C. Warren Kellerhouse joined the Navy 1961, and served as Instructor at the U.S. Naval School of Music in Washington, DC, before serving as jazz pianist, arranger, composer for the U.S. Naval Academy Band from 1964 until his retirement in 1983.
Warren Kellerhouse arranged and composed many works for the Annapolis Brass Quintet over the years, and in 1983-4 he was commissioned by the Brass Chamber Music Society of Annapolis to write a major-length composition for the first ever collaborative concert by Charlie Byrd's Trio and the Annapolis Brass Quintet.
Kellerhouse named his three movement suite for jazz guitar, brass quintet and rhythm Byrd and Brass -- a name so perfect, that all future Charlie Byrd Trio/Annapolis Brass Quintet collaborations came to be known simply as... BYRD & BRASS.
Warren Kellerhouse arranged and composed many works for the Annapolis Brass Quintet over the years, and in 1983-4 he was commissioned by the Brass Chamber Music Society of Annapolis to write a major-length composition for the first ever collaborative concert by Charlie Byrd's Trio and the Annapolis Brass Quintet.
Kellerhouse named his three movement suite for jazz guitar, brass quintet and rhythm Byrd and Brass -- a name so perfect, that all future Charlie Byrd Trio/Annapolis Brass Quintet collaborations came to be known simply as... BYRD & BRASS.