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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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Montana Jazz.com:

A message from Sonny Rollins, Spring 2008 (.mov)




Montana Wilderness Assoc.
Jazz Hike to Kiyo Crag, July 2007
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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

 


Moose Creek

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

Tenor saxophone 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..."

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Upcoming Events

Wilbur Rehmann Quartet

July 11th Billings - Walkers Grill - trio withKen Nelson, Bill Honaker

July 15th New West Health Systems reception - Trio with Blackie Nelson, Rennan Rieke

July 22nd Dillon - Out to Lunch in the Park - WR Quartet

July 23rd Helena, Staggering Ox - Quartet

July 24th Art in the Park, Kalispell and Laughing Horse Lodge, Swan Lake

July 30th Hot Springs - Symes Hotel - Trio with Luke Michelson

July 31 Great Falls - Fair with Butte Big Band

Aug. 1 Canyon Creek - Jazz Brunch - DUo

Aug. 5th Helena - Archie Bray

Aug 15th Moose Creek Cabin - Quintet

Aug. 20th Helena, Staggering Ox - Quartet

Sept. 1 Alive at 5 Downtown Helena - Quintet

Sept. 12 Billings - Walkers Grill - Trio with Ken Nelson and Bill Honaker

Sept. 24th Helena - Staggering Ox - Quartet

Sept. 25th Helena - Prickly Pear Land Trust Duo

Sept. 26th Helena - NAMI Walk Memorial Park with Steve Rains

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