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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

 


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

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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.


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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

2012

February 9 - Green Meadow Country Club, solo

February 21 - Carroll College Mardi Gras - Quartet

February 23 - Green Meadow Country Club, solo

March 11 - Walkers Grill, Billings - Trio

March 16 - Staggering Ox, Helena - Quartet

March 22 - Jazz and Just Desserts, Holter Museum, Quintet

March 30 - Carroll Jr/Sr Banquet dance - Quartet

April 4 - Montana Club, Helena - Quintet

April 20 - Bozeman HS - History of Jazz

April 21 - Glendive Hospital Ball - Quartet

April 27 - Staggering Ox, Helena - Quartet

May 20 - Walkers Grill, Billings - Trio

June 16 - Rathskellar, Helena -Quintet

July 21 - Wedding, Bridgers

August 4-5 - Jazz Hike, Tobacco Root Mtns, Bell Lake

September 7 - Holter Museum - Jazz Workshop

September 21 - NAMI Walk - Memorial Park, Helena - Quartet

 

 

 


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