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With extensive experience as a performer, conductor, and music educator, Clark Chaffee brings a unique blend of perspectives to the band. He is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and has earned music degrees from University of Michigan and Northern Illinois University. NIU named him the 2014 Distinguished Alum from the the College of Visual and Performing Arts. He, his ensembles, and the Stevenson High School music PLC team have been recognized by numerous organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, the US Department of Education, the Kennedy Center, the Grammy Foundation, and the Conductors Guild.\u00a0 His professional performing experience includes being a member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus; timpanist for the Chicago Civic Orchestra, Elgin Symphony, Rockford Symphony, and others; drummer for the University of Michigan Big Band; drummer\/vocalist for jazz bands and his own jazz quartet. Since moving to the Phoenix area in 2013, Mr. Chaffee has been an active teacher, performer, and clinician. In addition to his role as conductor of the West Valley Wind Ensemble, he conducts the Surprise Pops Band, and he is Principal Viola in the Sun City Chamber Orchestra. He performs regularly (drummer\/vocalist) in several West Valley jazz ensembles including the Sun City Stomperz (classic Dixieland).<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nErnie Landes – Trombone Leader<\/h3>\nErnie took up the trombone in high school and began jamming with neighborhood musicians. While attending Stanford University, he heard the bands of Bob Scobey and Turk Murphy, and spent many Friday afternoons playing for free beer in college hangouts. \u00a0He helped form a band named \u201cSouth Bay Seven\u201d which was popular in the San Jose area in the sixties.In 1973 he was recruited by Frank Goulette to join the \u201cMonterey Bay Classic Jass Band\u201d of Santa Cruz, CA. \u00a0With this band he attended most of the West Coast jazz festivals and enjoyed an eight-year run of Sunday afternoon gigs at the Dream Inn in Santa Cruz.Retiring to Washington State in 1995, Ernie joined the \u201cDukes of Dabob\u201d which played for twelve years at the Valley Tavern near Dabob Bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nDan Reed – Trumpet<\/h3>\nAfter majoring in music at Indiana University, Dan has devoted his entire career to his trumpet. He has performed as a band member, band leader and featured soloist in a wide variety of situations. At one point, he worked on cruise ships, traveling around the world for 20 years as a performer and music director for Princess Cruises. He continues to study and teach trumpet, ever seeking to improve his own skills. Dan’s mantra is, \u201cYou are never too good or too old to learn something new.\u201d Dan is excited to be with the Sun City Stomperz where he is expanding his knowledge of Traditional Jazz. In addition to his fine talent on trumpet and flugelhorn, Dan’s enthusiasm and high energy draws fans wherever he goes.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nCheryl Thurston – Piano<\/h3>\nCheryl Thurston<\/p>\nCheryl was born in Ontario, Canada and grew up listening to her Dad play Dixieland Jazz cornet around Cleveland, Ohio.\u00a0 Soon, she was hooked on Traditional Jazz and played her first Jazz Fest in Canton, Ohio at age 14 and later played in several Dixie bands in the Cleveland area while working as a cad\/cam engineer and was one of Cleveland\u2019s most interesting people in Cleveland Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\nShe played trumpet in High School bands, piano in stage band and toured Europe with the American Youth Symphony.<\/p>\nAfter moving to Phoenix she was influenced by a great cornetist, Gary Church, to play solo stride piano at LJ\u2019s Pizza\u00a0 and with Joe Hopkins 52nd<\/sup> St. Jazz Band.<\/p>\nCheryl has her own 7-piece Jazz Festival band called Cheryl\u2019s Vintage Jazz Band made up of top-notch musicians from NYC to California!<\/p>\nShe has played many Jazz Cruises, Natchez Riverboat, Festivals, Events and Clubs.\u00a0 She yearly plays in New Orleans at various Jazz Clubs including with the Dukes of Dixieland in New Orleans, and Preservation Hall.<\/p>\nCurrently, Cheryl plays at several Country Clubs, etc, and plays a big part in the Arizona Classic Jazz Society and is Director\/Coordinator for Jazz assemblie in schools. She spends 3 summer months in Honolulu and casually plays music with fellow musicians.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nBarry Clapper – Clarinet\/Soprano Sax.<\/h3>\nBarry started playing sax in high school but interrupted his musical life for military service. He picked it up again in college, playing in several dance bands. In 1969 Barry got involved in barbershop quartet singing. He spent many years singing in competitions all over the Midwest and internationally. In 1983, he was asked to become a Certified International Judge and spent 24 years judging competitions all over the world. Around 2002 Barry was invited to play clarinet and got hooked on our kind of music. He has played with some very good bands including the \u201cBlue Ox Jazz Babies\u201d, the \u201cMouldy Figs\u201d and the \u201cTurkey River All Stars\u201d in and around Minnesota. Barry enjoys playing clarinet, flute, soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxes . His outstanding vocal capabilities provide an extra kick to the music of the Stomperz.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nChuck Stewart – Tuba<\/h3>\nChuck has been a professional Traditional Jazz (Dixieland) tuba player since 1960 and has played at over 150 major jazz festivals, 18 jazz cruises, and several tours throughout the USA, Canada and South America. He appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Jess Cain Show and the Al Capp Show and in October of 2011 he appeared at Carnegie Hall with “Your Father’s Mustache” Band. He can be heard performing on over 18 recordings including Tex Wyndham’s Rent Party Revellers, Ray Smith’s Paramount Jazz Band, Billy Butterfield, Johnny Mince, Banu Gibson; the Arizona Classic Jazz Band; Banjoist Mike Hashem; and Dick Shooshan’s Golden Eagle Jazz Band. He formed his own Crackerjack Jazz Band in 1991 and also took over leadership of the Paramount Jazz Band in 1995. He has been a member of the Arizona Winds Concert Band since 2001 and plays with several polka bands. He played at jazz festivals and on jazz cruises with Bob Schulz Frisco Jazz Band, the Buck Creek Jazz Band, Scott Anthony’s Golden Gate Rhythm Machine, the Golden Eagle Jazz Band, Vince Saunder’s South Frisco Jazz Band, Burt Barr’s Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band, the Happy Feet Jazz Orchestra, the Monte Carlo Jazz Ensemble, the Arizona Classic Jazz Band, 52nd St. Jazz Band, Cheryl’s Mardi Gras Jazz Band and the Desert City Six.