Band Members

Band Members

Brian Keeler, guitar
Brian has been playing guitar for many years, but in the last decade or so he has focused on swing music,  especially on Django Reinhardt’s “manouche” style of guitar playing. He is the founder of Zingology and has seen it through several iterations while performing, recording and growing into its current incarnation.  Brian has been inspired by participating in the annual Django in June music camp in Northampton, MA for several years.  He plays regularly at some of the jazz jams around Ithaca and occasionally plays for art openings with friends in Scranton, PA and other locales. Brian has been a swing dancer for decades along with being involved in several dance troupes. He sometimes teaches a class in Lindy, Balboa, Salsa, Fox trot or West Coast Swing before a gig with Zingology. He is also an accomplished painter. His work can be seen  keelernorthstarstudio.com.

Joanna Green, violin and vocals
Joanna studied classical violin as a child until, at age 15, she decided it was uncool. Her trusty fiddle languished in its case for over a decade until she picked it up to try out some Ellington tunes with her husband-and bandmate-to-be, Art Godin. In the 40-plus years since those days she has played and sung in numerous local bands including Shiney Capeen, The Mammals, The Shuffletones, Walt Amy and the Hepcats, Jasmine, Lorelei, The B-Side, Littlewheel, Zingology and Green Street Jazz.

Ted Caldwell, upright bass
Ted Caldwell fell in love with jazz and the acoustic bass while growing up in Western Canada. The instrument accompanied him on moves to Montreal and then to Ithaca, New York – where it unfortunately sat in the basement for a while. In recent years the romance was rekindled, and Ted has enjoyed playing with a growing list of jazz and swing combos in and around Ithaca, including Zingology, The Canaan Jazz Trio, Doc’sology, De Wayne Perry & Friends, and in the “Sandwich Sessions” with Jesse Collins and others at Brookton’s Market. He is an avid bicyclist and hiker.

Greg Ezra, percussion
A drum set player since his teens, Greg also plays doumbek (darbuka), frame drum, kudum and poyk.  He performs in a variety of genres: jazz, blues, rock, “Gypsy swing”, Middle Eastern, Klezmer, Celtic and Mevlevi (Sufi) music. Greg has performed with numerous local bands and ensembles, and currently plays with Green Street, Zingology, 79 West,  Taksim, the Ithaca Klezmer Quartet, and the Michele Gordon Jazz combo.