JERRY KALAF
Genres: Post Bop, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Eclectic Fusion • United States

Jerry Kalaf has been active in the Jazz community for many years. His credits include performances and tours with Eddie Harris, Gary Burton, Gary Foster, Frank Strazzeri, Bill Mays, Bill Perkins, Jimmy Cleveland, The Pointer Sisters and Major Holley. Jerry has toured Europe, Asia, South America and the United States as musical director of the Jazz Tap Ensemble with performances at the Playboy Jazz festival in Los Angeles, Salzburg Jazz festival in Salzburg Austria and in New York, at Carnegie Hall, The Joyce and Apollo Theaters. A recipient of a "Meet The Composer/California" grant funded by the National Endowment For The Arts and the California Arts Council, Jerry's recording "Just Like Old Times" is a collaboration with arranger Doug Walter and features eight of Jerry's compositions. The arrangements challenge and inspire a trio of piano, bass and drums and show the two sides of Jazz Composition: the interpretation of read more...