Jon-Erik Kellso

Jon-Erik Kellso and The EarRegulars – Live At The Ear Inn (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:39 minutes | 602 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Arbors Records

Jon Erik Kellso and The EarRegulars Live at The Ear Inn features a rotating cast of improvised coolness performed at one of the hippest bars in NYC. 15 years in the making, this live recording at New York City’s historic Ear Inn, brings together Jon-Erik Kellso and a rotating cast of the “baddest badasses,” free-wheeling improvised ensemble interplay and daring solos, with an enthusiastic audience of fans, friends and surprised folks who just showed up because it’s one of the oldest and coolest bars in New York. The music stylistically ranges from New Orleans trad through small-band swing and mainstream, always with an open-minded and in-the-moment approach seldom realized in more formal jazz clubs, concerts or studio recordings.

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Jon-Erik Kellso – Sweet Fruits Salty Roots (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:55 minutes | 1011 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazzology

“Kellso emerges as one of today’s most fulfilling mainstream trumpeters and cornetists. His poignant, rounded tone suggests a seamless combination of Buck Clayton, Bill Coleman, Cootie Williams, Frankie Newton, and Roy Eldridge, a synthesis of which anyone may be justifiably proud. From the listener’s point of view, it is difficult to think of anyone, save Ruby Braff, who so successfully embodies the best traditions of the past while at the same time bringing them convincingly into the present. Kellso is telling his story in the hallowed tradition of great yarn-spinners throughout history.
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