Band Members

Acoustic Bass Michael Ryle started out playing R&B on the road but eventually he abandoned the bass guitar for the acoustic bass. After less than a year of study with Edgar Meyer and at the University of Tennessee he was…

Drummer As a drummer, Gary Johnson has been working professionally for over forty years. He is the son of New England jazz great Dick Johnson. For four years he toured extensively with the revamped Artie Shaw Orchestra, under the direction…

Trumpet Jeff is a native of Quincy MA, where he came up through the public schools’ music program.  He discovered jazz while in college, becoming a devotee of Bix Beiderbecke, Bunny Berigan, and Bobby Hackett.  In graduate school Jeff was…

Clarinet and Saxophone Born and raised in Natick, John Clark began playing professionally in the Boston area as a substitute with various Dixieland and big bands, including the Dixieland Strutters, the Legacy Jazz Band, Commonwealth Jazz, the New Black Eagle…

Vocalist Since returning from California to her home on Cape Cod in 2006, Lori has performed live at local restaurants and events, and throughout New England, for 20+ years. She has opened for the prestigious Pops by the Sea, featuring…

Piano Mwalim (Morgan James Peters) is a multi-award-winning musician, composer, vocalist, arranger, playwright, poet, and novelist. A member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, with his maternal side originating from Barbados, much of his work as a composer and writer explore the…

Writer/Narrator Mick Carlon’s Jazz novels – “Riding Duke’s Train”, “Travels With Louis”, and “Girl Singer” (Leapfrog Press) are now part of the curriculum of more than one hundred schools in the USA, Mexico, France, and Spain. According to the late…

Guitar Andy Troyanos is a lifetime resident of Cape Cod and has been a music educator for the past 30 years, with the last 23 years in the Mashpee School system.  He is a graduate of Sandwich High School and…

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