Jeff Kollman

Besides his world wide guitar hero status, Jeff is an in demand session guitarist, co writer, and producer for rock legends to the up and coming young bands under his production company known as "Crumb Bros".

Jeff is also busy writing and placing songs for film and Television. Credits include Sahara, Fantastic 4, Eight Below, Ice Age II, Rounders, Slither, Showtimes “Masters Of Horror” series to name a few.

Kollman has been voted among the top 20 favorite guitarists in Young Guitar Magazines readers poll along side the likes of Santana, Jeff Beck, and Edward Van Halen.

Jeff's latest venture is JKB, a versatile, hi-energy power trio. With their debut outing "Bleeding the Soul", Kollman steps up to the mike delivering an edgy, moody, no holes barred vocal performance for the first time in his diverse career.

in 2007, Kollman and collaborator Jono Brown landed a Super Bowl commercial for Garmin GSP navigation systems. The 30second spot aired just before Super Bowl XLI half-time and featured vocals by Grim Reaper frontman Steve Grimmett. That same year, Kollman, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and keyboardist Ed Roth, who had met playing with Glenn Hughes, formed an all-instrumental band inspired by their shared love of 70s funk rock and fusion. Still unnamed at the time, the group, rounded out by Kollman's former Edwin Dare bandmate Kevin Chown on bass, debuted at the 2008 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. The band became Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats upon the release of their debut album, Meet the Meatbats, in 2009. More Meat followed in 2010, and a live recording, Live Meat and Potatoes, in 2012.

Kollman would team up with Glenn Hughes for a tour of Europe in 2009, documented via the Live In Wolverhampton 2-CD and DVD release, recorded over the course of two nights, June 6 and 7, in the singer's hometown of Bilston, England. Returning to the UK in 2011, Kollman appeared at the Goodwood Festival of Speed by special invitation of Lord March, playing the Star Spangled Banner on the roof of Goodwood House on July 4; Brian May of Queen also performed.

In 2012, Kollman released Silence in the Corridor, his first studio solo album in more than a dozen years. The album's title track is a tribute to Gary Moore, and the title was inspired by Moore's 1982 solo album, Corridors of Power. It was followed by the release of two digital-only singles, "Waiting in Dark Places" and "Electric Overload", the latter a duet with fellow guitarist Jeff Marshall.

In the early morning hours of December 15, 2012, Kollman's brother Tommy was shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy in Fort Myers Beach, Florida.[18] A memorial concert event was held in the brothers' old stomping grounds in South Toledo, Ohio, on May 24 and 25, 2013, with Cosmosquad headlining. Kollman released a digital single, "Brother to Brother", as a tribute in July 2013.

Kollman joined drummer Ray Luzier, bassist Billy Sheehan and DJ Sluggo for a performance at the 25th anniversary Guitar Center Drum-Off at L.A.'s Club Nokia on January 18, 2014 where he also played with Bombastic Meatbats who were joined by special guest Steve Lukather. He released two new digital-only singles, "Eve of Reflection" and "Old Kentucky Thunder", on January 27, 2014.[22] Two more digital singles, "In The Hills of Granada" and "Another Rainy Saturday", were made available March 17, 2014.

In February 2014, Kollman filled in for guitarist Marc Bonilla with California Transit Authority (CTA), led by legendary founding member and drummer of Chicago, Danny Seraphine, for a handful of U.S. East Coast shows. Later that same month he would join old friend Mark Mikel on the inaugural Progressive Nation at Sea cruise, masterminded by former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy.[24] Released on YouTube in March 2014, Kollman collaborated with fusion trio 107и on a cover of Bill Bruford's "Beelzebub" off his 1978 solo album, Feels Good to Me.

In July 2014, Kollman released the mostly acoustic Hills of Granada album, including "In the Hills of Granada", "Another Rainy Saturday", "Old Kentucky Thunder", "Eve of Reflection", "Brother to Brother", "Electric Overload" and "Waiting In Dark Places", all previously released as digital singles.

