Kimotion Fact Sheet

Kimo Williams and Kimotion — formerly known as The Paumalu Symphony — was formed in 1975 while Kimo was a student at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Kimo formed his own Symphonic-BigBand-Rock ensemble to express his eclectic compositional concepts for large ensemble, centered on his unique harmonic technique called Diagonal Harmony.

Over the years Kimo Williams and Kimotion has featured many of the country's leading instrumentalists, with current members drawn from Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.

The ensemble combines four trumpets, four trombones, five saxes, two guitars, keyboards, percussion, bass, drums, two violins, viola, and cello — delivering high-energy music that merges rock with jazz and everything in between.