Players

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Chuck Berghofer

Chuck Berghofer, one  of LA’s finest bass players, has had a varied career as a jazz musician and studio artist. He has performed with Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Mel Torme, Sarah Vaughan and more rece...
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Jeff Hamilton

A reliable and versatile drummer who sounds equally at home with a big band or combo, Jeff Hamilton has a strong reputation in the jazz world. He attended Indiana University, in 1974 was with the Tommy...
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Emil Richards

Emil Richards (born Emilio Radocchia) in 1932 in Hartford, Connecticut started playing the xylophone at age six. He is a graduate of Julius Hart School of Music, (now known as University of Connecticut...
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Gene Cipriano

Gene Cipriano (Gene “Cip” Cipriano) is one of Hollywood’s most recorded musicians, working with many of the greatest musicians and recording artists over the past 50 years, Cip’...
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Dick Nash

Dick Nash started playing a brass instrument at the age of 10. His parents died and, since he was very young, he went to a boarding school where he came in contact with brass playing. His first brass i...
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Plas Johnson

Jazz aficionados know him by name, but almost anyone exposed to music is familiar with his playing. His is the purring sax solo on Henry Mancini’s famous “Pink Panther” movie theme so...
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Bill Peterson

A native born Angeleno, Bill Peterson found his trumpet took him into the US Air Force, to UCLA, to all the clubs on the Sunset Strip, to the Cal Neva Lodge, to the Coconut Grove, the Hollywood Bowl, a...
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Bob Bain

Bob Bain earned his place as the number one guitarist for many Hollywood studios in the 1950s and ’60s. He played on countless jingles, albums, and soundtracks for television and movies. There were als...