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Jon Seiger (Trumpet, Piano,Vocals) studied with Jimmy Giuffre, John McNeill, and trumpet great Roy Eldridge, is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, and is one of very few performing deaf musicians. Jon has played with such notables as The Drifters, The Shirelles, Ella Fitzgerald, Doc Cheatham, Marty Napoleon, Joe Muranyi, Dick Katz, Chuck Folds, Maynard Ferguson, Billy Eckstine, Arvell Shaw, Panama Francis, Joe Williams, Bob Haggart, Oliver Jackson, Bobby Pratt, Johnny and Edgar Winter, Gap Mangione, Nancy Kelly, Jimmy Maxwell, Jimmy McPartland, Sammy Price, Dick Oakley, Ken Peplowski, Sol Yaged, Fred Raulston, Ed Polcer, Stephanie Nakasian, and many others. In 1988 he performed at Carnegie Hall with the Hi-Tops . Jon was the house bandleader at The King Cole Room at The St. Regis Hotel in New York City for 3 years. Although Jon is deaf, he swings with many bands, including the All-Stars , the Metropolitan Stompers, the Hi-Tops, and the Rhythm Aces, and has played with several surviving members of Louis Armstrong's band. Jon has performed in England, France, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Belgium, Lichtenstein, and Spain. Jon performs several times a year in Argentina, Jamaica, Canada, and many other places in the United States and around the world. 

     
Floyd Hughes (Trombone and Vocals) has his Masters Degree in Music Education from Ball State University in Indiana, and is also a graduate of SUNY College at Fredonia. Floyd played in the US Army Marching Band and the US Army Jazz Band while stationed at Fort Jackson . Floyd taught instrumental music in the West Irondequoit, NY, school system, and has played trombone regularly with Billy Spitz and the Dixieland Stompers , the Bourbon Street Jazz Band, and leads his own group, the Stompers and All That Jazz. Floyd has also played with the big bands of Duke Spinner, Chick Edmonds, and Bud DeTar . Floyd is also and excellent vocalist and tenor banjo player, and does many solo gigs in the Rochester area. 


George Pierce (Sax, Clarinet, and Vocals) has the distinction of being the oldest working Sheriff in New York State. In addition to playing with the All-Stars , George is the leader of the Bourbon Street Jazz Band, plays regularly with the Metropolitan Stompers, and the Rhythm Aces. He has played with the Army Air Force Band, and has played with the Penfield Rotary Big Band for over 35 years. George has led bands under his own name and has played with the great Claude Thornhill Band.




Bobby DiBaudo (Piano) is considered by many to be among the finest piano players performing today. He is one of the house bandleaders at the Lodge at Woodcliffe, Rochester, NY 's finest hotel. Bobby has played with many great jazz performers, including Ronnie Leigh, Nancy Kelly, Tom Monte, Debbie Chamberlain, and many others. Bobby can be heard on CD with Debbie Chamberlain, and recently put out his own CD. 

      



Lynn Eberhardt (Bass and Vocals) is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music , and has done graduate work at Eastman and at S.U.N.Y. Brockport. Lynn was the bass player in the U.S. Coast Guard Band for four years. He has played with many jazz notables including the Metropolitan Stompers, Nancy Kelly, Beale Street Bandwagon, the Crazy Firemen, and many others. Lynn 's swingin' style and solid four-on-the-floor beat keep the time solid always. 



 
Allan Ward (Drums) is the newest (and youngest) member of the band. Allan has performed with many bands including the Ted Perry Trio, the New Energy Big Band, the  Bob Barbuto Trio,  the Boulder Brass, the Boulder Philharmonic, the Longmont Symphony, and the United States Air Force "Shades of Blue" Big Band. Allan teaches at the Eastman School of Music and the Hochstein School of Music, and has taught for the Boulder Country Public School System and the Rocky Mountain Centre for the Musical Arts.



We are fortunate to have the following musicians perform with the band sometimes ... 



Jordan Klapman (Piano and Vocals) is an accomplished jazz pianist from Canada, equally at home performing in jazz festivals, clubs, theatres, and concert halls. he has appeared on CBC radio and television, and on JazzFM as both a performer and class jazz radio show co-host with the late Jeff Healey.  Over the past 30 years, Jordan has worked with many other notable jazz performers including Oliver Jones, Jon Seiger, Adi Braun, Julie Michels, Tony Quarrington, Sharon Smith, John Roby, and Mick Lewis. He also leads his own groups: A Tribute to Ella and Louis, 100 Years of Waller, The SHINE Qintet, The Stride Kings, and The Forbidden Weimar Kabarett. Jordan is a member of several other classic jazz bands including The Hot Five Jazz Makers, Chris McKhool's FiddleFire!, and The Yiddish Swingtet. In 2004 Jordan released 100 Years of Waller, an album dedicated to Fats Waller's greatest hits. Next came 2007's SHINE, a quintet album of classic jazz instruments with Climax Jazz Band clarientist Mick Lewis, and The Yiddish Swingtet's SHUL Days, combining two of Jordan's favourite music genres, swing and klezmer. Selections from these latter two CDs can currently be heard internationally on both CBC and Sirius Radio.


Chuck Morey (Drums and Vocals) is one of the finest drummers playing today. Chuck was the principal percussionist with the 89th Army Band for four years. He has played with many famous bands, including Tommy Dorsey, Les Elgart, Tex Beneke, Nelson Riddle, Clyde McCoy, and Jimmy Dorsey. He has played in bands backing such notables as Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, Andy Williams, Jerry Lewis, Carol Channing, Phyllis Diller, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McCrae, Melba Moore, Shirley MacClaine, Jack Jones, Al Martino, Joe Williams, Della Reece, Billy Eckstine, Doc Severinson, Vic Damone, Theresa Brewer, Helen Forrest, and many others. He has played in small jazz groups led by Urbie Green, Clark Terry, Red Norvo, Bobby Hackett, Joe Venuti, and with Jack Mahue's Salt City Six. We are always thrilled to work with him and he always adds new and exciting rhythms to our music.


 Kristen Shiner (Drums and Vocals) has taught percussion at Nazareth College of Rochester, NY since 1984. She has a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Illinois, a Masters Degree in percussion performance from the Eastman School of Music, and has studied at the Toho School of Music in Tokyo. Kristen is the Secretary of the International Percussive Arts Society. Kristen has performed with Clark Terry, Johnny Mathis, Mickey Rooney, MargaretWhiting, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Jim Ferris Jazz Quartet, the Barry Tee Quartet, the Pan Gaia Steel Band, and the all female groups Elle and Those Girls! She has recorded with John Teleska, Walt Atkinson, and Phyllis Contestable. Her drumming and singing abilities bring a lot to the band, and we look forward to many more years of great music with her.