John Muellner

Drums

John was born into a Chicago musical family where everyone played an  instrument. As the house was always surrounded in sound, he began banging  rhythms using kitchen utensils on pots and pans.

In high school and college,  John played in the marching and concert bands, in his father’s big band, and of course... the obligatory rock-n-roll bands. Residing in Oregon since 1986, John has played drums in a rhythm and blues band, an Afro-Cubanismo group, for  straight-ahead jazz trios as well as a marching band. But jazz has always been  his heartbeat. All of his percussive history culminates in the Calamity Jazz  Band.