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Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Road Shows
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Jim Rotundi
Montana-native, trumpeter Jim Rotondi began his musical studies at a very early age. His mother, a piano teacher, encouraged Jim to begin playing the piano at age eight. He took up the trumpet at age twelve.
In 1980 Jim graduated from Butte High School in Butte, Montana. After college Jim began recording and touring internationally with the Ray Charles Orchestra. Immediately following this he commenced a six year tenure with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. During this time Jim also became a member of organist Charles Earland's quintet. He currently tours with his own group, as well as with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and Grammy-winner Toshiko Akiyoshi and the collective known as One For All, which features a front line of Eric Alexander and Steve Davis.
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A message from Sonny Rollins, Spring 2008 (.mov)
Montana Wilderness Assoc.
Jazz Hike to Kiyo Crag, July 2007
more photos...
Wilbur Rehmann on soprano at Rasselas jazz club in San Francisco, April 2009, with Edo Castro and Eric Smith.
Wilbur Rehmann Quintet at the Archie Bray Foundation, June 2009.
Missouri River Rainbow July 2009
 Peter Fox, Mike Shea, Wilbur Rehmann, E. Doc Smith outside of Rasselas
 WR Special Edition Quartet at entrance to Rasselas
Concert at Moose Creek Cabin
for Helena National Forest
Wilbur Rehmann playing jazz on Main St. in Kalispell, Montana during the First Night Flathead Celebration, December 31, 2005. The Wilbur Rehmann Quartet performed at the Marshall Noice Gallery celebrating the end of 2005.
Radio Free Helena Jazz Sessions
KROL Radio 88.5 FM
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 4-6pm
The Wilbur Rehmann Quintet, July 2005, at Moonlight Basin in Big Sky for the National Assoc. of Attorneys General Annual Meeting.
Gates
of the Mountain, July 2003
Wilderness Walks
Montana
Jazz.com: Get Involved
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legend Sonny Rollins and Wilbur Rehmann, Berkeley, California,
Zellerbach Hall, November 18, 2000. (Photo by Joe Bryan) |
Both Mr.
Rollins and Mr. Rehmann share a concern for a clean and healthful
environment and urge everyone to work to save our planet from
the effects of pollution and global warming.
Please get involved
by contacting any of the following citizen groups that are fighting
to maintain our unique, wild places and agricultural lands and
fighting to protect our air and water.
---More
About Wilbur Rehmann Quartet
The Wilbur Rehmann Quartet have brought
to us a sense of joy, wonder and solitude with their original
jazz interpretations, which explore the interior landscapes of
the American West and the meaning of wilderness.
--Mike Clark,
Great Yellowstone
Coalition
1996
Quotable
Quotes about the Wilbur Rehmann Quartet
Missoula
Independent-- "The swinging, swaying, oscillating, lilting
beat of fluidity know as the Wilbur Rehmann Jazz Quartet...brings
a highly sophisticated Montana-bred jazz to Sean Kelly's"
Bozeman
Daily Chronicle-- "The music is exciting and the musicianship
is outstanding..."
Great
Falls Tribune-- "By popular demand...music for people
who love jazz..."
Billings
Gazette-- "...sophisticated rhythms and harmonies of jazz...has
created a cult following..."
Lively
Times-- "Their album, 'Back Home Jazz' is studded with
jazz standards...by four veteran musicians..."
More on this Montana Jazz Featured Artist
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Wilbur
Rehmann Quartet
Jan. 12th - On Broadway for Montana Shares, Trio with Ken Nelson, keyboards and Jeremy Slead, drums 6:00p-9:00p
Wilbur Rehmann Quintet at the Montana Club, 7:00p-9:00p
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Jan. 30th - Butte Big Band, Butte Arts Center, 6:00p-10:00p
Jan. 31 - Walkers Grill, Billings, Trio with Ken Nelson, keyboards and Bill Honaker, drums 7:00p-10:00p
Feb. 13th - Benny's Bistro, Helena, Duo with Mark Walker, piano 6:30p-8:30p
Feb. 19th - Jazz and Just Desserts, St. Paul's Methodist, for Montana Shares, 7:00p-10:00p
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