Zollar Debut's on the CMJ National Jazz Radio Chart issue #1142
17 - James Zollar, Zollar Systems (JZAZ)
18 - Chris Joss, Monomaniacs (ESL Music)
19 - David Leonhardt, Bach to the Blues (Big Bang)
20 - Mike LeDonne, The Groover (Savant)<
James Zollar is a musical treasure hidden in plain sight. He has played and recorded as a sideman for a variety of artists, including Cecil McBee, Tom Harrell, Weldon Irving and Sam Rivers, as a member of Wynton Marsalis' brass section in the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, The {Duke Ellington}} Orchestra and several of Don Byron's bands. While he leads his own mainstream-oriented quintet, Zollar has recorded only one collection, the very fine Soaring With Bird(Naxos Jazz, 1998).