Award winning jazz artists Lisa Kelly and JB Scott have performed together since the 1997 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on countless regional, national, and international stages, collaborating as featured soloists and band leaders. Releasing 6 acclaimed CD projects, they are each profiled in the 2010 book, “The New Face of Jazz,” among 120 regarded world-wide jazz artist-educators, and are inductees in the Jacksonville Jazz Festival “Hall of Fame” (2013, 2017).

Lisa Kelly: 8x Downbeat Magazine award winner for voice, composing, arranging, Lisa has been the featured vocalist of the 2000 IAJE Sisters in Jazz, UNF JE 1 big band, former St. Johns River City Band, Larry Elgart Orchestra, USMC All-Star Big Band. Her major performances include the Montreux Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Pescara Jazz Festival, Vienna State Opera House, Lincoln Center, the Van Weisel, the Jazz Corner, the SS Norway Big Band Cruise. She’s appeared with Bunky Green, Jane Monheit, Ed Calle, Danny Gottlieb, Arturo Sandoval, and other notables. With B.M. and M.M. degrees in jazz studies from UNF, she is a popular guest artist/clinician for jazz festivals, high school and college programs, jazz societies, jazz camps. Creating the Jacksonville Jazz Festival jam session in 1997, hosting it for 20 years, she directs the annual multi-generational Swingin’ Summer Jazz Camp she created.

JB Scott: led the world-famous Dukes of Dixieland in New Orleans, has performed with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Al Hirt, Arturo Sandoval, Eddie Palmieri, Ira Sullivan, other name artists, toured with the Barnum & Bailey Circus in Japan. The jazz trumpet professor for 27 years, JB is the UNF Coordinator of Jazz Studies, Director of the Great American Jazz Series, and Director of the acclaimed UNF JE 1 big band. A Warburton Signature Trumpet Artist, mentored by Rich Matteson, Dr. Bill Prince, and Arturo Sandoval, JB brings classic swing, Miami Latin, and New Orleans flair to the stage.

Jeff Phillips: much in demand pianist and accompanist, respected bandleader of his own groups, Jeff is known for his vast tune knowledge and versatile style. Freelancing for years with jazz notables Bill Allred Classic Jazz Band at Rosy O’Grady’s and the jazz festival circuit, Jeff was a staff soloist at Walt Disney World’s Grand Floridian Resort and in the Society Orchestra. On many CD projects, he is a regarded private teacher and instructor at Harrison High SOTA in Lakeland.

Jay Mueller: worked with the Bill Holman and Tom Kubis big bands, San Bernardino Civic Opera, on numerous studio dates, jingles for British Petroleum, on the hit television show “Wings.” He played with Bob Crosby and the Bobcats, Florida Symphony, Rosy O’Grady’s Goodtime Jazz band, Bill & John Allred, on Broadway shows CATS, A Chorus Line, The Phantom of the Opera. Jay is a long-time staff musician at Walt Disney World.

Clyde Connor: former drummer of the United States Navy Commodores in D.C, Clyde is the jazz drum and a big band director at UF. A much in demand free-lance artist, he’s appeared on Beldwin, Warner Bros, other labels, small group, big band, Broadway, major symphony shows, and performed and recorded with numerous jazz notables.