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leading a concert in Melbourne, Australia in March, '05 w/local all-stars: reed player Jo Stevenson, trombonist Chris Ludowyk, bassist Andy Ross, pianist Stephen Grant, & drummer Alan Browne. Big fun!

MORE fun in Oz--my dear pal cornettist Simon Stribling and I enjoying a boat ride with his lovely wife Lauri (who took the photo) in Noosa, Australia, March '05. How about those Hawaiian shirts?

left below: blocking for Wynton Marsalis with Wycliffe Gordon and a combination of David Ostwald's Gully Low Jazz Band and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra for Lionel Hampton's New Orleans style jazz funeral procession from the Cotton Club to St. John's Cathedral in New York.

Right: w/guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli, bassist Nicki Parrott and tenor saxophonist Harry Allen at the West Texas Jazz Party in Midland, May '03 (musta been SOME piano solo!)

left: with singer Maria Muldaur (of "Midnight at the Oasis" fame) at a recording session in
Ann Arbor, MI, Oct. 11-14, '04 w/James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band. This CD "Naughty, Bawdy and Blue" is now available. There is also a DVD available of a concert with her in MI that week.

right, above: Dan Levinson's Roof Garden Jass Band: Dave Sager, Kevin Dorn, Dan Levinson, Tom Roberts, Jon-Erik Kellso

L: with Conal Fowkes, Randy Reinhart and Randy Sandke (among others) at a Bix Tribute concert in March '04

R: at Joe Boughton's Chautauqua Jazz Weekend (NY), September, '04. Too many names to list here--see if you recognize any or all of these jazz heavyweights!

L: also from Chautauqua '04

R: after a gig during a fun week at Marion's Jazz Room with
the Manhattan Ragtime Orchestra in Bern, Switzerland. Terry Waldo, me, Brad Shigeta, Conal Fowkes, leader Orange Kellin, John Gill, Skye Steele, and Rob Garcia. The other guy in the background is actually a not-so-good portrait of Wild Bill Davison on the wall (heh heh). May '04.

Jazz legend/bassist/composer Bob Haggart's last edition of the "World's Greatest Jazz Band," in Japan, 1996.
Ken Peplowski, Bob Haggart, George Masso, Ira Nepus ('bone/tour organizer), the promoter (embarrassed I can't remember his name), Kellso, Banu Gibson, Randy Sandke, Butch Miles, and John Bunch.

Here are the album covers from my 1st and 2nd CDs as a leader, recorded for Arbors Records in '93 and '95, now available on iTunes after being out of print for a while.

Visit my MySpace page for a bunch more photos--including me as the dixieland zombie last Halloween! Not to be missed! Very scary. You can also purchase MP3s from a few of my CDs there. http://www.myspace.com/jonerikkellso

*STAY TUNED--hopefully I'll be adding YET MORE pix soon, some fun stuff.*