THE WANDA HOUSTON BAND

40's, 50's & '60s R&B and Jazz

Songs on our new CD "Lucky So & So"

· Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby (Jordan)
· Taking A Chance On Love (Duke, Touche & Fetter)
· I'm Just A Lucky So and So (Ellington & Hilbbler)
· Fool On The Hill (Lennon & McCartney)
· A Tisket A Tasket (Fitzgerald & Feldman)
· Big Yellow Taxi (Mitchell)
· Centerpiece (Edison & Hendricks)
· Spanish Harlem (Leiber & Spector)
· Guantanamera (Fernandez & Strong)
· I Heard I Through The Grapevine (Whitfield & Strong)
· March Morning (Stevens)

Robert Kelly began studying ragtime, jazz and classical repertoire at the age of five. Early influences include Oscar Peterson, Teddy Wilson and Dave Brubeck. He attended Berklee College of Music and traveled to many parts of the globe as the pianist with the United States Coast Guard Band. He has performed with Roberta Flack, Cheryl Bentyne of Manhattan Transfer, Dick Hyman, Dave McKenna, and Larry Coryell to name a few. For more about Rob: www.robertkellymusic.net

Jeff Stevens Jeffrey Stevens is a graduate of the Hartt School of Music and holds a Masters degree from California State University. He began teaching at the Berkshire School and went on to spend 34 years as the Director of Bands for the Berkshire Hills Regional School District. He has also taught at the Empire Brass seminar at Tanglewood, the Hotchkiss School, and Westfield State University. In 1986, he was given the "Outstanding Arts Educator Award" by the Massachusetts Alliance for Arts Education. 

Jeff has appeared throughout the Northeast as a member of the Wanda Houston Band, Berkshire Brass Quintet, the Amherst Jazz Orchestra, the Bluestars and the Advanced Phunk Band. He has performed with the Barrington Stage Company, Tri-Arts Theater Company, Berkshire Opera, the Berkshire Bach Society, and the Empire Brass. He has also performed with John Williams, Peter Serkin, Rolf Smedvig, Allan Dean, Kenny Rogers, Arlo Guthrie, David Bromberg, Natalie Cole, Cladio Roditi, Lew Soloff, Roger Voison, Bob Mintzer, The Yellowjackets, Peter Erskine, Yosef Lateef , John Abercrombie,  Ernie Watts, Steve Turre, Karrin Allyson, Livingston Taylor, the Temptations and The Four Tops.

Jay Bradley  holds degrees in music from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and the College of Saint Rose in Albany.   He teaches percussion at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, CT and was  elementary band director at Webutuck Central Schools from 2001-2021. He plays extensively in the Litchfield and Berkshire County area and his calendar is filled with a wide variety of music work from jazz, pop and R&B to orchestral.   A list of work includes: Heth Bradley & Houston, The Wanda Houston Band,  Hotchkiss Philharmonic, Salisbury Town Band and Sharon Playhouse Pit Orchestra from 2006-2014.