PKO
is
leader, string bass:
Paul Keller
vocalist:
Susan Chastain
piano:
Duncan McMillan
drums:
Pete Siers
saxophones:
Andrew Bishop
Ben Jansson
Keith Kaminski
Paul Klinger
Brian Romeo
Bobby Streng
trumpets:
Brandon Cooper
Paul Finkbeiner
Jeff Gedz
Patrick Hession
trombones:
Brooks Barnes
Gene Bartley
Terry Kimura
The Keller/Kocher Quartet |
 The Paul Keller Orchestra turns 20 years old!
The Paul Keller Orchestra
is one of Michigan's finest, most-respected and well-traveled
jazz big bands. The PKO has held forth every Monday night, for nearly
twenty years, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, first at the Bird of Paradise
Jazz Club, then at The Firefly Club on Ashley Street and now at
their beautiful new home, The New Firefly Club which is located
at 637 S. Main Street. Since its creation in 1989 by Paul Keller,
the PKO has maintained a high standard of musical excellence, performing
classic, obscure and original big band material from the entire
history of jazz.
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 The
PKO has garnered great popular and critical acclaim accepting the
1998 and 2000 Washtenaw Council For The Arts Awards for Musical Excellence.
The Paul Keller Orchestra has recorded six CDs, enjoyed two European
tours, and performed at every local music festival, including the
Montreux/Detroit Jazz Festival, the Warren Jazz Festival, the Detroit
Festival of Arts, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Pine Mountain
Music Festival and the Michigan Jazz Festival. Over the years, the
PKO has accompanied such great jazz artists as saxophonists Red Holloway,
Larry Nozero and Arno Marsh, clarinetists Henry Questa, Jim Wyse and
Dave Bennett, drummer Jeff Hamilton, trumpeters Fred Radke and Walter
White, vocalists Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sunny Wilkinson, Mark Randissi
and The Four Freshmen, and pianists James Dapogny, Ellen Rowe, Charles
Boles, Mr. B, Bob Seeley, Axel Zwingenberg, and Eddie Russ. The PKO's
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 The
PKO is leader/bassist Paul Keller; pianist Duncan McMillan; drummer
Pete Siers; saxophonists Keith Kaminski, Ben Jansson, Bobby Streng,
Brian Romeo and Paul Klinger; trumpeters Patrick Hession, Brandon
Cooper, Paul Finkbeiner and Jeff Gedz; trombonists Gene Bartley,
Terry Kimura and Brooks Barnes. Singer and Firefly Club owner Susan
Chastain is an important part of every PKO performance, supplying
grace, wit and delightful vocals from the Great American Songbook.
The
Paul Keller Orchestra performs every Monday night at The
Firefly Club from 8-11 PM. The Firefly Club is located
at 637 S. Main Street in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan (at South
Main and Mosley, just south of Madison and just north of Hill).
The Firefly Club is upstairs in a two-story, 125-year-old,
brick building that was originally the Ann Ann Arbor Buggy Company.
It was the home of the teen club The Neutral Zone as well as Ann
Arbor's iconic folk club The Ark. The Firefly Club is on
the east side of Main Street about four long blocks south of the
main walking loop of downtown Ann Arbor. The Firefly Club's phone
number is 734-665-9090, and you can visit their fantastic website
at www.fireflyclub.com
for a current calendar and other club information.
Come be a
part of our Monday night big band tradition and join Ann Arbor's
musical treasure, the Paul Keller Orchestra!
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