Jordan Katz is a Los Angeles-based trumpet player, banjo player, and composer. He has toured with Brother Ali and De La Soul, founded the LACon residency, played both trumpet and banjo with the indie-folk band Common Rotation, and has performed and/or recorded with such luminous musicians as Lucinda Williams, Jimmy Cliff, David Berkeley, Lee DeWyze, Indigo Girls, Ghostface Killah, Blues Traveler, Jason Crosby, and many, many others.