Ryan Kisor

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Ryan-Kisor (right) with Wynton Marsalis (2020)

Ryan Kisor (born April 12, 1973 in Sioux City / Iowa ) is an American jazz trumpeter.

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Kisor had trumpet lessons from his father from the age of four. At the age of ten he played with regional dance bands, and two years later he began training as a classical trumpeter. At a jazz camp he saw Clark Terry and then turned to jazz music. In 1990 he won the trumpet competition of the Thelonious Monk Institute alongside competitors such as Nicholas Payton and Marcus Printup . He caused a sensation with two albums that recorded for Columbia Records during this time , Minor Mutiny in 1992 and On the One .

From 1991 Kisor attended the Manhattan School of Music , after which he was a student a. a. by Lew Soloff . He worked u. a. with the Mingus Big Band ( Nostalgia in Times Square 1993, Gunslinging Birds , 1994 and Que Viva Mingus! 1997) and the Michel Camilo Big Band , with Jim Hall , Gerry Mulligan , Wynton Marsalis , Wycliffe Gordon , Horace Silver , Steve Slagle and Walter Blanding . He has been a member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra since 1994 . He also recorded several albums from 1997 as a band leader for the Criss Cross label.

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SURNAME Kisor, Ryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Sioux City , Iowa