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nMatt Mooney – Banjo<\/h3>\nMatt Mooney – orphaned when he was 2 years old, a band of gypsies stole him from the orphanage, dyed his hair red and hid him in a bordello in the lower French Quarter of New Orleans.\u00a0 Everyday he heard the lively music play on a distant Banjo.\u00a0 With nothing else to do he learned all the songs by ear.\u00a0 Last year as Ernie was perusing the lower quarter he heard a banjo being played in the bowels of the bordello.\u00a0 He was so impress with Matt’s Skills he made an offer the gypsies could not refuse and whisked Matt to Sun City to be the Stomperz Banjo Man!<\/p>\nThis is what happens when nobody writes the Bio.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nSteve Means – Clarinet<\/h3>\nSteve began learning clarinet at age nine and added saxophone at 12, He led rock and roll groups in high school and his first two years in college. In hiatus from college and later, after continuing college, he worked with a variety of musical groups , whereby he gained and developed experience and repertoire in popular standards of the 1900’s, including Big Band and Dixieland Jazz, From the latter 1960’s to the mid 1970’s, he worked generally with three- to eight-piece groups; most notably with the Paul Moorhead Orchestra, which played various ballrooms in a several-hundred-mile radius of Omaha, Nebraska. During his first residency in Phoenix, Arizona, his musical activities involved a variety of work including with groups in support of Jo Ann Castle, Pat Boone, Glen Campbell, Henny Youngman and Andrea McArdle; and multiple radio shows with Big Tiny Little. While residing in Flagstaff, Arizona for six years followed by three years in Las Vegas, Nevada, he continued to play music periodically. Upon his return to Phoenix in latter 1994, he renewed some prior musical contacts, formed new ones and continued to practice his avocation (and “first love”) of music. Local Dixieland Jazz groups he has worked with over the years include the Desert City Six, Doctor Sasparilla’s Red Hot Jazz Band and the Sun City Stomperz. There are many musicians and music fans in Arizona, and elsewhere, who know and appreciate his instrumental and vocal talents. He unconsciously tends to move when he plays, which once prompted Jane Russell to refer to Steve as “the Elvis Presley of clarinet.”<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nGallery<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2012\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t
Ernie took up the trombone in high school and began jamming with neighborhood musicians. While attending Stanford University, he heard the bands of Bob Scobey and Turk Murphy, and spent many Friday afternoons playing for free beer in college hangouts. \u00a0He helped form a band named \u201cSouth Bay Seven\u201d which was popular in the San Jose area in the sixties.In 1973 he was recruited by Frank Goulette to join the \u201cMonterey Bay Classic Jass Band\u201d of Santa Cruz, CA. \u00a0With this band he attended most of the West Coast jazz festivals and enjoyed an eight-year run of Sunday afternoon gigs at the Dream Inn in Santa Cruz.Retiring to Washington State in 1995, Ernie joined the \u201cDukes of Dabob\u201d which played for twelve years at the Valley Tavern near Dabob Bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nDan Reed – Trumpet<\/h3>\nAfter majoring in music at Indiana University, Dan has devoted his entire career to his trumpet. He has performed as a band member, band leader and featured soloist in a wide variety of situations. At one point, he worked on cruise ships, traveling around the world for 20 years as a performer and music director for Princess Cruises. He continues to study and teach trumpet, ever seeking to improve his own skills. Dan’s mantra is, \u201cYou are never too good or too old to learn something new.\u201d Dan is excited to be with the Sun City Stomperz where he is expanding his knowledge of Traditional Jazz. In addition to his fine talent on trumpet and flugelhorn, Dan’s enthusiasm and high energy draws fans wherever he goes.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nCheryl Thurston – Piano<\/h3>\nCheryl Thurston<\/p>\nCheryl was born in Ontario, Canada and grew up listening to her Dad play Dixieland Jazz cornet around Cleveland, Ohio.\u00a0 Soon, she was hooked on Traditional Jazz and played her first Jazz Fest in Canton, Ohio at age 14 and later played in several Dixie bands in the Cleveland area while working as a cad\/cam engineer and was one of Cleveland\u2019s most interesting people in Cleveland Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\nShe played trumpet in High School bands, piano in stage band and toured Europe with the American Youth Symphony.<\/p>\nAfter moving to Phoenix she was influenced by a great cornetist, Gary Church, to play solo stride piano at LJ\u2019s Pizza\u00a0 and with Joe Hopkins 52nd<\/sup> St. Jazz Band.<\/p>\nCheryl has her own 7-piece Jazz Festival band called Cheryl\u2019s Vintage Jazz Band made up of top-notch musicians from NYC to California!<\/p>\nShe has played many Jazz Cruises, Natchez Riverboat, Festivals, Events and Clubs.\u00a0 She yearly plays in New Orleans at various Jazz Clubs including with the Dukes of Dixieland in New Orleans, and Preservation Hall.<\/p>\nCurrently, Cheryl plays at several Country Clubs, etc, and plays a big part in the Arizona Classic Jazz Society and is Director\/Coordinator for Jazz assemblie in schools. She spends 3 summer months in Honolulu and casually plays music with fellow musicians.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nBarry Clapper – Clarinet\/Soprano Sax.<\/h3>\nBarry started playing sax in high school but interrupted his musical life for military service. He picked it up again in college, playing in several dance bands. In 1969 Barry got involved in barbershop quartet singing. He spent many years singing in competitions all over the Midwest and internationally. In 1983, he was asked to become a Certified International Judge and spent 24 years judging competitions all over the world. Around 2002 Barry was invited to play clarinet and got hooked on our kind of music. He has played with some very good bands including the \u201cBlue Ox Jazz Babies\u201d, the \u201cMouldy Figs\u201d and the \u201cTurkey River All Stars\u201d in and around Minnesota. Barry enjoys playing clarinet, flute, soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxes . His outstanding vocal capabilities provide an extra kick to the music of the Stomperz.