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Dallas Jazz Orchestra

Born: October 15, 1973

In 1973, founders Thomas Mason and Galen Jeter brought together some of the best musicians from the Dallas area to form the Dallas Jazz Orchestra. With no outside financial support, the Dallas Jazz Orchestra played its first public concert in March 1974. The group’s first album followed soon after, recorded live at “Maxine Kent’s” in 1975. The second album, also cut live at “Maxine Kent’s,” was produced in 1978. That same year, Galen moved the Dallas Jazz Orchestra into Wayne Morgan’s “Popsicle Toes” where it played weekly for many years. Later the band played at "Poor David's Pub" on lower Greenville Avenue, then the Village Country Club and currently at Dukes Icehouse on Addison

The N'Awlins Gumbo Kings

All the members of the Gumbo Kings have connections of some kind that go back to the Big Easy, New Orleans. Here are their stories... Steve Howard (biography) Trumpet (Paul McCartney, Dr. John, Ray Charles) Brad Herring (biography) Trombone (Tommy Loy, Mel Torme) Bobby Breaux (biography) Drums (Al Hirt, Woody Herman, Ellis Marsalis) Brian Piper (biography) Piano/Vocals (Jerry Jeff Walker, Rosemary Clooney, Cab Calloway, Vocal Majority) Mike Sizer (biography) Clarinet (Dukes of Dixieland) Kerby Stewart (biography) Bass (Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, NORAD Band) After months of toil and trial, the Gumbo Kings are proud to release their first CD! We're The Gumbo Kings cuts a wide swath through the very center of the Crescent City patois, and challenges the stodgiest listener to keep from smiling and shakin' his or her groove thang. The G.Kings take their shots across the entire range of the New Orleans musical heritage, from the horns blowing on the traditional second line all the way up through Mike Sizer's "Dixieland rap". The guys are honored to include a foreword to their album by legendary musician and educator Leon Breeden

Stockton Helbing

Born: August 29, 1980

Stockton Helbing is always moving. If he is not playing the drums he is busy being a composer, arranger, producer, bandleader, educator, music director, author, and entrepreneur.

Stockton maintains a busy schedule of performing, recording, and teaching around North America with his trio, quartet, quintet, and sextet. He is a frequent guest artist at colleges and high schools where he clinics, rehearses and performs with their small groups, big bands, and percussion ensembles. Since 2011, Stockton has been heard across the United States playing drums for American music icon and trumpet player extraordinaire Doc Severinsen.

Josh Hanlon

Born: September 9, 1975

Originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, Josh Hanlon recently completed his masters degree in Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas, where he played piano in the acclaimed One O' Clock Lab Band. During his time there he played in masterclass and performance with luminaries including Snooky Young, Pete Christlieb, Marchel Ivery, Marc Johnson, Andy Martin, John Vidacovich, Dave Stryker, Eddie Gomez, Matt Wilson, Jimmy Cobb, Jeff "Tain" Watts, "Blue" Lou Marini, and Cecil Bridgewater. Previously he performed with Ernie Watts, Jerry Granelli, Mike Murley, and Marvin Stamm, amongst others

Rosana Eckert

Born: August 28, 1974

With an international reputation in several facets of the world of media and entertainment, Rosana Eckert wears many hats as a versatile live and studio vocalist, a creative songwriter and arranger, a dynamic voiceover actor, and a master teacher of jazz and vocal technique. She has performed and recorded with many jazz luminaries, including Christian McBride, Lyle Mays, Bobby McFerrin, George Duke, Bill Mays, Jon Faddis, Marvin Stamm, and the New York Voices. Recently she was one of the three vocalists on "Eberhard," the Grammy Award-winning mini-symphony by legendary jazz pianist Lyle Mays, as well as a producer on the 2023 Grammy-nominated recording of “How Deep Is Your Love” by vocal group Kings Return. Performing regularly with her own bands and projects, Rosana's critically acclaimed album Sailing Home was praised as "bright and innovative" (AllAboutJazz) and “alluring” (Jazz Weekly). In 2021, her Brazilian jazz fusion band, Brasuka, released their highly acclaimed debut album of original songs titled A Vida Com Paixão. Lauded as “addictively joyful” (Exclusive Magazine) and "positively infectious" (The Big Takeaway), the album received 4 stars in Downbeat Magazine and All About Jazz.com and made it on several "Best of 2021" music lists.  Rosana has also been featured with the Mike Steinel Quintet on the album Song and Dance and with the multi-media jazz novel/cd/audiobook project Saving Charlie Parker. 

Carolyn Lee Jones

Born: October 30, 1950

She always wanted to be a singer and has proven that a "second act" is possible!

Bursting on to the music scene full time October 2008 Miss Jones hasn't looked back! Carolyn Lee Jones’s influences and choices of genre are as broad as her vocal styling is rich. With influences ranging from Julie London, Anita O’Day and Shirley Horn to, Diana Krall and Laura Nyro, Carolyn Lee Jones is a melodic jazz-pop singer stylist who loves both jazz and modern music. An eclectic repertoire includes; beautiful renditions of the familiar standards from the Great American Songbook, vintage pop songs into the jazz context and new music.

Her musical journey began as a child while growing up in Nebraska. During her formative years Carolyn sang in her school choirs and studied voice. Both of her parents were gifted musicians. After graduation, the lure of a bigger city drew her to Dallas, Texas where she enjoyed a successful 1st career in retailing for luxury stores. Carolyn traveled the world as a Buyer and continued seeking out music related opportunities. In October 2008, she made the decision to pursue music full time as a vocalist and bandleader.

Carolyn performs publicly and privately with her Fresh Vintage Jazz Ensemble & The Satin Dolls Band a stellar group of musicians. For More details visit the web site ! DISCOGRAPHY

Justin Pierce

Saxophonist Justin Pierce began his musical career in the musically diverse region of the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. After beginning saxophone studies at age 12, he developed a passion for music in the middle school jazz ensemble. Since that time, he has performed across the United States and internationally, earned degrees in both classical and jazz styles, and taught at the secondary and college levels. Justin currently serves as Assistant Professor of Instrumental Music at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Oklahoma, where he directs the jazz ensemble and touring band, in addition to teaching saxophone, clarinet, and improvisation lessons

Delbert McClinton and the Self Made Men: Prick of the Litter

by C. Michael Bailey
January 28, 2017

Delbert McClinton is from Lubbock, by way of Fort Worth Texas. I don't suspect that anyone would accuse Texas of being a “Soul" capital of anything. Isn't that Memphis, Muscle Shoals, Detroit, and Philadelphia? How can we account for who may possibly be the best white soul singer? Beginning in 1972, partnering with singer Glen Clark, ...

Mike Zito: Keep Coming Back

September 27, 2016

After sideman work, then membership in cooperative groups with Cyrille Neville, Devon Allman and others, in 2012 the St. Louis blues guitarist and singer Mike Zito formed his band, The Wheel. Few dedicated jazz listeners also keep up with developments in the music that grows out of country blues pioneers like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson ...

Hiring a Publicist: Is It Worth It?

by Kathy Sanborn
August 25, 2016

"Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!" --P. T. Barnum Jazz artists strive to make the best albums possible, choosing the best songs, selecting other musicians to interpret those songs, and recording the pieces with artistic and technical skill. When their masterpieces are complete, it does not all end there. The artist or band ...