 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
Barry has played saxes and clarinet in dance bands since high school (only regrets-- never gets to dance with the ladies!). Besides the Swingtime Big Band, he also sings and plays reeds, guitar and banjo in a number of other groups ((Sax Appeal Saxophone Quartet, , Paramount Jazz Orchestra [pre-swing 1929s-30s"hot jazz"], Dixieland Express, Polyhymnia acappella Chamber Choir, Hometowne Barbershop Chorus, Scale Tippers Barbershop Quartet, Carefree Strangers Folk Group). He is especially inspired by two annual events: world-class performers at the Navy Band's Saxophone Symposium., and performing with his sax quartet at the Adult Chamber Music Workshop. Barry Davis grew up in rural/small-town Wyoming, lots of country music, not much classical. Earned a bachelor's in biology (Dartmouth and Earlham Colleges) in biology, did two years Alternative Service, community development and workcamps in France and India with International Voluntary Service, then earned a biochemistry Ph.D. from Univ. of Miami Medical School. As a college professor he did medical research at Washington University and taught at Montgomery College until retiring to recruit scientific reviewers who evaluate cancer research grant applications. |
| VICTOR AGRESTI, TRUMPET Trumpet in D.C. National Guard Band (early 1970's); member of Rockville Concert Band since 1965 http://www.rocknet.org/Leisure/band/ ) and principal trumpet for last 35 years; co-lead trumpet in the Montgomery Village Band http://www.geocities.com/mvcband/index.htm Former member of Virginia Grand Military Band http://www.vgmb.com and has played with numerous quintets and theater orchestras. Private lessons from Frank Chabrinski, professional Trumpeter; and Dr. Emerson Head, Professor of Trumpet Studies, University of Maryland. |
| FRED TALCOTT, UPRIGHT BASS Full-time environmental policy analyst; part-time musician and mural painter. Recent performance include public and private engagements with; quartets and quintets with jazz vocalist; the Hexagon Show; the British Embassy Players' Old Time Music Hall; The Arlington Players; the Tuba Christmas at the Kennedy Center and ceremonial music for the U.S Coast Guard, the U.S, EPA, and other Federal agencies. |
| BOB VERNIER, TRUMPET Born in Baltimore MD and played clarinet in school band from fourth grade through high school. Picked up trumpet at age 21 and have been playing in church, community, and small group organizations ever since including Perry Hall Baptist Church Orchestra, Naval Surface Warfare Center Concert Band, Rockville Concert Band, and Lochhaven Brass Quintet. Currently playing in the Browningsville Cornet Band, Paramount Jazz Orchestra, and Dixieland Express, in addition to the STBB. Day job is Aerospace Engineer at the Goddard Space Flight Center. |
| DON CHAPMAN, TRUMPET |
| JOHN STEWART, TROMBONE Retired, formerly with the Dept, of Energy. Also trombonist with the Dixieland Express and the Olney Community Band. Serves on the Potomac River Jazz Club Board |
| DAN REINHART, TROMBONE I started playing trombone almost 50 years ago by listening and trying to play along with my father's Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller records. Over the years, I've studied with several teachers, but I rarely have continued these lessons for more than a few months at a time. During those years I alternated between playing trombone and trumpet and not playing at all. In the 1980s I stopped playing trombone altogether and started practicing saxophone, performing regularly in public parks and Metro stations around DC. About 1990, I returned to playing trombone and started playing with several hot jazz and swing bands in the Washington metropolitan area. My greatest influences among trombonists include: Tommy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden, J. J. Johnson and Bill Watrous. |
| FRED HENDRICKS, BARI SAX Born Indianapolis, IN. Played in high-school marching, symphonic, and dance bands. Also played in Indianapolis News Newsboys Band age 12-15. Played in college dance-band based at Indiana University. Put horns away after college. Did not play another note (except piano) until about 3 years ago. Now play in STBB, sax/clarinet quartet, Montgomery Symphony, and Browningsville Cornet Band. Also collaborative arranging for STBB. |
| PAUL PINKHAM, GUITAR Early years- Cum Laude graduate of Berklee College of Music with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition. Worked with Atlantic recording artists" Black Heat". Also traveled with "Tonal Extensions" and "Jungle Rock" before retiring in 1979. Currently- Came out of retirement in 2001 to play with the Swing Time Big Band. |
| SUE HEGSTROM, VOCALIST Sue Ellen Hegstrom was born and raised in Iowa, and is a graduate of The University of Iowa and Kirkwood Community College Sue Received a music scholarship to the University of Iowa. Study with Paula Boire and Jocelyn Carmichael while a student at the University of Iowa. Sue has been singing since age of six in a variety of styles; country; pop; classical; Broadway and Jazz. In 2001, Sue joined Swing Time Big Band as principle vocalist. Ms. Hegstrom, in addition to singing, is also an avid reader and “scrapbooker”. She has two beautiful cats and is engaged to be married in the spring of 2006. |