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nChuck Stewart – Tuba<\/h3>\nChuck has been a professional Traditional Jazz (Dixieland) tuba player since 1960 and has played at over 150 major jazz festivals, 18 jazz cruises, and several tours throughout the USA, Canada and South America. He appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Jess Cain Show and the Al Capp Show and in October of 2011 he appeared at Carnegie Hall with “Your Father’s Mustache” Band. He can be heard performing on over 18 recordings including Tex Wyndham’s Rent Party Revellers, Ray Smith’s Paramount Jazz Band, Billy Butterfield, Johnny Mince, Banu Gibson; the Arizona Classic Jazz Band; Banjoist Mike Hashem; and Dick Shooshan’s Golden Eagle Jazz Band. He formed his own Crackerjack Jazz Band in 1991 and also took over leadership of the Paramount Jazz Band in 1995. He has been a member of the Arizona Winds Concert Band since 2001 and plays with several polka bands. He played at jazz festivals and on jazz cruises with Bob Schulz Frisco Jazz Band, the Buck Creek Jazz Band, Scott Anthony’s Golden Gate Rhythm Machine, the Golden Eagle Jazz Band, Vince Saunder’s South Frisco Jazz Band, Burt Barr’s Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band, the Happy Feet Jazz Orchestra, the Monte Carlo Jazz Ensemble, the Arizona Classic Jazz Band, 52nd St. Jazz Band, Cheryl’s Mardi Gras Jazz Band and the Desert City Six.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nMatt Mooney – Banjo<\/h3>\nMatt Mooney – orphaned when he was 2 years old, a band of gypsies stole him from the orphanage, dyed his hair red and hid him in a bordello in the lower French Quarter of New Orleans.\u00a0 Everyday he heard the lively music play on a distant Banjo.\u00a0 With nothing else to do he learned all the songs by ear.\u00a0 Last year as Ernie was perusing the lower quarter he heard a banjo being played in the bowels of the bordello.\u00a0 He was so impress with Matt’s Skills he made an offer the gypsies could not refuse and whisked Matt to Sun City to be the Stomperz Banjo Man!<\/p>\nThis is what happens when nobody writes the Bio.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nSteve Means – Clarinet<\/h3>\nSteve began learning clarinet at age nine and added saxophone at 12, He led rock and roll groups in high school and his first two years in college. In hiatus from college and later, after continuing college, he worked with a variety of musical groups , whereby he gained and developed experience and repertoire in popular standards of the 1900’s, including Big Band and Dixieland Jazz, From the latter 1960’s to the mid 1970’s, he worked generally with three- to eight-piece groups; most notably with the Paul Moorhead Orchestra, which played various ballrooms in a several-hundred-mile radius of Omaha, Nebraska. During his first residency in Phoenix, Arizona, his musical activities involved a variety of work including with groups in support of Jo Ann Castle, Pat Boone, Glen Campbell, Henny Youngman and Andrea McArdle; and multiple radio shows with Big Tiny Little. While residing in Flagstaff, Arizona for six years followed by three years in Las Vegas, Nevada, he continued to play music periodically. Upon his return to Phoenix in latter 1994, he renewed some prior musical contacts, formed new ones and continued to practice his avocation (and “first love”) of music. Local Dixieland Jazz groups he has worked with over the years include the Desert City Six, Doctor Sasparilla’s Red Hot Jazz Band and the Sun City Stomperz. There are many musicians and music fans in Arizona, and elsewhere, who know and appreciate his instrumental and vocal talents. He unconsciously tends to move when he plays, which once prompted Jane Russell to refer to Steve as “the Elvis Presley of clarinet.”<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nGallery<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2012\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t
After majoring in music at Indiana University, Dan has devoted his entire career to his trumpet. He has performed as a band member, band leader and featured soloist in a wide variety of situations. At one point, he worked on cruise ships, traveling around the world for 20 years as a performer and music director for Princess Cruises. He continues to study and teach trumpet, ever seeking to improve his own skills. Dan’s mantra is, \u201cYou are never too good or too old to learn something new.\u201d Dan is excited to be with the Sun City Stomperz where he is expanding his knowledge of Traditional Jazz. In addition to his fine talent on trumpet and flugelhorn, Dan’s enthusiasm and high energy draws fans wherever he goes.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nCheryl Thurston – Piano<\/h3>\nCheryl Thurston<\/p>\nCheryl was born in Ontario, Canada and grew up listening to her Dad play Dixieland Jazz cornet around Cleveland, Ohio.\u00a0 Soon, she was hooked on Traditional Jazz and played her first Jazz Fest in Canton, Ohio at age 14 and later played in several Dixie bands in the Cleveland area while working as a cad\/cam engineer and was one of Cleveland\u2019s most interesting people in Cleveland Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\nShe played trumpet in High School bands, piano in stage band and toured Europe with the American Youth Symphony.<\/p>\nAfter moving to Phoenix she was influenced by a great cornetist, Gary Church, to play solo stride piano at LJ\u2019s Pizza\u00a0 and with Joe Hopkins 52nd<\/sup> St. Jazz Band.<\/p>\nCheryl has her own 7-piece Jazz Festival band called Cheryl\u2019s Vintage Jazz Band made up of top-notch musicians from NYC to California!<\/p>\nShe has played many Jazz Cruises, Natchez Riverboat, Festivals, Events and Clubs.\u00a0 She yearly plays in New Orleans at various Jazz Clubs including with the Dukes of Dixieland in New Orleans, and Preservation Hall.<\/p>\nCurrently, Cheryl plays at several Country Clubs, etc, and plays a big part in the Arizona Classic Jazz Society and is Director\/Coordinator for Jazz assemblie in schools. She spends 3 summer months in Honolulu and casually plays music with fellow musicians.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nBarry Clapper – Clarinet\/Soprano Sax.<\/h3>\nBarry started playing sax in high school but interrupted his musical life for military service. He picked it up again in college, playing in several dance bands. In 1969 Barry got involved in barbershop quartet singing. He spent many years singing in competitions all over the Midwest and internationally. In 1983, he was asked to become a Certified International Judge and spent 24 years judging competitions all over the world. Around 2002 Barry was invited to play clarinet and got hooked on our kind of music. He has played with some very good bands including the \u201cBlue Ox Jazz Babies\u201d, the \u201cMouldy Figs\u201d and the \u201cTurkey River All Stars\u201d in and around Minnesota. Barry enjoys playing clarinet, flute, soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxes . His outstanding vocal capabilities provide an extra kick to the music of the Stomperz.