Endorsements
Meet the Band
Ian Melrose
Ian Melrose is currently an 8th and 9th grade band teacher at Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School in Sun Prairie, WI where he teaches concert band, jazz band, and small group lessons. He was director of the Sound of Sun Prairie Marching Band from 2011 - 2016. Ian has a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from UW-Madison, a master’s in Tuba Performance from University of Georgia, and a master’s degree in Educational Leadership from UW-Madison. Ian is grateful to be a part of the the Red Hots to learn and perform this music with wonderful people and musicians. Ian and his wife, Cindy, have three children (Maddie, Jersey, & Theo).
Douglas Terhune
Doug grew up in Hopewell, NJ and attended Princeton High School. He came to WI and attended Carroll College where he earned a Bachelor of Music Education. In 1978 he received a Masters of Music Education degree from VanderCook College of Music. He taught for 34 years in the Monona Grove school District. In his spare time he is a freelance musician and has performed with the Jimmy Hartwig Orchestra, Dick Jurgens Orchestra, Jan Garber Orchestra, and Guy Lombardo Orchestra in addition to small combo work. He has played with the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and the Beloit/Janesville Symphony Orchestra. Doug served as a clinician for the Ladies Must Swing Jazz Band. He is co-director of the Red Hot TradJazz Band. In retirement he became a Wisconsin School Music Association Clinician. He currently performs with the Capital City Band and the VFW Bands in Madison. Doug has a private lesson studio teaching sax and clarinet students ranging from middle school to adults. His leisure time is spent with his grandchildren and playing tennis with his wife, Karen.
Jamie Kember
Jamie Kember balances his passion for music as a performer, educator, and advocate. Jamie can be heard playing trombone with a wide range of ensembles including Automatic Lover, Don’t Mess with Cupid, Orquesta MAS, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and an ensemble he helps lead, The Big Payback. Jamie is the Band Teacher at La Follette High School and teaches music theory and the history of pop/rock music at Madison College where he also directs the Big Band and Jazz Ensemble. Jamie is active as a teaching artist encouraging young musicians throughout the midwest to be life-long music makers. Before moving to Madison to work on his Masters Degree in Trombone Performance at UW-Madison with Mark Hetzler, Jamie attended New England Conservatory of Music, studying with Norman Bolter, Ronald Barron and performing with Bob Brookmeyer's Jazz Composer's Orchestra, the Callithumpian Consort lead by Steven Drury, Boston Civic Symphony, and Harvard's Early Music Society. Jamie grew up in La Crosse, WI and was very fortunate to learn from many great dedicated music educators and trombonists, including R. Douglas Wright and Dr. James Wheat.
Joel Engelland
Joel has played banjo/guitar most of his life, starting in high school back in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Hired as the first banjoist to play at the Showboat Saloon in Wisconsin Dells, back in the 'banjo sing-a-long heyday' of the late 60's and 70's, lured him to Wisconsin during his college years. He ended up playing there 11 seasons as band leader. Joel's participation in music ensembles has included Sioux Falls; the University of South Dakota; Lincoln, NE; south central Wisconsin, including Madison (the Avenue Bar "Sizzlers"); and Germany. While stationed with the US Army in Germany in the early 70's, he formed a duo with a Philadelphia musician and won a US Army-Europe Entertainment Contest in Berlin, competing against contestants from all the Army bases throughout Europe. Joel also plays jazz/classical/folk guitar and is a Landscape Architect.
Brad Klotz
Brad teaches fifth through eighth grade band in Lake Mills and lives with his wife and daughter in Watertown. Originally from Franklin, WI, he earned his bachelors degree in music education through UW-Whitewater in 2001 and a masters in 2006 through UW-LaCrosse. Brad is happy making music in a variety of styles, having played with the progressive rock trio Strange Land, the Quark Quintet, Main Street Big Band (bari sax), and recorded with Direct Hit! (bari sax, flute). He also has played drums for Wisconsin’s ska sweethearts Something To Do for the past ten years. Al had a lapse of judgment and let Brad (a drummer) marry his daughter. The upshot has been having a sub drummer for Red Hot over the years. In 2016, Brad took over regular duties and has enjoyed diving deeper into the style of traditional New Orleans jazz ever since.
The Red Hot TradJazz Band (formerly Red Hot Dixie) plays at parades, summer park concerts, and private parties throughout southern Wisconsin. We love bringing the joy of Dixieland Jazz to our listeners.