The Jay Klum/Bill Heid Quartet

Bill Heid, vocalist and keyboardist, has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe with stays in Japan and Singapore. From 1965 to the mid-70s he played the Hammond B-3 organ in clubs with his own groups and artists such as Jimmy Ponder, Bruce Foreman, Grant Green, Sonny Stitt, David “Fathead” Newman, Grachan Monchur III, Eddie Gladden, and Mickey Roker. While based in Chicago from 1975 to 1984, he fronted his own groups and toured with blues artists Son Seals, Jimmy Witherspoon, John Lee Hooker, and Fenton Robinson, and played on several Alligator Records with Robinson, Ko Ko Taylor, and Roy Buchanan. Working and living in Detroit from 1984 until 1999, Heid appeared on numerous records with Detroit blues legends Johnnie Bassett, Joe Weaver, and Alberta Adams. A 2002 Jazz Ambassador, his group toured Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka. Recordings as a leader include This is My Rifle (Muse/Westside), Bop Rascal (Savant), Wet Streets (Savant), Dark Secrets (Savant) and many others.

Jay Klum, vocalist and pianist, performed from a young age in church and later with local jazz and Latin bands while studying music at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. After completing her studies, she moved to L.A. where she began making a name for herself at jazz venues that included Concerts By the Sea, The Blue Room, and the Candy Store. Klum toured Nigeria, Haiti, and Japan before performing full time in top jazz clubs in Japan for eight years. In 1991, Klum moved to New York City and her career continued to excel with engagements at Fat Tuesdays, the Village Gate, Sugar Hill, Green Avenue Grill, Tatou, Sweetwaters, and others. She was a finalist in the 1992 John Coltrane Competition and a featured vocalist on saxophonist Benny Russell’s European tour. Recordings include the soundtrack for the film In the Soup and drummer Leon Parker’s Above and Below. With husband and saxophonist Ted Klum, she formed Alltribe Music and Alltribe Records LLC under which her 2002 release Home Cookin’ appears.

Michael D. Petrosino, drummer, received the Ralph Faulk Music Scholarship from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is also a recipient of the Outstanding Performance Award at the Elmhurst Jazz Festival and the Tri C Jazz Festival. Petrosino has performed with Slide Hampton, Gladys Knight, Ron Afif, Bruce Barth, Ralph Lallama, Steve Allen, Gerri Allen, Ben Vereen, Lou Rawls, Jeannie Bryson, Laverne Butler, Chris Potter, Rick Margitza, Dena Derose, The Fifth Dimension, The Temptations, the Toledo Jazz Orchestra, the Bill Mobley Big Band, and the George Andre Brazilian Big Band. Petrosino toured Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia with the Bill Heid Trio as a 2002 Jazz Ambassador.

Patrick O’Leary, bassist, studied piano and bass at Potsdam State University’s Crane School of Music where he received his B.A. in music. Originally from Buffalo and now living in New York City, he has toured the U.S., Canada, Europe, South America, Australia, and Japan with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, the Illinois Jacquet Orchestra, the Hal Garper Trio, and Teri Thornton. Also with Hampton, he recorded the Grammy-nominated Sentimental Journey (Atlantic). O’Leary has recorded with J.R. Monterose, Mundell Lowe, Mel Lewis, Bucky Pizzarelli, Jerry Bergozi, and Scott Robinson. Other artists with whom O’Leary has played include Diana Krall, James Moody, Junior Cook, Lee Konitz, Joe Lovano, Barry Harris, Junior Mance, Joe Williams, and Marlena Shaw. He regularly appears at The Blue Note, The Village Vanguard, Bradley’s, Fat Tuesdays, The Iridium, and has recently performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall. As a 2001 Jazz Ambassador, he toured West Africa, and in 2002 toured Southeast Asia and South America.

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2/24/04: The Jay Klum/Bill Heid Quartet

The Jay Klum/Bill Heid Quartet (vocalist/pianist Jay Klum, keyboardist/vocalist Bill Heid, drummer Michael Petrosino, bassist Patrick O’Leary), highlighting vocal jazz, kicks off its Kennedy Center / Department of State Jazz Ambassador’s tour to Southern Africa.

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