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nChuck Stewart – Tuba<\/h3>\nChuck has been a professional Traditional Jazz (Dixieland) tuba player since 1960 and has played at over 150 major jazz festivals, 18 jazz cruises, and several tours throughout the USA, Canada and South America. He appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Jess Cain Show and the Al Capp Show and in October of 2011 he appeared at Carnegie Hall with “Your Father’s Mustache” Band. He can be heard performing on over 18 recordings including Tex Wyndham’s Rent Party Revellers, Ray Smith’s Paramount Jazz Band, Billy Butterfield, Johnny Mince, Banu Gibson; the Arizona Classic Jazz Band; Banjoist Mike Hashem; and Dick Shooshan’s Golden Eagle Jazz Band. He formed his own Crackerjack Jazz Band in 1991 and also took over leadership of the Paramount Jazz Band in 1995. He has been a member of the Arizona Winds Concert Band since 2001 and plays with several polka bands. He played at jazz festivals and on jazz cruises with Bob Schulz Frisco Jazz Band, the Buck Creek Jazz Band, Scott Anthony’s Golden Gate Rhythm Machine, the Golden Eagle Jazz Band, Vince Saunder’s South Frisco Jazz Band, Burt Barr’s Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band, the Happy Feet Jazz Orchestra, the Monte Carlo Jazz Ensemble, the Arizona Classic Jazz Band, 52nd St. Jazz Band, Cheryl’s Mardi Gras Jazz Band and the Desert City Six.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nMatt Mooney – Banjo<\/h3>\nMatt Mooney – orphaned when he was 2 years old, a band of gypsies stole him from the orphanage, dyed his hair red and hid him in a bordello in the lower French Quarter of New Orleans.\u00a0 Everyday he heard the lively music play on a distant Banjo.\u00a0 With nothing else to do he learned all the songs by ear.\u00a0 Last year as Ernie was perusing the lower quarter he heard a banjo being played in the bowels of the bordello.\u00a0 He was so impress with Matt’s Skills he made an offer the gypsies could not refuse and whisked Matt to Sun City to be the Stomperz Banjo Man!<\/p>\nThis is what happens when nobody writes the Bio.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nSteve Means – Clarinet<\/h3>\nSteve began learning clarinet at age nine and added saxophone at 12, He led rock and roll groups in high school and his first two years in college. In hiatus from college and later, after continuing college, he worked with a variety of musical groups , whereby he gained and developed experience and repertoire in popular standards of the 1900’s, including Big Band and Dixieland Jazz, From the latter 1960’s to the mid 1970’s, he worked generally with three- to eight-piece groups; most notably with the Paul Moorhead Orchestra, which played various ballrooms in a several-hundred-mile radius of Omaha, Nebraska. During his first residency in Phoenix, Arizona, his musical activities involved a variety of work including with groups in support of Jo Ann Castle, Pat Boone, Glen Campbell, Henny Youngman and Andrea McArdle; and multiple radio shows with Big Tiny Little. While residing in Flagstaff, Arizona for six years followed by three years in Las Vegas, Nevada, he continued to play music periodically. Upon his return to Phoenix in latter 1994, he renewed some prior musical contacts, formed new ones and continued to practice his avocation (and “first love”) of music. Local Dixieland Jazz groups he has worked with over the years include the Desert City Six, Doctor Sasparilla’s Red Hot Jazz Band and the Sun City Stomperz. There are many musicians and music fans in Arizona, and elsewhere, who know and appreciate his instrumental and vocal talents. He unconsciously tends to move when he plays, which once prompted Jane Russell to refer to Steve as “the Elvis Presley of clarinet.”<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nGallery<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2012\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t
Cheryl Thurston<\/p>\n
Cheryl was born in Ontario, Canada and grew up listening to her Dad play Dixieland Jazz cornet around Cleveland, Ohio.\u00a0 Soon, she was hooked on Traditional Jazz and played her first Jazz Fest in Canton, Ohio at age 14 and later played in several Dixie bands in the Cleveland area while working as a cad\/cam engineer and was one of Cleveland\u2019s most interesting people in Cleveland Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\nShe played trumpet in High School bands, piano in stage band and toured Europe with the American Youth Symphony.<\/p>\nAfter moving to Phoenix she was influenced by a great cornetist, Gary Church, to play solo stride piano at LJ\u2019s Pizza\u00a0 and with Joe Hopkins 52nd<\/sup> St. Jazz Band.<\/p>\nCheryl has her own 7-piece Jazz Festival band called Cheryl\u2019s Vintage Jazz Band made up of top-notch musicians from NYC to California!<\/p>\nShe has played many Jazz Cruises, Natchez Riverboat, Festivals, Events and Clubs.\u00a0 She yearly plays in New Orleans at various Jazz Clubs including with the Dukes of Dixieland in New Orleans, and Preservation Hall.<\/p>\nCurrently, Cheryl plays at several Country Clubs, etc, and plays a big part in the Arizona Classic Jazz Society and is Director\/Coordinator for Jazz assemblie in schools. She spends 3 summer months in Honolulu and casually plays music with fellow musicians.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nBarry Clapper – Clarinet\/Soprano Sax.<\/h3>\nBarry started playing sax in high school but interrupted his musical life for military service. He picked it up again in college, playing in several dance bands. In 1969 Barry got involved in barbershop quartet singing. He spent many years singing in competitions all over the Midwest and internationally. In 1983, he was asked to become a Certified International Judge and spent 24 years judging competitions all over the world. Around 2002 Barry was invited to play clarinet and got hooked on our kind of music. He has played with some very good bands including the \u201cBlue Ox Jazz Babies\u201d, the \u201cMouldy Figs\u201d and the \u201cTurkey River All Stars\u201d in and around Minnesota. Barry enjoys playing clarinet, flute, soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxes . His outstanding vocal capabilities provide an extra kick to the music of the Stomperz.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nChuck Stewart – Tuba<\/h3>\nChuck has been a professional Traditional Jazz (Dixieland) tuba player since 1960 and has played at over 150 major jazz festivals, 18 jazz cruises, and several tours throughout the USA, Canada and South America. He appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Jess Cain Show and the Al Capp Show and in October of 2011 he appeared at Carnegie Hall with “Your Father’s Mustache” Band. He can be heard performing on over 18 recordings including Tex Wyndham’s Rent Party Revellers, Ray Smith’s Paramount Jazz Band, Billy Butterfield, Johnny Mince, Banu Gibson; the Arizona Classic Jazz Band; Banjoist Mike Hashem; and Dick Shooshan’s Golden Eagle Jazz Band. He formed his own Crackerjack Jazz Band in 1991 and also took over leadership of the Paramount Jazz Band in 1995. He has been a member of the Arizona Winds Concert Band since 2001 and plays with several polka bands. He played at jazz festivals and on jazz cruises with Bob Schulz Frisco Jazz Band, the Buck Creek Jazz Band, Scott Anthony’s Golden Gate Rhythm Machine, the Golden Eagle Jazz Band, Vince Saunder’s South Frisco Jazz Band, Burt Barr’s Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band, the Happy Feet Jazz Orchestra, the Monte Carlo Jazz Ensemble, the Arizona Classic Jazz Band, 52nd St. Jazz Band, Cheryl’s Mardi Gras Jazz Band and the Desert City Six.