Davy Jones is a native Floridian, and currently works at Walt Disney World where he is the featured cornetist with the Grand Floridian Society Orchestra. Over the past twenty years of his jazz career he has been privileged to share the stage with many great jazz artists such as: Don Mopsick, Wild Bill Davidson, Billy Butterfield, Johnny Mince, Knocky Parker, Flip Phillips, Spiegle Willcox, Tommy Newsom, Warren Vaché Jr. and many others.

During his travels he has appeared at numerous jazz festivals in the United States, Canada, Europe, and in 1992 traveled with The Black Dog Jazz Band on a ground-breaking concert tour of mainland China.

The High Sierra Jazz Band is a hard-driving, energetic band playing west coast style music ala Turk Murphy and Lu Watters. The band was formed in 1976, and still has four of the original members. Their home base is Three Rivers, California. The band has a repertoire of several hundred tunes.

Band members are Pieter Meijers, reeds, leader; Bryan Shaw, cornet; Stan Huddleston, banjo and guitar; Earl McKee, tuba and vocals; Howard Miyata, trombone; Bruce Huddleston, piano; and Charlie Castro, drums.

 

Jean’s infectious good spirits, “realistic” vocals, and barrel-house piano, joined with Red Lehr’s incredible feats on sousaphone, Bobby Grimm’s impeccable banjo rhythms, and Don Schroeder’s imaginative drums, create an awesome rhythm section to back up an impressive front line. The hot cornet of Steve Lilley, the driving clarinet and hauntingly melodic soprano sax of Noel Kaletsky, and the swinging tailgating trombone of Jim Maihack strut out front, leading this mighty fine traditional Dixieland jazz band.

 

 

Members of the Orchestra are Geoff Power, cornet; Adrian Cunningham, reeds; Jim Elliott, trombone, tenor sax and clarinet; Peter Locke, piano; Liam O’Connell, banjo and guitar; Harry Harman, tuba and string bass; and Josh Duffee, drums.

 

 

Band members are Mike Durham, trumpet; Paul Munnery, trombone; Tom (Spats) Langham, guitar, banjo and ukulele; Frans Sjostrom, bass saxophone; Norman Field, clarinet; and Paul Asaro, piano.  Josh Duffee will be sitting in with the band on drums.

 

 

 

Band members will consist of Warren Vaché, trumpet; John Allred, trombone; Rosanno Sportiello, piano; Frank Tate, bass; and LeRoy Williams, drums. Alan Vaché will sit in with the band on clarinet when not scheduled with the Davy Jones band.

 

Band members will be Dave Tatrow, trumpet; Chuck Moss, trombone; David Bennett, clarinet; Jeff Phillips, piano; Frank Steed, bass; Dave Miller banjo and guitar; and Milt Sernick, drums.

The West End Jazz Band has, for the past 32-plus years, recreated the classic music that typifies the twenties and thirties using original arrangements and instrumentation that is true to the style of the era.  The band was organized by Mike Bezin, who had a great love for early jazz but was tired of hearing the same traditional tunes played by other jazz bands.  The repertoire of West End consists of a broad representation of the music of this golden age, hot and sweet dance and jazz.  Featured are the pure jazz numbers, the nonsense songs, the up-tempo tunes and also the beautiful ballads. 

West End has been invited to some of the most prestigious jazz festivals, played concerts throughout the United States and has also toured Europe twice, which included an important week-long engagement at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Nice, France.  The band has recorded seven CDs and makes an annual train trek with private cars to the Blue Lantern, an historic dance hall on Hudson Lake, Indiana, where Bix Beiderbecke played for a summer engagement 1926.  Also, they have regularly played the Sunday Jazz Brunch at the celebrated Milk Pail near Elgin, Illinois for over 12 years. Come enjoy the nostalgic and danceable music of The West End Jazz Band.