Ken Stout

Ken Stout is a veteran jazz/rock musician, director, educator, and studio musician performing Jazz, Blues, Rock, Classical, Latin, and all musical styles of music for over 43 years.  Ken founded Live Music Center in Vacaville in 1987, promoting,  advocating, and saving music arts education in the local public schools in Northern California until 2005.  Ken has toured, performed on stage and recorded with many legendary Jazz, Motown, and Rock Music artists and groups: The Live Lawrence Welk Show, The Cab Calloway Orchestra, Guy Lombardo Orchestra, Bobby Short Jazz Orchestra, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Mary Wilson and The Supremes, The Platters, The Contours, Jackie King(Willie Nelson guitarist), Pete Christilieb(Saxophonist, Natalie Cole), Mark Little(grammy nominee Pianist), Stan Marks(Trumpet, Stan Kentons Big Band), Mic Gillette(Tower of Power)and many others. Ken has opened up with his fellow band members for Jeffery Osbourne, Tom Scott, Fatburger, The Drifters, and The Marshall Tucker Band. Ken has recorded with many award-winning vocalists and bands throughout Northern California.  Ken's most memorable Rock and Roll Sax solo recordings were with Trent & Wayne Gardner's progressive rock group "Megallen" in recording their 1995 international hit "Moon Revisited Album, of their remake tribute of Pink Floyd's "Money". Ken toured in Europe with the Ron Cunha All-Star Big Band, representing the United States in the summer of 2003. Ken has performed throughout California and Nevada at many Jazz Festivals, receiving many jazz solo awards, and performed at many State & county Fairs, Resorts, and special events. Ken is band director of the Alive Music Orchestra and Ken Stout Band and regularly performs with fellow jazz musicians Peter Petty, Steve Krohn, Jimmy Malone, Delbert Bump, Ron Davis, Rich Defazio, Steve Garland of the Viva Santana Band, Kenny Clark, and many other musicians in the Sacramento and Bay Area. Ken has studied jazz with Saxophonists Frank Bigoski, Greg Yasiniski, and Michael McMullen. Ken's specialty is Traditional and Contemporary Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Blues, R&B, Rock, and Big Band. Ken's influences are David Sanborn, Phil Woods, Cannonball Adderley, Grover Washington Jr, and Michael Breaker. Ken Stout is the President of the Vaca Jazz Society's Vacaville Jazz Festival, founded in 1999 by his twin brother Keith Stout. Ken performs with his bands and often with his family members: Brette Alana, Terrie, Keith, Art, Julie, Keaton, and soon-to-be his grandson Ayden Stout.  Please visit < www.vacajazzsociety.org or  www.livemusicdsj.com for more information about Ken or the Vaca Jazz Society, Vacaville Jazz Festival, and Nut Tree Plaza Concert Performance Series.  

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