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nMatt Mooney – Banjo<\/h3>\nMatt Mooney – orphaned when he was 2 years old, a band of gypsies stole him from the orphanage, dyed his hair red and hid him in a bordello in the lower French Quarter of New Orleans.\u00a0 Everyday he heard the lively music play on a distant Banjo.\u00a0 With nothing else to do he learned all the songs by ear.\u00a0 Last year as Ernie was perusing the lower quarter he heard a banjo being played in the bowels of the bordello.\u00a0 He was so impress with Matt’s Skills he made an offer the gypsies could not refuse and whisked Matt to Sun City to be the Stomperz Banjo Man!<\/p>\nThis is what happens when nobody writes the Bio.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nSteve Means – Clarinet<\/h3>\nSteve began learning clarinet at age nine and added saxophone at 12, He led rock and roll groups in high school and his first two years in college. In hiatus from college and later, after continuing college, he worked with a variety of musical groups , whereby he gained and developed experience and repertoire in popular standards of the 1900’s, including Big Band and Dixieland Jazz, From the latter 1960’s to the mid 1970’s, he worked generally with three- to eight-piece groups; most notably with the Paul Moorhead Orchestra, which played various ballrooms in a several-hundred-mile radius of Omaha, Nebraska. During his first residency in Phoenix, Arizona, his musical activities involved a variety of work including with groups in support of Jo Ann Castle, Pat Boone, Glen Campbell, Henny Youngman and Andrea McArdle; and multiple radio shows with Big Tiny Little. While residing in Flagstaff, Arizona for six years followed by three years in Las Vegas, Nevada, he continued to play music periodically. Upon his return to Phoenix in latter 1994, he renewed some prior musical contacts, formed new ones and continued to practice his avocation (and “first love”) of music. Local Dixieland Jazz groups he has worked with over the years include the Desert City Six, Doctor Sasparilla’s Red Hot Jazz Band and the Sun City Stomperz. There are many musicians and music fans in Arizona, and elsewhere, who know and appreciate his instrumental and vocal talents. He unconsciously tends to move when he plays, which once prompted Jane Russell to refer to Steve as “the Elvis Presley of clarinet.”<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nGallery<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2012\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t
She played trumpet in High School bands, piano in stage band and toured Europe with the American Youth Symphony.<\/p>\n
After moving to Phoenix she was influenced by a great cornetist, Gary Church, to play solo stride piano at LJ\u2019s Pizza\u00a0 and with Joe Hopkins 52nd<\/sup> St. Jazz Band.<\/p>\nCheryl has her own 7-piece Jazz Festival band called Cheryl\u2019s Vintage Jazz Band made up of top-notch musicians from NYC to California!<\/p>\nShe has played many Jazz Cruises, Natchez Riverboat, Festivals, Events and Clubs.\u00a0 She yearly plays in New Orleans at various Jazz Clubs including with the Dukes of Dixieland in New Orleans, and Preservation Hall.<\/p>\nCurrently, Cheryl plays at several Country Clubs, etc, and plays a big part in the Arizona Classic Jazz Society and is Director\/Coordinator for Jazz assemblie in schools. She spends 3 summer months in Honolulu and casually plays music with fellow musicians.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nBarry Clapper – Clarinet\/Soprano Sax.<\/h3>\nBarry started playing sax in high school but interrupted his musical life for military service. He picked it up again in college, playing in several dance bands. In 1969 Barry got involved in barbershop quartet singing. He spent many years singing in competitions all over the Midwest and internationally. In 1983, he was asked to become a Certified International Judge and spent 24 years judging competitions all over the world. Around 2002 Barry was invited to play clarinet and got hooked on our kind of music. He has played with some very good bands including the \u201cBlue Ox Jazz Babies\u201d, the \u201cMouldy Figs\u201d and the \u201cTurkey River All Stars\u201d in and around Minnesota. Barry enjoys playing clarinet, flute, soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxes . His outstanding vocal capabilities provide an extra kick to the music of the Stomperz.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nChuck Stewart – Tuba<\/h3>\nChuck has been a professional Traditional Jazz (Dixieland) tuba player since 1960 and has played at over 150 major jazz festivals, 18 jazz cruises, and several tours throughout the USA, Canada and South America. He appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Jess Cain Show and the Al Capp Show and in October of 2011 he appeared at Carnegie Hall with “Your Father’s Mustache” Band. He can be heard performing on over 18 recordings including Tex Wyndham’s Rent Party Revellers, Ray Smith’s Paramount Jazz Band, Billy Butterfield, Johnny Mince, Banu Gibson; the Arizona Classic Jazz Band; Banjoist Mike Hashem; and Dick Shooshan’s Golden Eagle Jazz Band. He formed his own Crackerjack Jazz Band in 1991 and also took over leadership of the Paramount Jazz Band in 1995. He has been a member of the Arizona Winds Concert Band since 2001 and plays with several polka bands. He played at jazz festivals and on jazz cruises with Bob Schulz Frisco Jazz Band, the Buck Creek Jazz Band, Scott Anthony’s Golden Gate Rhythm Machine, the Golden Eagle Jazz Band, Vince Saunder’s South Frisco Jazz Band, Burt Barr’s Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band, the Happy Feet Jazz Orchestra, the Monte Carlo Jazz Ensemble, the Arizona Classic Jazz Band, 52nd St. Jazz Band, Cheryl’s Mardi Gras Jazz Band and the Desert City Six.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nMatt Mooney – Banjo<\/h3>\nMatt Mooney – orphaned when he was 2 years old, a band of gypsies stole him from the orphanage, dyed his hair red and hid him in a bordello in the lower French Quarter of New Orleans.\u00a0 Everyday he heard the lively music play on a distant Banjo.