Search - Artist/Band: Ryan Kisor

• Name: Ryan Kisor
• Birthday: 04/12/1973
• Birth Place: Sioux City, IA
• Decades Active: 1990,2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Post-Bop, Straight-Ahead Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz, Hard Bop
• Moods: Passionate, Sophisticated, Brooding, Cathartic, Cerebral, Aggressive, Complex, Earthy, Fiery, Intense, Intimate, Provocative, Stylish, Visceral, Ambitious, Energetic, Searching, Uncompromising, Urgent

Title	Release
Conception Cool and Hot	04/29/2008
Best of Best 2000-2006	10/09/2007
Best of Best: Selected by Terashima Yasuk	06/30/2007
One Finger Snap: Incredible Ryan	02/06/2007
This Is Ryan	03/14/2006
Donna Lee W	02/25/2004
Awakening WA	09/23/2003
The Sidewinder WA	01/22/2003
The Dream WA	03/12/2002
Kisor II	03/22/2001
Power Source	02/27/2001
Point of Arrival	02/08/2000
Kisor	01/26/2000
Usual Suspects WA	08/11/1998
Battle Cry	05/05/1998
On the One	04/13/1993
Minor Mutiny	1992

One of the youngest of the so-called Young Lions, Ryan Kisor first gained attention when he won the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz's first trumpet competition in 1990 at age 17. He had earlier studied trumpet with his father, played with a local band when he was ten, and started studying classical music two years later. Kisor discovered jazz at 14 and developed quickly, playing both jazz and classical music locally. In the summer of 1988, he was inspired at a jazz camp by Clark Terry. After winning the Monk contest, he was signed by Columbia, coming out with a couple of interesting if slightly premature CDs as a leader. Since that time, Ryan Kisor (whose originality has developed gradually) has freelanced around New York, most notably with the Mingus Big Band and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide