The quintet features award-winning jazz vocalist Lisa Kelly, known for her smooth, intimately pleasing tone and relaxed, intuitive song phrasing, a la Diana Krall, Ella Fitzferald, and Renee Marie. Warburton Signature Trumpet Artist, JB Scott, finesses his trumpet and flugelhorn lines with the lyrical, witty, versatile flavors of Freddy Hubbard, Clark Terry, Louis Armstrong, and Chuck Mangione. The dynamic rhythm section includes Jeff Phillips on keyboard, strings and guitar, Corbin Schmid on upright and acoustic bass, and Clyde Connor on drums. Career backgrounds of these artists include the Larry Elgart Orchestra, the New York Pops, the St. Johns River City Band, Walt Disney World theme parks, leading the legendary Dukes of Dixieland, to drumming with the renowned Navy Commodores in D.C, while mentoring 1,000’s of next generational aspiring jazz musicians. They’ve collaborated over the years to record and to perform on stages regionally to internationally, often to repeated, sold-out shows, for jazz clubs, jazz societies, corporate events, and private affairs, to jazz festivals. Autographed CDs will be available for purchase at the concert! Website: www.kellyscottmusic.com
About the Artists:
Lisa Kelly (vocals) An 8 x Downbeat Magazine award winner for voice, arranging, and composition, a 2013 Jacksonville Jazz Festival "Hall of Fame" Inductee, Lisa was a featured vocalist with the legendary Larry Elgart Orchestra, the St Johns River City Big Band, and the UNF JE 1 big band. Her world-wide performances include the Vienna State Opera House, the Kennedy Center, Montreux Jazz Festival, the Pescara Jazz Festival, the Jazz Corner, the Van Wezel, the SS Norway Big Band Cruise, and other major venues and jazz festivals. She has sung with Ed Calle, Jane Monheit, Bransford Marsalis, and other jazz notables. A recording studio and jingle singer on radio and TV, earning her B.M. and M.M. in Jazz Studies, she has taught music formally at LaVilla Middle SOTA, Douglas Anderson High SOTA, and is the Adjunct Vocal Jazz Professor at UNF. Lisa originated and ran the Jacksonville Jazz Festival jam session for over 20 years, originated and has directed the multi-generational Swingin’ Summer Jazz Camp for the past 8 years. She performs as a group leader, a featured guest artist, presents jazz clinics and residencies.
JB Scott (trumpet) The 1st graduate of the regarded UNF jazz program, JB toured with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, with the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus (Japan), led the famed "Dukes of Dixieland" in New Orlean’s Mahogany Hall. He performed on the PBS recorded special,
“A Salute to Jelly Roll Morton,” with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops at Carnagie Hall, and with Al Jarreau and the Jacksonville Symphony. JB has performed with jazz notables Ed Calle, Jeff Hamilton, Lynn Seaton, Al Hirt, and others. The 2017 Jacksonville Jazz Festival "Hall of Fame" Inductee, in his 27th year as the UNF jazz trumpet professor, JB directs the UNF JE 1 big band, the Great American Jazz Series, and is the Coord. of Jazz Studies. With a B.M. degree from UNF and M.M. in Music Ed from FIU, JB is a Warburton Signature Trumpet Artist, much in demand as a performer and clinician.
Jeff Phillips (piano) Former staff pianist for years at Walt Disney World Parks with the Grand Floridian High Society Band and the Rhythm Rascals, Jeff has toured and recorded with Bill Allred Classic Jazz Band, the Midiri Brothers, Connie Haynes, Ken Peplowski, Louis Bellson, Warren Vache' Buddy DeFranco, Bob Draga, and many other jazz luminaries. He also plays organ, and a unique keyboard & foot-pedal signature presentation. Jeff has been featured on radio, TV, CD recordings, and over 30 years of performing as a much in demand accompanist, and as a group leader. He serves as a guest artist/clinician with vocalist Lisa Kelly, and as an adjudicator. With a formal degree in tuba and Music ED, Jeff serves as an adjunct instructor at Harrison High SOTA, in Lakeland, Florida.
Corbin Schmid (bass) Raised in Lakeland, FL, the youngest on the bandstand, Corbin grew up studying and performing with many seasoned jazz musicians, including Walt Disney World staff bassist Jay Mueller, pianist Jeff Phillips, and others in Florida. A graduate of the renowned Harrison High SOTA, he was the bassist for every top award-winning music group, playing concerts for Disney Theme Parks, jazz festivals and jazz societies, and was selected for the Berklee Student Global Band/Newport Jazz Festival. With a full-ride UNF scholarship and jazz society scholarship awards, Corbin is completing his B.M. degree to pursue his M.M, studying with Grammy bass legend Dennis Marks. As the bassist with the flagship UNF JE I big band, and top combos, he has performed at major festivals and music conventions in the U.S, while maintaining a heavy schedule of freelance small group and big band playing in Florida and GA.
Clyde Connor (drums) former drummer with the U.S. Navy Commodores Big Band in Wash, D.C, Clyde has been featured on Bedwin, Connor, & Warner Brothers, and on other recordings of standing with Randy Brecker, Doc Severinsen, Dave Brubeck, Diane Schuur, and countless others. Clyde continues to play big band, small group, symphony and “Pops” concerts, for jazz clubs, major venues, and festivals. He was a main drummer for the St. Johns River City Big Band, the Baltimore Symphony, and for the Jacksonville Jazz Festival’s piano competition. With B.M. and M.M. degrees in jazz, attending the University of North Texas, with completion at the University of Florida, where he has been serving on faculty since 2016 as a drum professor, band director, and instructor of arranging.
