Ryan Kisor

Ryan Kisor ( born April 12, 1973 in Sioux City / Iowa) is an American jazz trumpeter.

Kisor had from the age of four trumpet lessons from his father. With ten years he played with at local dance bands, and two years later he began training as a classical trumpeter. With a jazz camp he experienced Clark Terry and then turned to jazz music. In 1990, he won alongside competitors such as Nicholas Payton and Marcus Printup the Trumpet Competition of the Thelonious Monk Institute. He caused a sensation with two albums, which began at this time for Columbia Records, "Minor Mutiny " in 1992 and "On the One".

From 1991 Kisor visited the Manhattan School of Music, after which he was a student, among other things Lew Soloff. He worked among others with the Mingus Big Band ( Nostalgia in Times Square in 1993, Gunslinging Birds, 1994 and Que Viva Mingus! 1997) and Michel Camilo Big Band, Jim Hall, Gerry Mulligan, Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, Horace Silver, Steve Slagle and Walter Blanding. Since 1994 he is a member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. He also recorded several albums since 1997 as a leader for the Criss Cross label on.

Discography

• Minor Mutiny with Ravi Coltrane and Jeff Siegel, 1992
• On the one with Christian McBride, Mulgrew Miller, Lewis Nash, Chris Potter, David Sanchez, Mark Turner, 1993
• Battle Cry with Peter Bernstein, Brian Blade, Sam Yahel, 1997
• Usual Suspects with Willie Jones III, John Webber, Peter Zak, 1998
• Poit of Arrival with Willie Jones III, John Webber, Peter Zak, 1998
• Power Source with James Genus, Gene Jackson, Chris Potter, 1999
• Kisor, 2000
• Kisor II, 2001
• The Dream with Eric Alexander, Willie Jones III, Renato Thoms, John Webber, Peter Zak, 2001
• Awakening with Peter Bernstein, Willie Jones III, Grant Stewart, Sam Yahel, 2002
• The Sidewinder, 2003
• Donna Lee, 2004
• This Is Ryan with Jason Paul Brown, Grant Stewart, John Webber, Peter Zak, 2005

• Jazz trumpeter
• American musician
• Born in 1973
• Man