Arnett Howard

Howard first started playing music professionally in 1967. He was a member of several local bands including "The Soul Internationals", "The Vadicans", "The Metronomes", "Dave Workman's Blues Band", "Cash McCall and his Bumswipe Blues Band Boys" and "The Soul Superbs". He led "Arnett Howard's Creole Funk Band" from 1988 to 2002, and became such a legend in the Columbus region that he is now an ambassador for the City of Columbus. Howard retired from Croele Funk Band in 2002, and his new band is simply called "Arnett Howard & Friends". Since 1985, Howard has performed more than 4,000 concerts in central Ohio and around the world.

Arnett Howard (born September 6, 1950) is an American jazz musician, journalist, teacher, historian, and ambassador for Columbus, Ohio, United States.

Arnett was born September 6, 1950 in Welch, West Virginia, United States, but was raised in Plain City, Ohio. In 1968 he graduated from Jonathan Alder High School, where he played trumpet in the school's marching band. After high school, he started taking classes at Capital University in 1968, but left college in 1970 to pursue his musical career. He eventually graduated from Capital in 1999. Howard returned to Capital University in 2007, as a teacher, to teach a class called "Columbus Jazz History". He has also co-authored the books Columbus: The Musical Crossroads, Listen for the Jazz: Key Notes in Columbus History, and Ohio Jazz: A History of Jazz in the Buckeye State.