| BRUCE DAVIES, PERCUSSIONIST Bruce Davies lives in North Potomac, Maryland and currently plays with several musical groups in the Washington metropolitan area. Bruce played with the North Carolina Symphony in Raleigh. Bruce studied privately with Scott Stevens and Saul Goodman. After graduating from Rice University, Bruce lives in North Potomac, and has three children: Adam, Sarah and Joey. |
| PAUL NISSON, ALTO SAX I played clarinet and alto sax in my elementary school band ('62-'65) and studied Jazz sax for one semester at Berklee College of music during my senior year at Harvard College (AB '75). After a 30 year hiatus, during which I got my Ph.D. in Biophysics, raised a family of three sons, now 15, 19 and 21, I took up the alto sax and clarinet again in earnest in January of '04 studying with Jim Bensinger, a superb local musician and teacher. Along with playing with Swing Time Big Band I also play clarinet with the Browningsiville band, under the directorship of Gerry Geisbert |
| BOB ALLEN, TRUMPET, TROMBONE MUSICAL DIRECTOR A native of upstate New York and lifelong “Drum Corps Nut”, Bob holds both BM (Music Education ’ 81) and MM (Brass Performance ’ 85) degrees from Ithaca College. After a three year stint teaching instrumental music in the New York public schools, he turned to a new career in Software Engineering and relocated to Clarksburg MD with his wife Palma and three kids in 1996. After a nearly 18 year hiatus from musical pursuits, Bob dusted off his horns in 2003 and since then has been active in a variety of performing groups throughout Frederick and Montgomery counties. His recent credits on French Horn, Trumpet, and Trombone include the Browningsville Cornet Band, Rockville and Montgomery Village Community Bands, Star Spangled Big Band, Swing Time Big Band, Village Jazz Band, Citizen’s Brass, and an assortment of smaller ensembles. |
| MARK NACHTIEB, TROMBONE Mark's been playing almost forty years. He played lead trombone up until college and then switched to bass bone in the University of Illinois Symphonic Band Program. He played in the New Watusi Jazz Unit, an avant garde big band and dance troupe in Urbana. Mark's taken his trombone with him during his travels around the world, playing in a Hindu wedding band in Nepal and with a local band in Sierra Leone. He played with a concert band in Guangzhou, China. He's been with the Fugitive Brass Quintet, a Washington, DC area group, for almost ten years. Mark is a Foreign Service Officer. He is fluent in Nepali, Mandarin and Melanesian Pijin. He has lived or worked in Bosnia, Bulgaria, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Kingdom of Tonga, Vanuatu, and the People's Republic of China. |
| HAROLD LOWE, TENOR SAX AND CLARINET Harold's musical career began as a youngster in New York. In junior high school he played in the high school marching and concert bands. After moving to Maryland in 1956 he played lead tenor saxaphone in a group that, depending on the contract, ranged from a sextet to a full 18 piece swing band. Through 2 years at the University of Maryland he played in both the marching and symphonic bands at which point he packed up his instruments and focused on his education, family and career. Harold is the founder and owner of Lowe FS, a fully independent financial services company that provides planning and investment advisory services primarily to individuals. He has a blended family of 4 children, 5 grandchildren and resides in Sandy Spring, MD. Several years ago he unpacked his instruments, reinitiated taking private lessons and began looking for someplace to play. This has resulted in him now playing clarinet in the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, participating in a saxaphone quartet and of course is a member of STBB. |
| LEN MORRIS, TRUMPET MUSICAL DIRECTOR Len began his musical career in fifth grade, playing trumpet, and has since played in numerous ensembles throughout his education. Len graduated from Towson State University with a Bachelor of Science, having studied both geography and music. Len is a founding member of the Fugitive Brass Quintet, co-assistant conductor and trumpeter in the Rockville Concert Band (with whom he has toured Eastern Europe), and also plays in the Rockville Swing Band, the Rockville Dixie Rascals, the Rockville Brass Band. He also freelances on trumpet whenever possible, having gained experience in churches and pit orchestras around Maryland and Washington, D.C. Len devotes much of his non-trumpet time to the Columbia Concert Band as the percussion section leader and recently-elected Vice-President of the CCB Executive Board. Additionally, he conducts and arranges/composes for chamber groups. He currently directs Flute Cocktail, an eight-piece flute choir, and the Swing Time Big Band. Len presently works as a cartographer for the FAA in Silver Spring, Maryland. |