\u00a0 With nothing else to do he learned all the songs by ear.\u00a0 Last year as Ernie was perusing the lower quarter he heard a banjo being played in the bowels of the bordello.\u00a0 He was so impress with Matt’s Skills he made an offer the gypsies could not refuse and whisked Matt to Sun City to be the Stomperz Banjo Man!<\/p>\nThis is what happens when nobody writes the Bio.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nSteve Means – Clarinet<\/h3>\nSteve began learning clarinet at age nine and added saxophone at 12, He led rock and roll groups in high school and his first two years in college. In hiatus from college and later, after continuing college, he worked with a variety of musical groups , whereby he gained and developed experience and repertoire in popular standards of the 1900’s, including Big Band and Dixieland Jazz, From the latter 1960’s to the mid 1970’s, he worked generally with three- to eight-piece groups; most notably with the Paul Moorhead Orchestra, which played various ballrooms in a several-hundred-mile radius of Omaha, Nebraska. During his first residency in Phoenix, Arizona, his musical activities involved a variety of work including with groups in support of Jo Ann Castle, Pat Boone, Glen Campbell, Henny Youngman and Andrea McArdle; and multiple radio shows with Big Tiny Little. While residing in Flagstaff, Arizona for six years followed by three years in Las Vegas, Nevada, he continued to play music periodically. Upon his return to Phoenix in latter 1994, he renewed some prior musical contacts, formed new ones and continued to practice his avocation (and “first love”) of music. Local Dixieland Jazz groups he has worked with over the years include the Desert City Six, Doctor Sasparilla’s Red Hot Jazz Band and the Sun City Stomperz. There are many musicians and music fans in Arizona, and elsewhere, who know and appreciate his instrumental and vocal talents. He unconsciously tends to move when he plays, which once prompted Jane Russell to refer to Steve as “the Elvis Presley of clarinet.”<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nGallery<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2012\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t
Cheryl has her own 7-piece Jazz Festival band called Cheryl\u2019s Vintage Jazz Band made up of top-notch musicians from NYC to California!<\/p>\n
She has played many Jazz Cruises, Natchez Riverboat, Festivals, Events and Clubs.\u00a0 She yearly plays in New Orleans at various Jazz Clubs including with the Dukes of Dixieland in New Orleans, and Preservation Hall.<\/p>\n
Currently, Cheryl plays at several Country Clubs, etc, and plays a big part in the Arizona Classic Jazz Society and is Director\/Coordinator for Jazz assemblie in schools. She spends 3 summer months in Honolulu and casually plays music with fellow musicians.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nBarry Clapper – Clarinet\/Soprano Sax.<\/h3>\nBarry started playing sax in high school but interrupted his musical life for military service. He picked it up again in college, playing in several dance bands. In 1969 Barry got involved in barbershop quartet singing. He spent many years singing in competitions all over the Midwest and internationally. In 1983, he was asked to become a Certified International Judge and spent 24 years judging competitions all over the world. Around 2002 Barry was invited to play clarinet and got hooked on our kind of music. He has played with some very good bands including the \u201cBlue Ox Jazz Babies\u201d, the \u201cMouldy Figs\u201d and the \u201cTurkey River All Stars\u201d in and around Minnesota. Barry enjoys playing clarinet, flute, soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxes . His outstanding vocal capabilities provide an extra kick to the music of the Stomperz.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nChuck Stewart – Tuba<\/h3>\nChuck has been a professional Traditional Jazz (Dixieland) tuba player since 1960 and has played at over 150 major jazz festivals, 18 jazz cruises, and several tours throughout the USA, Canada and South America. He appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Jess Cain Show and the Al Capp Show and in October of 2011 he appeared at Carnegie Hall with “Your Father’s Mustache” Band. He can be heard performing on over 18 recordings including Tex Wyndham’s Rent Party Revellers, Ray Smith’s Paramount Jazz Band, Billy Butterfield, Johnny Mince, Banu Gibson; the Arizona Classic Jazz Band; Banjoist Mike Hashem; and Dick Shooshan’s Golden Eagle Jazz Band. He formed his own Crackerjack Jazz Band in 1991 and also took over leadership of the Paramount Jazz Band in 1995. He has been a member of the Arizona Winds Concert Band since 2001 and plays with several polka bands. He played at jazz festivals and on jazz cruises with Bob Schulz Frisco Jazz Band, the Buck Creek Jazz Band, Scott Anthony’s Golden Gate Rhythm Machine, the Golden Eagle Jazz Band, Vince Saunder’s South Frisco Jazz Band, Burt Barr’s Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band, the Happy Feet Jazz Orchestra, the Monte Carlo Jazz Ensemble, the Arizona Classic Jazz Band, 52nd St. Jazz Band, Cheryl’s Mardi Gras Jazz Band and the Desert City Six.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nMatt Mooney – Banjo<\/h3>\nMatt Mooney – orphaned when he was 2 years old, a band of gypsies stole him from the orphanage, dyed his hair red and hid him in a bordello in the lower French Quarter of New Orleans.\u00a0 Everyday he heard the lively music play on a distant Banjo.\u00a0 With nothing else to do he learned all the songs by ear.\u00a0 Last year as Ernie was perusing the lower quarter he heard a banjo being played in the bowels of the bordello.\u00a0 He was so impress with Matt’s Skills he made an offer the gypsies could not refuse and whisked Matt to Sun City to be the Stomperz Banjo Man!<\/p>\nThis is what happens when nobody writes the Bio.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nSteve Means – Clarinet<\/h3>\nSteve began learning clarinet at age nine and added saxophone at 12, He led rock and roll groups in high school and his first two years in college. In hiatus from college and later, after continuing college, he worked with a variety of musical groups , whereby he gained and developed experience and repertoire in popular standards of the 1900’s, including Big Band and Dixieland Jazz, From the latter 1960’s to the mid 1970’s, he worked generally with three- to eight-piece groups; most notably with the Paul Moorhead Orchestra, which played various ballrooms in a several-hundred-mile radius of Omaha, Nebraska. During his first residency in Phoenix, Arizona, his musical activities involved a variety of work including with groups in support of Jo Ann Castle, Pat Boone, Glen Campbell, Henny Youngman and Andrea McArdle; and multiple radio shows with Big Tiny Little. While residing in Flagstaff, Arizona for six years followed by three years in Las Vegas, Nevada, he continued to play music periodically. Upon his return to Phoenix in latter 1994, he renewed some prior musical contacts, formed new ones and continued to practice his avocation (and “first love”) of music. Local Dixieland Jazz groups he has worked with over the years include the Desert City Six, Doctor Sasparilla’s Red Hot Jazz Band and the Sun City Stomperz. There are many musicians and music fans in Arizona, and elsewhere, who know and appreciate his instrumental and vocal talents. He unconsciously tends to move when he plays, which once prompted Jane Russell to refer to Steve as “the Elvis Presley of clarinet.”<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nGallery<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2012\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t
