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2011 AFCDJS Adult Jazz Camp Faculty |
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PHIL KIRK (trumpet/cornet) was well known
as a member of Professor Plum’s Jazz. The group played
over 200 festivals and numerous cruises and international
tours with Phil on trumpet. Phil has always considered
himself a professional musician although his “hobby” was
working for IBM in San Jose. After moving to San Diego in
1994, Phil played with the 10th Avenue Jazz Band and is
currently a member of the Red Pepper Jazz Band. Initially,
he just loved to play, but he has grown to appreciate the
history of jazz and has collected over 200 jazz books and
added countless CD’s to his library. Phil Kirk is the new
Assistant Director for the San Diego Thanksgiving
Dixieland Jazz Festival and a member of AFCDJS’ Board of
Directors. |
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CLINT
BAKER (trombone) has taught at our jazz camp since
1997. Clint was a world-class brass bassist while still a
teenager. Since then he has also become proficient on
cornet, trombone, reeds, banjo, guitar, bass and drums. He
has performed with Jim Cullum’s Jazz Band, the Boilermaker
Jazz Band, Roadrunners, High Sierra Jazz Band, Gremoli and
Golden Eagles. Currently he leads the Café Borrone
All-Stars and plays various instruments with the Reynolds
Brothers Rhythm Rascals, Climax Jazz Band, Grand Dominion
Jazz Band, Hot Club of San Francisco and the Yerba Buena
Stompers. In addition to his instrumental prowess, Clint
is also a lecturer on jazz and is the Archivist of the San
Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation. |
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JIM BUCHMANN
(clarinet, sax) has played with Turk Murphy, Lu Watters,
Max Kaminsky, Ralph Sutton, Bill Allred, Kenny Davern and
Dick Hyman, plus Don Kinch’s Conductors, Rosie O’Grady’s
Good Time Jazz Band, the original Black Dogs, Reynolds
Brothers, 10th Avenue Jazz Band, Big Mama Sue’s Follies
and more. He also taught reeds at the Mammoth Lakes and
Sacramento jazz camps. (One of his most prominent students
is Claire McKenna, of the Mighty Aphrodite Jazz Band).
Currently, Jim plays with the Climax Jazz Band and
frequently fills in for other reed players with such
groups as the Buck Creek Jazz Band, Grand Dominion Jazz
Band, Uptown Lowdown and the Bob Crosby Bobcats. Among
musicians and fans, he is known as “Gentleman Jim.” |
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JOHN ROYEN (piano)
studied with Don Ewell—one of the greatest of all
traditional jazz pianists. John moved to New Orleans from
Washington D.C. in 1976 and has continued to maintain a
busy schedule as soloist and band pianist. He has
performed, toured and recorded with such notables as Pete
Fountain, The Dukes of Dixieland, The Louisiana Repertory
Jazz Ensemble, Duke Heitger's Steamboat Stompers, Tim
Laughlin, Bobby Gordon and the Independence Hall Jazz
Band. John has also performed for more than 20 years with
the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. His piano stylings have
thrilled audiences from Metairie to Moscow. 2008 marks
John’s sixth appearance at the AFCDJS jazz camp. |
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KATIE CAVERA (banjo,
guitar) has gone from jazz camp student to international
jazz star! Katie has worked with the Mighty Aphrodite Jazz
Band, Jim Cullum Jazz Band, Firehouse Stompers, Night
Blooming Jazzmen, Gremoli, Golden Eagles and Brady McKay’s
Left Coast All-Stars, among others. She has also played
extensively in bands led by Clint Baker (New Orleans Jazz
Band, Café Borrone All-Stars), Hal Smith (Hal’s Angels,
Jazz Chihuahuas) and Alan Adams (New Orleans Wanderers).
Currently she is with the Reynolds Brothers Rhythm
Rascals, CJ and Katie, the Lucky Winners, Cash Kings
(Johnny Cash Tribute band) and the Hayriders (Rockabilly).
Since 2006, Katie has done several overseas tours with the
Paris-based musical revue “Looking For Josephine” |
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MARTY EGGERS (bass,
tuba) helped to organize the Sacramento Ragtime Society
while still a teenager. He started out as a pianist (and
continues to enjoy a reputation as one of the best
ragtimers in the U.S.). He took up bass in the 1980s and
played with the Good Time Levee Stompers, Clint Baker’s
New Orleans Jazz Band, Bo Grumpus, Rebecca Kilgore and the
California Swing Cats, Leon Redbone and many others. At
the present time he plays with the Butch Thompson Trio,
Carl Sonny Leyland Trio, Yerba Buena Stompers, the
Tichenor Family Five, Royal Society Jazz Orchestra and the
Black Diamond Jazz Band. In addition to his outstanding
reputation as a pianist and bassist, Marty is an excellent
ragtime and ‘20s-style brass bassist. |
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STEVE APPLE (drums)
started playing drums at the age of five, on a toy drum
set supplied by his very tolerant mother. In 1975, at age
14, he joined the Churchill Street Jazz Band, made up of
students at Palo Alto High School under the guidance of
veteran banjo player Bill Armstrong. In 1979, after
graduating from high school, he joined the Royal Society
Jazz Orchestra. He has also played extensively with other
Bay area Traditional Jazz bands such as Professor Plum,
Magnolia Jazz Band, and the Jelly Roll Jazz Band, as well
as recording with various studio groups for Stomp Off
Records. He cites Davey Tough, Ray Baduc and early Gene
Krupa, as well as Chicago"s Wayne Jones and Hal Smith as
his major influences. |
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