JAMES DELANO ZOLLAR began his musical career at age 9 playing bugle in his hometown, Kansas City Missouri. At 12, he graduated to the trumpet where he began to discover his musical voice and focus. In, 1984, he moved to New York and played with the Cecil McBee Quintet for five years and then recorded with Tom Harrell, with Weldon Erving and Sam Rivers. Zollar was featured in Robert Altman’s motion picture Kansas City, in Madonna’s music video My Baby’s Got a Secret, as well as Malcolm Lee’s film The Best Man and the sound track of The Perez Family. He is proud to be included in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. James was also a featured soloist with Jon Faddis and Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra as well as Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. He is currently playing with The Duke Ellington Orchestra, The Count Basie Orchestra, Don Byron’s Bands, The Marty Ehrlich Sextet, working with the Latin piano master Eddie Palmieri and Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga Live at Lincoln Center. James released the CD Zollar Systems in 2010 and the newest CD It’s All Good People in 2013