Dave Ihlenfeld

Born: January 24, 1965

Dave Ihlenfeld grew up in St. Louis, where at age 3 he started picking out bass lines to Motown tunes on the family piano. Lessons followed, to be abandoned in favor of viola, euphonium, and finally the tuba, but a piano opening in his high school jazz band provided the musical outlet he was seeking. Gigs followed, but fame and fortune did not, so he attended DePauw and Indiana Universities, and then worked out of Indianapolis as a music teacher and performing musician. Since 1996 he has resided in Arizona, where he is in demand as a jazz pianist and tuba player. He also writes the odd tune, usually employing an odd time signature

Charles Stewart

Former leader of The Crackerjack Jazz Band, currently with the Sun City Stomperz.  Chuck worked with cornetist Bobby Hackett for two years on Cape Cod and has appeared with George Masso, Pee Wee Irwin, Johnny Mince, and Billy Butterfield. He also appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show with the band from the banjo/sing-a-long nightclub chains The Red Garter and Your Father's Mustache. He appeared at Carnegie Hall in October of 2011 with Your Fathers Mustache Reunion Band. He is a veteran of The Paramount Jazz Band of Boston, The East Bay City Jazz Band, the Steamboat Stompers, The Desert City Six, the Happy Feet Dance Orchestra, The Monte Carlo Jazz Ensemble and a charter member of Tex Wyndham's Rent Party Revellers

Richard Fox

Born: October 2, 1973

Richard Fox’s education, including time at both the Guildhall School of Music and City University, led him to develop interests in many areas of music, ranging from jazz and World Music to the classical repertoire. This has equipped him to perform with a wide variety of artists and ensembles including Snarky Puppy, the London Sinfonietta, Paul Whiteman Orchestra, The Brasshoppers, English National Opera, June Tabor and the Creative Jazz Orchestra, Billy Cobham and the Philharmonia.

Debellefontaine Fabien

Born: 1981

Every kind of Saxophones, Sousaphone, Tuba, Clarinet, Flute ... Here is my story. Sent at 8 eight years to the neighbourhood music school, at saxophone due to a lack of staff in the city orchestra (i wanted to play the trumpet, by the way...), and after trying to spend a ? classic ? life, becoming Chemical & Physical Measurements Superior Technician (yes, ma'am), i realize that i definitely prefer blow horns. Actually, Saxophone is not so bad ! After few years learning with Nicolas Dary, Andr�� Vill��ger, Philippe Mac��, Tony Russo, Pierre Bertrand, Nicolas Folmer and Emyl Spanii (Paris 9th), i created a big band named L'Oreille Cass��e, for wich i wrote all the pieces, and i recorded a CD album with Inama, co-led jazz sextet rewarded at Saint-Germain-des-Pr��s and La D��fense 2007 Festivals. Today, i collaborate with Fred Maurin's 13tet Ping Machine and Jean Baptiste Court's quintet Pensativa

Matthew Puralewski

Born: February 8, 1973

Will complete later.

Ben Jaffe

Born: January 26, 1971

The son of Hall founders Allan and Sandra Jaffe, Ben was raised in and around Preservation Hall. Jaffe marched in his first Carnival parade at the age of nine alongside his father and parrain (godfather) Harold "Duke" Dejan. When he was thirteen, the lease on the building that housed the Hall was up for renewal. His father sat the family down and asked Ben whether they should continue. By 1984, many of the original musicians who had played at the Hall in its early days had passed away, yet the soul of the Hall remained the same. The young Jaffe replied, "Of course you continue!" Less than ten years later, the day after graduating from Oberlin College, Jaffe flew off to play upright bass with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in France and began overseeing operations at the Hall

Joseph Daley

Born: August 6, 1949

JOSEPH DALEY Musician/Composer/Educator specializing in new/contemporary music, jazz, and improvisation Studied at the Manhattan School of Music attaining a master��s degree in music education Received fellowships in music composition from the National Endowment, MacDowell Colony, Music Omi and Geraldine R Dodge Foundation He is a retired public school music educator completing 30 years of service. In 2010 Joseph Daley released his first leadership CD entitled ��The Seven Deadly Sins�� on Jaro records. It is the initial documentation of his work as a composer. Mr. Daley has performed, recorded and toured the world with the following artists: Muhal Richard Abrams, Bill Cole, Far East Side Band, Sam Rivers, Ellery Eskelin, Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra, Gil Evans, Carla Bley, Taj Mahal/Tuba Band, Jayne Cortez, George Gruntz, Howard Johnson/Gravity, Ebony Brass Quintet, Paradigm Shift, Dave Douglas, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Craig Harris/God's Trombones, Taylor Ho Bynum/Spider Monkey Strings, Jason Kao Hwang/Burning Bridge and Hazmat Modine Website: jodamusic.com

Bert Sl?ttung

Born: July 6, 1938

To be written later.

Al Bernard

"All forms of mayhem on tuba - jazz and classical."

Howard Johnson

Born: August 7, 1941

Howard Johnson is universally known as the finest proponent of the jazz tuba in the world, as well as being quite proficient on the baritone saxophone. He also plays flugelhorn, bass clarinet, cornet, and penny whistle among other instruments. Howard was born in Montgomery, Alabama on August 7, 1941. He taught himself the baritone sax in 1954 and the tuba a year later. He moved to New York in 1963��at a time when the tuba was not a fashionable jazz instrument (outside of the New Orleans-style bass-line chores, the only visible player was Ray Draper) but Charles Mingus welcomed Howard into his workshop in 1964