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2008 AFCDJS Adult Jazz Camp Faculty |
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CLINT
BAKER (cornet) 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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ALAN ADAMS (trombone,
director) was one of the founders of the AFCDJS jazz camp.
He plays an active role in the San Diego jazz scene as
trombonist, tubist and Executive Director of America’s
Finest City Dixieland Jazz Society. For many years, Alan
performed at the San Diego County Fair with the Dixie
Hasslers and at the Del Mar Race Track with Mississippi
Dixie. He has played with Ira Cobb’s Jazzbo, Frisco
Syncopators, Leon Redbone, Yerba Buena Stompers, Uptown
Lowdown, Hal Smith’s Rhythmakers, Golden Eagles and the
Red Pepper Jazz Band. Since 1997 he has led the New
Orleans Wanderers. Alan is one of the instructors at the
AFCDJS monthly jazz workshops and hosts “The Dixie Hour”
radio program on Jazz 88/KSDS-FM. |
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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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HAL SMITH (drums,
assistant director) has played with the Dukes of
Dixieland, Jim Cullum, Soprano Summit, South Frisco Jazz
Band, Grand Dominion Jazz Band, Black Eagle Jazz Band,
Climax Jazz Band and many others. His own groups included
the Roadrunners, Frisco Syncopators and Hal’s Angels. He
has made over 160 recordings and his articles have
appeared in publications from the Mississippi Rag to the
Bulletin of the Hot Club of France. Currently Hal plays
with the Carl Sonny Leyland Trio, Butch Thompson Trio,
Yerba Buena Stompers, Bob Schulz’s Frisco Jazz Band,
several blues bands, the Cash Kings, Big Rig Deluxe and
leads Blue Voo (swing) and the Hayriders. Hal is AFCDJS
President/Assistant Director and is a founder of the jazz
camp. |
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