Hultman & Jazz Friends

The Carl Hultman & Jazz Friends band is a four piece band that plays primarily cool and beep-bop jazz in the Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderly tradition. The band is unique in that they play tight vocal and instrumental arrangements using two and three part vocal harmonies along with instrument/vocal arrangements. The band showcases the extraordinary saxophone playing of Bruce Johnstone, a nationally recognized player and arranger for Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, and other jazz greats. Along with Bruce the band has two other vocalists doing lead and harmony jazz singing. 

Carl Hultman leads the band, plays guitar, sings, and does the arranging for the band. Stan Kenton, The Hi-Lo’s, Manhattan Transfer, and other groups that know how to make arrangements with a big sound that swing have heavily influenced Carl. These musical influences are apparent when Carl’s band plays. Carl also believes that many people like to hear music…