Chris Rottmayer is a freelance jazz artist, composer, and jazz educator who calls Madison, WI his home. Two of his previous releases, So in Love and Sunday at Pilars, both spent considerable time on the Jazzweek jazz albums chart, reached #1 on the Roots Music Report’s jazz albums chart, and Sunday at Pilars was the #1 overall jazz album on the RMR chart’s 2021 jazz album chart. Besides his freelance jazz work, Rottmayer is also a Lecturer of Music Theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.