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Hometown	Asheville, NC
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Band Members	Jordan Arnold: Drums and Percussion, 17, a Senior at AC... » more
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We are a young band from Asheville, North Carolina, creating our own style of music. The oldest band member is 17.
JTR started out in the fall of 2006 as a jam band. We played together a few months and wrote a song or two. A few band members came and...

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Video Grand Prize Winner May 2009

G7th Capo

February 2010 Jazz

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Earth Day Spectacular by http://www.citizen-times.com/a
Six top local acts perform at The Quality Forward Earth Day concert at 7 p.m.-midnight at The Orange Peel, 101 Biltmore Ave. The show includes Jazz the Ripper, Brushfire Stankgrass, Chris Cates and...

You Guys defined Ripping last night! by www.myspace.com/jazztheripper
Comment by Earth Day Asheville/ MySpace: You smoked it. Great job. Everyone was astounded at your level of musicianship. It was a pleasure to have you on the campaign. Thanks so much for your...

Benefit For Bobby Sax by Downtown Asheville.com
He lost everything in a fire, including all of his saxophones, and Bobby needs our help. Participating in the event will be professional musicians playing along with a youthful Asheville band, Jazz The Ripper.

Bobby Sax is part of what makes Asheville ... by
Asheville Citizen-Times: Letter to the Editor: Anyone who missed the Bobby Sax Benefit Concert at Diana Wortham probably missed the concert of the year. Vice Mayor Jan Davis noted Bobby Sax made Asheville unique, his kind of street sax found only in larger cities such as Atlanta or New York. Bobby was brought on stage and sat in with two local performing groups, one composed of local jazz musicians while the other featured an amazing teen group named Jazz the Ripper. While Bobby was sitting in with the teens, his solo performance of “Somewhere over the Rainbow” amazed the audience. Bobby then advised the boys, “Your hardest job will be to stay together, so get along with each other!” After they played F Blues with Bobby, the teen alto player volunteered to the audience, “When I was 10 years old, I walked up with new sax in hand and asked Bobby on the street, ‘How do I play this?’” Bobby’s answer must have been prophetic, proven by this 16-year-old’s performance at Diane Wortham last night. So when you see Bobby playing around Asheville, drop the man a $10 or $20 spot. You can spare it, because playing the sax for Asheville is Bobby’s full-time job. Gary Kallback, Weaverville

Watch Out This Young Band is Tearing Up the Town by The Laurel of Asheville
Five musicians, whose combined age is less than that of many jazz artists with whom we are familiar...are making a big name for themselves in the local music scene...

Jazz The Ripper: Age isn't always a make-or-break by Asheville Citizen-Times
Age isn't always a make-or-break factor in a musical group as the young, Asheville band Jazz the Ripper has shown. Drawing on the influence of their influence their heroes James Brown and Earth Wind and Fire, Jazz the Ripper are setting out on a musical voyage to create their own style. Get more info about Jazz The Ripper at http://www.sonicbids.com/JazzTheRipper Sunday, July 27, 1:45pm - Haywood Street Stage

Jazz The Ripper-Funky and Fresh by The Urban Music Scene
these 5 young men are ready, if not already, to make their mark on the jazz scene.

Young band plays the Peel by Asheville Citizen-Times
For many of us, the biggest thing that happened in high school was the senior prom. But for a growing community of students who attend A.C. Reynolds High School near Fairview, the years spent in the school's music program have been life changing. On Saturday night, Reynolds supporters gather again for the next big achievement in performance at the A.C. Reynolds Night at The Orange Peel in a benefit for the chorale and wind symphony's upcoming China tour. Performers Aaron LaFalce, Brushfire Stankgrass and Laura Blackley will join one of the youngest bands ever to play the Peel – Jazz the Ripper.

38 local artists you need to hear this summer by WNC Magazine -July 2009
Jazz the Ripper Go see this band as soon as possible, because four of its members just graduated from high school and are leaving for college to study music. Though the group has only been together for about three years, they’ve mastered the jazz-jam style of national touring acts like Galactic. Their instrumental songs fuse layers of drum, bass, and guitar-based funk while synthesizer, dueling tenor, and baritone saxophones do all the singing. All the members perform with a talent beyond their years, making it more disappointing to know that this is possibly their last summer playing in WNC.

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Stage size preferably at least 16 feet across and 8 feet deep. We have our own sound system, or for larger venues, we can integrate with a house system. Lighting, as required.

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