BIO
Jordan Katz is an L.A.-based composer, bandleader, music supervisor and musician.
His work appears on tv, in films, video games and commercials. You can hear him on Grammy-winning albums and on television. Or catch him playing live around Los Angeles. He's the one carrying a trumpet and a banjo.
His work includes regular score appearances on This is Us, Bob’s Burgers and NCIS New Orleans. When the Late Late Show with James Corden needs a horn section, they call him to arrange and lead. For three years he was the bandleader and composer on TNT's rap battle royale Drop The Mic. He’s co-written and produced 1 song per episode for Amazon’s Stinky and Dirty Show as well as musical directed popular live podcast The Thrilling Adventure Hour, And he arranged brass for the acclaimed video game Red Dead Redemption 2, which sold over $700 million worth of copies in its first three days.
Katz's studio work is also extensive with credits that include Executive Producer of De La Soul's most recent album And The Anonymous Nobody, Charlyne Yi's Open Your Heart and Regent Street by Dan Bern.
Over the past two decades he's played with artists from Gaby Moreno to Devendra Banhart, M83 to the Indigo Girls, Fitz and the Tantrums to Ghostface Killah, and even manages to still get out on tour occasionally. Last summer he spent with on the road with Father John Misty and Jason Isbell.
He's excited to hear about your project.
photo by Liezl Espinoza
Contact
trumpetjory@me.com