After featuring on the 2012 "Seasons Will Change" single and video with Asia Featuring John Payne, Kollman also took part in the recording of 2014's Recollections: A Tribute to British Prog, which contains covers by King Crimson, ELP, Yes, Genesis, and The Alan Parsons Project, among others. The aforementioned "Seasons Will Change" would re-surface in early 2018 as part of the eponymous debut album by Dukes Of The Orient, spearheaded by John Payne and keyboardist Erik Norlander.

In the summer of 2015, Kollman joined former Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach for a run of U.S. dates and for a second consecutive year toured Japan with vocalist Eikichi Yazawa, highlighted by the 'Rock In Dome' show at Tokyo's giant Tokyo Dome on September 5, 2015, documented via the Rock In Dome Blu-Ray and DVD release. Kollman was back with Yazawa for yet another tour of Japan in late 2016.

In the fall of 2016, Kollman released Jeff & Tommy Kollman - Teenage Metal Years, a compilation of early all-instrumental demos recorded in 1983 and '84 on a Fostex X-15 4-track recorder in their parents' basement with his late brother Tommy on drums. Kollman would also surface in yet another progressive rock project, Artifact, alongside vocalist Jeff Scott Soto, drummer Joel Taylor, flutist/saxophonist Gary Meek, bassist Eugene Sharikov, and keyboardist Edward Tsiselsky whose debut single Life Is Good was issued in October 2016; the band's full-length debut, also titled Life Is Good, surfaced in August 2017 under the name RTfact. Everyone but Soto had previously worked together on the more jazz oriented 2015 album Revelation by Yuri Volodarsky & Friends. Kollman, Taylor and Meek had also taken part in recording the yet-to-be-released Vision of Sound - The King Crimson Story tribute album, a Russian-American collaborate effort spearheaded by Sharikov and keyboardist Dmitry Ilugdin.

In early 2017, Kollman returned with his long running progressive metal/fusion trio, Cosmosquad, and their first new release in a decade, titled The Morbid Tango. On May 9, it was announced that Kollman would join the Alan Parsons Live Project for their 13-city "I Robot & Greatest Hits" tour of Germany that same month. He has since joined Parsons on a permanent basis and subsequently appeared on his 2019 album, The Secret.

In September 2017, Kollman reunited with Glenn Hughes for a tour of Australia and New Zealand performing the music of Deep Purple focusing on the band's Mk III and Mk IV eras that featured Hughes. Kollman also toured the U.S. with Hughes in August and September 2018. More recently, Kollman has played guitar for legendary vocalist Lou Gramm of Foreigner fame, with Asia feat. John Payne becoming Gramm's de facto new backing band in 2019.

On March 18, 2021, Kollman released the song "Superstring Theory" as a digital single on his Bandcamp site and announced a May 21 release date for his sixth instrumental solo album, East of Heaven, with contributions from long time collaborators Shane Gaalaas and Jono Brown on drums, Cirque du Soleil music director, Paul Shihadeh, on bass, and his Eikichi Yazawa band mate, Guy Allison, on keyboards.

On April 30, 2021, Kollman released a newly re-discovered version of "A Jam For Jason", which originally appeared on Warmth in the Wilderness: A Tribute to Jason Becker in 2001, to raise funds for ALS stricken musician Jason Becker. Dubbed Cosmosquad & The Jasonauts - "A Jam For Jason MMXXI", the Bandcamp exclusive features the original Cosmosquad line-up of Kollman, Shane Gaalaas, and Barry Sparks, and lead guitar contributions from Chris Poland, Vinnie Moore, Patrick Lachman, and Steve Morse.

2022 saw Kollman tour with both the Alan Parsons Live Project and Ekichi Yazawa in Japan. He also played on Parsons' latest studio album, From the New World, co-writing the songs "The Secret" and "Obstacles". On January 13, 2023, he released the Miles Davis inspired digital single, "Green for Miles", a collaboration with Yazawa band mate, Guy Allison, and announced that he was working on a new studio album. The line-up would include Shane Gaalaas and Steve Jenkins on drums and bass, respectively, as well as special guests such as Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bombastic Meatbats drummer, Chad Smith.