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Kelso Jazz Room Mystic Isle Project (7) — MK @ the Jazz Room

Kelso Jazz Room Mystic Isle Project (107) — Mystic Isle Project

Kelso Jazz Room Mystic Isle Project (75) — Pondering Mark

Yamaha video shoot 2

Yamaha video shoot 1

MK Richard Page — Richard Page Group

2020 Juno Nominee — Juno nominee 2020

MK promo shot 1

MK promo shot 2

Second Drumeo shoot

W/Donny MacCaslin & Neil Swainson

Roberto Occhipinti quartet

Drumhead Article

MK & Pat Metheny

Singing w/ Pat Metheny

MKPMMD — Pat M, MK, Mike Downes

Monkey House live — Monkey House Live

Smiling Mark

48367312_10155542623207242_654784613431902208_o — Natalie MacMaster/Donnell Leahy band

UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_39ee — Monkey House

2018-08-27 Mark Kelso — Distinguished Faculty award from Humber College

Mark-Kelso-Instagram — Yamaha poster

In the studio

Alain Caron trio

Richard Page (Mr. Mister) band

Richard Page (Mr. Mister) group

Live on stage

Toronto drummer hang

MK promo 3

MK promo 4

JUNO Nomination for The Jazz Exiles — JUNO Awards 2016 Nomination for The Jazz Exiles

MK Studio

Mark Kelso — MK promo 5

Pat Metheny, Mike Downes & Mark Kelso — Pat Metheny, Mike Downes & MK

Pat Metheny, Mike Downes & Mark Kelso — Pat Metheny, Mike Downes & MK

Joe Lovano & Mark Kelso — Joe Lovano & MK

Mark & Benny Greb @ Victoria Drum Festival

Mark w/ Luis Conte and Steve Gadd — Luis Conte, MK and Steve Gadd

Brian Blade & MK @ Koerner Hall

photo_1 — George Koller, MK, Larry Coryell

MK & J.R. Robinson @Yamaha groove night

Stanton Moore, ?, Matt Halpern, Emmanuelle Caplette, Aaron Spears & MK @ Regina drum ferst

Mark Kelso & Herbie Hancock — MK & Herbie Hancock

MK at 12 on Dad’s left handed kit — MK at 12 on Dad's left handed kit

Mark Kelso & David Garibaldi — MK & David Garibaldi

Roberto Occhipinti, Mark, Hilario Duran — Roberto Occhipinti, MK, Jovino Santos Neto & Hilario Duran

Joni Mitchell & Mark

Mark Kelso & Steve Gadd — MK & Steve Gadd @ Humber

Tony Allen & Mark Kelso — MK & Afrobeat legend Tony Allen

Danllo Perez & MK @ Koerner Hall

Lewis, Brouchu, Kelso Montreal Drumfest

Mike Downes, Maria Schneider & Mark Kelso — Mike Downes, Maria Schneider & MK

Joe LaBarbera, Pat LaBarbera, Roberto Occhipinti & Mark Sicily

Mark Kelso, Abdoulaye Alhassane, Jaymz Bee, Artie Roth & Ernie Toller — Abdoulaye Alhassane, MK, Artie Roth & Ernie Toller

Hart House, U of T, Toronto

James Taylor & Mark Kelso — James Taylor & MK

photo_4 — MK & Dave Grusin

Mark Kelso & John Scofield — John Scofield & MK

MK & Peter Murphy on tour

Mike Stern & Mark Kelso — Vaughan Misener, Mike Stern, MK, Ted Quinlan

Gino Vannelli & Mark Kelso in Copenhagen — Gino Vannelli & MK in Copenhagen

Walfredo de los Reyes and Horacio El Negro Hernandez @ NAMM

MK Studio — MK Studio promo

Mark Kelso & Changuito — MK & Changuito

Yamaha Drum Artist Autograph Session 2016

Yamaha Drum Artists 2015 — Yamaha Drum Artist hang at Namm 2016

drummers — Don Vickery - 40 years of teaching at Humber

lamberg_2 — MK and his Lambeg drum

Live in Tampa

MK Head Shot — MK headshot by Marie Byers

Denise Grant promo 1

Mark Kelso 5 Aces

Denise Grant promo 2

Denise Grant promo 3

MK DVD promo 1

MK kit promo

MK DVD promo 2

MK kit promo 2

MK seated kit promo — MK DVD cover promo

MK DVD 6

MK DVD 5 — MK seated kit promo

MK kit promo 3

Mark in Italy

Art project by Taylor Thornley

w/ the Susan Tedeschi band

MK & Bernard Purdie at KOSA

MK & Christian McBride

W/ Larry Davidson

Yamaha Phoenix kit

Negro, Sput MK Quebec 2017

Hilario Duran Ronnie Scott’s — Hilario Duran Ronnie Scott's

Nat & Donnell

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Mark & Larnell Duet @ Ralph Angelillo Drum fest

Ralph Angelillo Festival

Yamaha 50th poster — Yamaha 50th Anniversaryry

Shine On1 — MK promo

Luis Conte, MK, Gadd, Dad

Larnell, Mark, Marito,MK, Efa, Sarah — Canadian Yamaha drummers -Larnell, Mark, Marito, MK, Efa, Sarah

On stage

Canada’s Wonderland 1983 — Canada's Wonderland 1983

Sinal Aberto — Gordon Sheard's Sinal Aberto

Perc kit

Montunos — The Montuno Police

Odessa:Havana — Odessa/Havana

EXiles (Rex 2024) — Jazz Exiles @ the REX

Screenshot 2024-04-08 at 9.42.05 AM — 2023 JUNO Nominees

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