Jon-Erik Kellso

Jon-Erik Kellso (born May 8, 1964, Dearborn, Michigan) is an American jazz trumpeter and session musician.

Kellso in 2007

Kellso began playing jazz music very young in life, and also received some formal training in classical idioms.

Some of the jazz musicians he has performed and/or recorded with include J.C. Heard, Catherine Russell, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Kat Edmonson, James Dapogny, Milt Hinton, Rick Fay, Ralph Sutton, Ruby Braff, Marty Grosz, Bob Haggart, Dick Hyman, Wynton Marsalis, Ken Peplowski, Bucky Pizzarelli, Dan Barrett, Bob Wilber, Howard Alden, Wycliffe Gordon, and Kenny Davern. He has also played and recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Leon Redbone, Maria Muldaur, Levon Helm, Elvis Costello, Dave Van Ronk, and many others, appearing on over one hundred records.

He moved from Detroit to New York City in 1989 to join Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, with whom he has recorded many movie and TV soundtracks, including the Grammy-award-winning soundtrack for Boardwalk Empire, The Aviator, Bessie, Ghost World, and Revolutionary Road.

Kellso led The EarRegulars at the historic Ear Inn in Manhattan on Sunday nights since 2007, with whom he has recorded two acclaimed CDs.

Discography

As leader
  • Chapter I (Arbors, 1993)
  • Chapter Two: The Plot Thickens (Arbors, 1997)
  • Kellso's BC Buddies (gen-Erik, 2005)
  • Blue Roof Blues: A Love Letter to New Orleans (Arbors, 2007)
  • Remembering Ruby (gen-Erik, 2007)
  • The EarRegulars (gen-Erik, 2014)
  • In the Land of Beginning Again (Jazzology, 2015)
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References
  • Monk Rowe, "Jon-Erik Kellso". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.


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