| DON HAYDEN, TENOR SAX SWING TIME BIG BAND ORIGINATOR, BUSINESS MANAGER Played clarinet in High School Band. Formed and played in several small dance bands during College. Took twenty five years off from playing my instrument to earn a living, marry, and raise four children with my wife of now 48 years! Re-entered the music field, by joining the Montgomery Village Community Band in 1994. In 1998, started Swing Time Big Band. Played our first commercial gig in 1999, and the rest is history.... |
| MIKE BURNETTE, TRUMPET |
| BOB GRAVES, ALTO SAX I'm a native Washingtonian. Started playing sax in 4th grade and played straight through college. Other saxophone playing experiences have been with Walt Whitman High School concert and Dance Band, Wake Forest University Marching Band (Go Deacs!) as lead alto player for Wake's award winning Jazz Band. I also spent an entire one month mini-semester traveling throughout North Carolina with the WFU Jazz Band. I am a founding member of Wake Forest's Jazz quartet "Catalyst". Played at many venues while at Wake and had the great pleasure of returning to my alma mater for a reunion concert in the fall of 2000. Hope to repeat at my 35th college reunion in the fall of '08. Put the sax away for about 25 years (except for an occasional Xmas party) to raise my family of three children in the DC suburbs. Now have three wonderful grandchildren and a very supportive wife of 35 years. When not playing music, I'm a partner in an insurance brokerage firm in Bethesda. I was introduced to STBB by my church buddy Harold Lowe. Couldn't be more thrilled to be part of a great sax section and a terrific band! |
| ROGER COLEMAN PIANIST AND GUITARIST He holds a BA in Music and a BFA in piano performance from SUNY Buffalo and a Master's degree in Music from the University of Maryland. Roger is an Associate Professor of Music at Montgomery College on the Takoma Park campus. He performs classical music with the Washington Area Piano Society, and plays with several area Rock bands. Roger Coleman is a pianist and guitarist who plays many different styles of music. |
| BRUCE MORRIS, TRUMPET |
| FORMER SWING TIME BIG BAND MUSICIANS |
| GERRY GEISBERT, ALTO SAX Gerry taught himself to play sax at the age of 10. He played in the marching, concert and jazz bands through high school. He played with the Army 5th Infantry Division Band from 1982 to 1983. Besides playing with Swing Time Big Band, he is currently Director of the Browinigsville Cornet Band and plays with Harmony, Yellow Springs and Rhorersville Community Bands as well as a Saxophone and Clarinet Chamber Quartet. |
| CARL MEYER, VOCALIST |
| MARK PEDERSEN ALTO/ TENOR SAX AND CLARINET |
Mark has been playing in a number of bands
since graduating from St Olaf College
including; The Rockville Concert Band, The
Rockville Swing Band, The Southern
Maryland Concert Band, the Montgomery
College Wind Ensemble, the Dixie Rascals,
the Maryland Defense Force Band, and the
Swing Time Big Band. Mark has also played
with a number of pit orchestras for
community theaters and dinner theaters.
Mark has led bands including a Dixieland
band while in high school and more recently
the Rockville Swing Band for the yearly
ensembles concert.
Mark studied clarinet and saxophone with
Robert Rose of the Marine Band, The
Presidents’s Own; Derold “Bueffo” Simmons
of the US Army Field Band, The Kings of the
Road; and Rubin Haugen, clarinet and
saxophone instructor at St Olaf College.
While at St Olaf College, Mark played clarinet
in the orchestra and tenor saxophone in the
jazz band.
since graduating from St Olaf College
including; The Rockville Concert Band, The
Rockville Swing Band, The Southern
Maryland Concert Band, the Montgomery
College Wind Ensemble, the Dixie Rascals,
the Maryland Defense Force Band, and the
Swing Time Big Band. Mark has also played
with a number of pit orchestras for
community theaters and dinner theaters.
Mark has led bands including a Dixieland
band while in high school and more recently
the Rockville Swing Band for the yearly
ensembles concert.
Mark studied clarinet and saxophone with
Robert Rose of the Marine Band, The
Presidents’s Own; Derold “Bueffo” Simmons
of the US Army Field Band, The Kings of the
Road; and Rubin Haugen, clarinet and
saxophone instructor at St Olaf College.
While at St Olaf College, Mark played clarinet
in the orchestra and tenor saxophone in the
jazz band.
| Marshall is a substitute in our trumpet section Following earning his BA degree from Emporia State University, He studied with some of the most prestigious trumpet coaches in the country, including Lou Maggio and James Stamp in Hollywood and Armando Ghitalla of the Boston Symphony. He was soloist with his high school band, at the University of Kansas summer band camp and in his college band. Following his time in the army, he spent several years playing lead trumpet in the big bands of Jimmy Dorsey, Les Elgart, and was a featured soloist with Perez Prado (playing "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" during the time it was #1 in the country). His non-music career was as CEO of several nonprofit organizations in Michigan and Calif., including six years before retirement in 2006 as president of the Los Angeles Mission for the Homeless. |
| MARSHALL McNOTT TRUMPET PLAYER |