Barry started playing sax in high school but interrupted his musical life for military service. He picked it up again in college, playing in several dance bands. In 1969 Barry got involved in barbershop quartet singing. He spent many years singing in competitions all over the Midwest and internationally. In 1983, he was asked to become a Certified International Judge and spent 24 years judging competitions all over the world. Around 2002 Barry was invited to play clarinet and got hooked on our kind of music. He has played with some very good bands including the \u201cBlue Ox Jazz Babies\u201d, the \u201cMouldy Figs\u201d and the \u201cTurkey River All Stars\u201d in and around Minnesota. Barry enjoys playing clarinet, flute, soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxes . His outstanding vocal capabilities provide an extra kick to the music of the Stomperz.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nChuck Stewart – Tuba<\/h3>\nChuck has been a professional Traditional Jazz (Dixieland) tuba player since 1960 and has played at over 150 major jazz festivals, 18 jazz cruises, and several tours throughout the USA, Canada and South America. He appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Jess Cain Show and the Al Capp Show and in October of 2011 he appeared at Carnegie Hall with “Your Father’s Mustache” Band. He can be heard performing on over 18 recordings including Tex Wyndham’s Rent Party Revellers, Ray Smith’s Paramount Jazz Band, Billy Butterfield, Johnny Mince, Banu Gibson; the Arizona Classic Jazz Band; Banjoist Mike Hashem; and Dick Shooshan’s Golden Eagle Jazz Band. He formed his own Crackerjack Jazz Band in 1991 and also took over leadership of the Paramount Jazz Band in 1995. He has been a member of the Arizona Winds Concert Band since 2001 and plays with several polka bands. He played at jazz festivals and on jazz cruises with Bob Schulz Frisco Jazz Band, the Buck Creek Jazz Band, Scott Anthony’s Golden Gate Rhythm Machine, the Golden Eagle Jazz Band, Vince Saunder’s South Frisco Jazz Band, Burt Barr’s Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band, the Happy Feet Jazz Orchestra, the Monte Carlo Jazz Ensemble, the Arizona Classic Jazz Band, 52nd St. Jazz Band, Cheryl’s Mardi Gras Jazz Band and the Desert City Six.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nMatt Mooney – Banjo<\/h3>\nMatt Mooney – orphaned when he was 2 years old, a band of gypsies stole him from the orphanage, dyed his hair red and hid him in a bordello in the lower French Quarter of New Orleans.\u00a0 Everyday he heard the lively music play on a distant Banjo.\u00a0 With nothing else to do he learned all the songs by ear.\u00a0 Last year as Ernie was perusing the lower quarter he heard a banjo being played in the bowels of the bordello.\u00a0 He was so impress with Matt’s Skills he made an offer the gypsies could not refuse and whisked Matt to Sun City to be the Stomperz Banjo Man!<\/p>\nThis is what happens when nobody writes the Bio.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nSteve Means – Clarinet<\/h3>\nSteve began learning clarinet at age nine and added saxophone at 12, He led rock and roll groups in high school and his first two years in college. In hiatus from college and later, after continuing college, he worked with a variety of musical groups , whereby he gained and developed experience and repertoire in popular standards of the 1900’s, including Big Band and Dixieland Jazz, From the latter 1960’s to the mid 1970’s, he worked generally with three- to eight-piece groups; most notably with the Paul Moorhead Orchestra, which played various ballrooms in a several-hundred-mile radius of Omaha, Nebraska. During his first residency in Phoenix, Arizona, his musical activities involved a variety of work including with groups in support of Jo Ann Castle, Pat Boone, Glen Campbell, Henny Youngman and Andrea McArdle; and multiple radio shows with Big Tiny Little. While residing in Flagstaff, Arizona for six years followed by three years in Las Vegas, Nevada, he continued to play music periodically. Upon his return to Phoenix in latter 1994, he renewed some prior musical contacts, formed new ones and continued to practice his avocation (and “first love”) of music. Local Dixieland Jazz groups he has worked with over the years include the Desert City Six, Doctor Sasparilla’s Red Hot Jazz Band and the Sun City Stomperz. There are many musicians and music fans in Arizona, and elsewhere, who know and appreciate his instrumental and vocal talents. He unconsciously tends to move when he plays, which once prompted Jane Russell to refer to Steve as “the Elvis Presley of clarinet.”<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nGallery<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2012\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t
Chuck has been a professional Traditional Jazz (Dixieland) tuba player since 1960 and has played at over 150 major jazz festivals, 18 jazz cruises, and several tours throughout the USA, Canada and South America. He appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Jess Cain Show and the Al Capp Show and in October of 2011 he appeared at Carnegie Hall with “Your Father’s Mustache” Band. He can be heard performing on over 18 recordings including Tex Wyndham’s Rent Party Revellers, Ray Smith’s Paramount Jazz Band, Billy Butterfield, Johnny Mince, Banu Gibson; the Arizona Classic Jazz Band; Banjoist Mike Hashem; and Dick Shooshan’s Golden Eagle Jazz Band. He formed his own Crackerjack Jazz Band in 1991 and also took over leadership of the Paramount Jazz Band in 1995. He has been a member of the Arizona Winds Concert Band since 2001 and plays with several polka bands. He played at jazz festivals and on jazz cruises with Bob Schulz Frisco Jazz Band, the Buck Creek Jazz Band, Scott Anthony’s Golden Gate Rhythm Machine, the Golden Eagle Jazz Band, Vince Saunder’s South Frisco Jazz Band, Burt Barr’s Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band, the Happy Feet Jazz Orchestra, the Monte Carlo Jazz Ensemble, the Arizona Classic Jazz Band, 52nd St. Jazz Band, Cheryl’s Mardi Gras Jazz Band and the Desert City Six.