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Instrument: Trumpet

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Musician

James Delano Zollar began his musical career at age 9 playing bugle in his hometown, Kansas City Missouri. At 12, he graduated to the trumpet where he began to discover his musical voice and focus. After high school he continued to study at San Diego City College and then the University of California at San Diego. At the same time he honed his chops with various funk and jazz bands and lead his own straight-ahead quintet. In 1972, Zollar moved to San Francisco and he studied with the great jazz trumpet player Woody Shaw to study jazz improvisation. In, 1984, he moved to New York City and played with the Cecil McBee Quintet for five years and then recorded with Tom Harrell, with Weldon Erving and Sam Rivers

Album

A Decade

By Danny Jonokuchi

Label: Bandstand Presents
Released: 2024
Track listing: Voyage; Red Top; This Can't Be Love; South Philly; Skylark; On Green Dolphin Street; Ping Pong; Lady Bird; Like Someone In Love; Skylark (vocal).

Album

Swingin' Uptown

By Eyal Vilner

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Chicken an�� Dumplings; Bumpy Tour Bus; Swingin�� Uptown; Tell Me Pretty Baby; I Want Coffee; Is You Is or Is You Ain��t; Tea for Two; Lobby Call Blues; Blue Skies; Don��t You Feel My Leg; I Love the Rhythm in a Riff; I Don��t Want to Be Kissed (By Anyone Else But You); Swing Brother Swing; Coffee Bean Stomp Jubilee; Hellzapoppin��; Afternoon at Smalls.

Album

Night City

By Neal Kirkwood

Label: Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
Released: 2024

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Mamiko Watanabe, Melissa Aldana, Matt Wilson, James Zollar and more

by Hobart Taylor
May 29, 2024

New music from pianist Mamiko Watanabe's Guided by the Light, saxophonist Melissa Aldana's Echoes of the Inner Prophet, Matt Wilson's Good Trouble and James Zollar'sThe Ways In. Playlist Isrea Butler “Congo Lament" from Congo Lament (Vegas Records) 0:00 Rachel Gould “Send Smoke Signals “ from Where Have I Been All of Your Life (WJ3) ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Cecil McBee, James Zollar & Eddie Henderson

by Joe Dimino
March 10, 2024

We start the 845th Episode of Neon Jazz with master musician, doctor and figure skater Eddie Henderson with music from his 2023 release Witness to History. Eddie is featured on this episode to celebrate the PBS documentary Uncommon Genius. From there, we hear music from his teacher Louis Armstrong then motor our way into another quality ...

Album

Holidays

By Kristen Lee Sergeant

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Snowbound; My Favorite Things; Solstice; Blue Xmas; What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?; Sleigh Ride; A Child is Born; The Christmas Song; I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Power Initiative Kicks Off 20th Anniversary Season With The Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam Series

October 2, 2023

Jazz Power Initiative (JPI), an Inwood-based non-profit organization founded in 2003 with the mission of transforming lives through jazz music, arts education and performance, kicks off its 20th anniversary season with the acclaimed Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam series starting in October. Held twice-monthly, the Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam presents professional and emerging jazz artists with a ...

Album

The Ways In

By James Zollar

Label: JZAZ Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1, The Fruit - Dedicated to Barry Harris (Composed by Bud Powell, Arranged by James Zollar, Michael Rorby) 2, Peace / Blue Silver - Dedicated to Al Zollar (Composed by Horace Silver /Composed by Blue Mitchell, Arranged by Slide Hampton) 3, Reflectory (Composed by Pepper Adams) 4, The Single Pedal of A Rose - Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth ��, Joe Temperley (Composed by Duke Ellington, Arranged by Michael Rorby, James Zollar) 5, Jim Jim (Composed by James Zollar, Arranged by James Zollar, Michael Rorby) 6, Do Nothing till You Hear From Me - Dedicated to Cootie Williams, Barrie Lee Hall (Composed by Duke Ellington) 7, Swing Spring (Composed by Miles Davis, Arranged by James Zollar) 8, Pat - Dedicated to Pat Zollar (Composed by Nabuko Kiryu, Arranged by Michael Rorby) 9, Down Town Up (Composed by Michael Rorby) 10, Checkered Hat - Epilogue Dedicated to Mercer Ellington (Composed by Norris Turney)

Album

The Jam!

By Eyal Vilner

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: I��m Just a Lucky So and So; Chabichou; Another Time; The Jam; Will You Be My Quarantine?; Monday Stroll; Chad��s Delight; Hard Hearted Hannah; T��aint What You Do; Call Me Tomorrow, I Come Next Week; After the Lights Go Down Low; Tap Tap Tap; Belleville; Jumpin�� at the Woodside.