James Zollar
James Delano Zollar (born July 24, 1959 in Kansas City , Missouri ) is an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player .
Live and act
Zollar studied at San Diego City College after high school and then at the University of California at San Diego . At the same time he played in various funk and jazz bands and led his own quintet. In 1972 Zollar moved to San Francisco and studied improvisation with Woody Shaw . In 1984 he came to New York City , played in the band of Cecil McBee and participated in several big band projects by David Murray in the 1990s ( David Murray Big Band Conducted by Lawrence "Butch" Morris (1991) and in 1996 in Dark Star ); In 1992 he was a member of the Joe Haider / Bert Joris big band . In 1998 he worked with Sam Rivers ( Inspiration ); In 1999 he played in the JM Rhythm Four formation of Jürg Morgenthaler in Zurich and played in the big band of Tom Harrell ( Time's Mirror ). At the end of the 1990s he also worked on several projects with clarinetist Don Byron ( Bug Music , You Are # 6 ). In 1997 his first album was released under his own name, Souring with Bird , on the Naxos Jazz label . James Zollar has also worked with Jon Faddis and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra , with Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra .
Zollar appears in Robert Altman's film Kansas City . Zollar uses the plunger effect of the early trumpeters of the Duke Ellington Orchestra in his music , in whose successor bands he also played. He also appeared in Madonna's music video My Baby's Got a Secret and in Malcolm D. Lee's film “The Best Man”.
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zollar, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zollar, James Delano (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kansas City , Missouri |