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nMatt Mooney – Banjo<\/h3>\nMatt Mooney – orphaned when he was 2 years old, a band of gypsies stole him from the orphanage, dyed his hair red and hid him in a bordello in the lower French Quarter of New Orleans.\u00a0 Everyday he heard the lively music play on a distant Banjo.\u00a0 With nothing else to do he learned all the songs by ear.\u00a0 Last year as Ernie was perusing the lower quarter he heard a banjo being played in the bowels of the bordello.\u00a0 He was so impress with Matt’s Skills he made an offer the gypsies could not refuse and whisked Matt to Sun City to be the Stomperz Banjo Man!<\/p>\nThis is what happens when nobody writes the Bio.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nSteve Means – Clarinet<\/h3>\nSteve began learning clarinet at age nine and added saxophone at 12, He led rock and roll groups in high school and his first two years in college. In hiatus from college and later, after continuing college, he worked with a variety of musical groups , whereby he gained and developed experience and repertoire in popular standards of the 1900’s, including Big Band and Dixieland Jazz, From the latter 1960’s to the mid 1970’s, he worked generally with three- to eight-piece groups; most notably with the Paul Moorhead Orchestra, which played various ballrooms in a several-hundred-mile radius of Omaha, Nebraska. During his first residency in Phoenix, Arizona, his musical activities involved a variety of work including with groups in support of Jo Ann Castle, Pat Boone, Glen Campbell, Henny Youngman and Andrea McArdle; and multiple radio shows with Big Tiny Little. While residing in Flagstaff, Arizona for six years followed by three years in Las Vegas, Nevada, he continued to play music periodically. Upon his return to Phoenix in latter 1994, he renewed some prior musical contacts, formed new ones and continued to practice his avocation (and “first love”) of music. Local Dixieland Jazz groups he has worked with over the years include the Desert City Six, Doctor Sasparilla’s Red Hot Jazz Band and the Sun City Stomperz. There are many musicians and music fans in Arizona, and elsewhere, who know and appreciate his instrumental and vocal talents. He unconsciously tends to move when he plays, which once prompted Jane Russell to refer to Steve as “the Elvis Presley of clarinet.”<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nGallery<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2012\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t
Matt Mooney – orphaned when he was 2 years old, a band of gypsies stole him from the orphanage, dyed his hair red and hid him in a bordello in the lower French Quarter of New Orleans.\u00a0 Everyday he heard the lively music play on a distant Banjo.\u00a0 With nothing else to do he learned all the songs by ear.\u00a0 Last year as Ernie was perusing the lower quarter he heard a banjo being played in the bowels of the bordello.\u00a0 He was so impress with Matt’s Skills he made an offer the gypsies could not refuse and whisked Matt to Sun City to be the Stomperz Banjo Man!<\/p>\n
This is what happens when nobody writes the Bio.<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nSteve Means – Clarinet<\/h3>\nSteve began learning clarinet at age nine and added saxophone at 12, He led rock and roll groups in high school and his first two years in college. In hiatus from college and later, after continuing college, he worked with a variety of musical groups , whereby he gained and developed experience and repertoire in popular standards of the 1900’s, including Big Band and Dixieland Jazz, From the latter 1960’s to the mid 1970’s, he worked generally with three- to eight-piece groups; most notably with the Paul Moorhead Orchestra, which played various ballrooms in a several-hundred-mile radius of Omaha, Nebraska. During his first residency in Phoenix, Arizona, his musical activities involved a variety of work including with groups in support of Jo Ann Castle, Pat Boone, Glen Campbell, Henny Youngman and Andrea McArdle; and multiple radio shows with Big Tiny Little. While residing in Flagstaff, Arizona for six years followed by three years in Las Vegas, Nevada, he continued to play music periodically. Upon his return to Phoenix in latter 1994, he renewed some prior musical contacts, formed new ones and continued to practice his avocation (and “first love”) of music. Local Dixieland Jazz groups he has worked with over the years include the Desert City Six, Doctor Sasparilla’s Red Hot Jazz Band and the Sun City Stomperz. There are many musicians and music fans in Arizona, and elsewhere, who know and appreciate his instrumental and vocal talents. He unconsciously tends to move when he plays, which once prompted Jane Russell to refer to Steve as “the Elvis Presley of clarinet.”<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nGallery<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2012\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t
Steve began learning clarinet at age nine and added saxophone at 12, He led rock and roll groups in high school and his first two years in college. In hiatus from college and later, after continuing college, he worked with a variety of musical groups , whereby he gained and developed experience and repertoire in popular standards of the 1900’s, including Big Band and Dixieland Jazz, From the latter 1960’s to the mid 1970’s, he worked generally with three- to eight-piece groups; most notably with the Paul Moorhead Orchestra, which played various ballrooms in a several-hundred-mile radius of Omaha, Nebraska. During his first residency in Phoenix, Arizona, his musical activities involved a variety of work including with groups in support of Jo Ann Castle, Pat Boone, Glen Campbell, Henny Youngman and Andrea McArdle; and multiple radio shows with Big Tiny Little. While residing in Flagstaff, Arizona for six years followed by three years in Las Vegas, Nevada, he continued to play music periodically. Upon his return to Phoenix in latter 1994, he renewed some prior musical contacts, formed new ones and continued to practice his avocation (and “first love”) of music. Local Dixieland Jazz groups he has worked with over the years include the Desert City Six, Doctor Sasparilla’s Red Hot Jazz Band and the Sun City Stomperz. There are many musicians and music fans in Arizona, and elsewhere, who know and appreciate his instrumental and vocal talents. He unconsciously tends to move when he plays, which once prompted Jane Russell to refer to Steve as “the Elvis Presley of clarinet.”<\/p>\n <\/figure>\nGallery<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2007\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2009\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2012\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t