Name: Ryan Kisor Trio - World Class Jazz!
Start: 2025-01-04T20:00:00-06:00
Location: 416 Pierce Street, Sioux City, IA, United States, Iowa 51101

Ryan Kisor was born in 1973 in Sioux City, Iowa, and began playing trumpet at age 4. In 1990, he won first prize at the Thelonious Monk Institute’s first annual Louis Armstrong Trumpet Competition; in 1991, he enrolled in Manhattan School of Music where he studied with trumpeter Lew Soloff, joining the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in 1994.
Kisor has performed and/or recorded with the Mingus Big Band, the Gil Evans Orchestra, Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan, and Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, as well as the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and the Philip Morris Jazz All-Stars, among others.
In addition to being an active side person, Kisor has recorded several albums as a leader including Battle Cry (1997), The Usual Suspects (1998), and Point of Arrival (2000).