''s Louis Armstrong Centennial Band; Dan Levinson''s Roof Garden Jass Band; and Dan Barrett''s Blue Swing/International Swing Party. Kellso can be heard on several television and movie soundtracks, including the Nickelodeon children''s show Blue''s Cluesand the recent movies Ghost World and The Aviator with Vince Giordano''s Nighthawks. Jon has been featured several times on Arbors Records, including two CDs as a leader and two (with more to be released) with Ruby Braff. His debut album, Chapter One, captured the attention of noted jazz critic Owen Cordle, who wrote, "Kellso has a fluent gift of melody and a knack for spicing it up with a Roy Eldridge-like rasp, a Howard McGhee-like excitability, and Rex Stewart-like tonal effects. Kellso debuts with a warm, swing-oriented session with no stray notes. The effortless, swinging mood is sustained throughout all 13 performances. Kellso is a most welcome discovery." |
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