James Zollar moves up the national Jazzweek Radio Chart this week. 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. Zollar was featured in Robert Altman's motion picture “Kansas City", in Madonna's music video “My Baby's Got a Secret", as well as Malcolm Lee's film “The Best Man". He played on the sound truck of “The Perez Family" and is proud to be included in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oxford University Press 1999.). James was also a featured soloist with Jon Faddis and Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra as well as Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
He remains New York based, where he stands out in a wide range of musical settings. Today, he's playing with The Duke Ellington Orchestra, working with several of Don Byron's Bands, and also working with NYC Blues Devil.
17 PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND, Preservation (Preservation Hall)
17 LISA HILTON, Twilight & Blues (Ruby Slippers)
19 PAT METHENY, Orchestration (Nonesuch)
20 GAIL PETTIS, Here in the Moment (OA2)
20 James Zollar, Zollar Systems (JZAZ)
