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Graduating from SJSU in 1978 with BA in Music Performance, Classical and Jazz Piano, Wendy spent her formal years studying Classical piano and has been performing Jazz and Contemporary music for 30 years. During the ‘70's she performed with the De Anza College Daddio Band and the Bay Bones, appearing with several studio jazz artists Don Menza, Ed Shaughnessey, Lew Tabakin, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Jim Pugh, Bill Watrous and Frank Rosolino. From late ‘70's through ‘80's Wendy played various Bay Area jazz and country western venues. Recording experiences include sound sheets for guitarist Warren Nunes' educational improvisational books, a demo project at the Record Plant and co-producing and performing on an LP by country western swing band A Touch Of Texas. During the ‘90's she performed with Bay Area jazz vocalist Christine Marie Cotura at San Jose downtown venues such as Bella Mia Restaurant, the De Anza Hotel Hedley Club Lounge and the San Jose Jazz Festival, including solo jazz piano performances at the San Jose Museum of Art and forming her own jazz piano trio, playing in venues such as Club Jazz, Gerard's and Bella Saratoga.

Jo Major started his musical at the tender age of about 10. At that time a major accomplishment was cleaning his mouthpiece before the band instructor smelled it. By the age of 15, he was playing in a variety of dance bands in the Midwest . During college, he enjoyed a three-year tenure with the University of Illinois Jazz Band under John Garvey followed by playing for two years with the Jimmy Dorsey big band. Jo presently plays with several Bay area big bands, including covering the lead alto chair in “A Touch of Brass” and also plays with smaller jazz ensembles. His playing has improved since he was 10, but more importantly he has learned to keep his mouthpieces a bit cleaner over time.

Scott has performed in many settings and across musical genres from swinging hard in jazz combos and big bands to precision work in orchestras and percussion ensembles.

In 2002, Scott received his Bachelor’s in Percussion from San Jose State University. He previously completed coursework at the University of Nevada at Reno, which is where his nickname came from. In 2005, after earning his Masters in Music, Jazz Studies from the world-renowned, University of North Texas, he returned to Northern California to work with several Bay Area high schools, building percussion programs from the ground up and presenting children’s percussion concerts several times a year.

Scott’s passion for music performance and education brought him back home to Sacramento where he has taught at several Sacramento area high schools, including Granite Bay, Bella Vista, and his alma mater, the prestigious Rio Americano. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Cosumnes River College.

Vern Brooks Latin Big Band: 1973 - 1974  & 1975 – 1977
U.S. Naval School of Music : grad. 1974
U.S. Army's 7th  & 8th Infantry Division Bands: 1974 – 1983
Johnny “Guitar” Watson's European Tour 1981
West Valley College 8 O'clock Jazz Band, Joe Davis Director: '93-'99
Galvin Jackson's Metro Big Band: 1994 –1996
Mike Sloan Big Band: 1992 – 1998
U.S. Army's 91st Division Band: 1991 – 1993 & 2001 - present
Swing Solution: 1993 –1997, 1999 – present
A Touch Of Brass with Ed Morrison: 1996 - present
Silicon Valley Houserockers: 2003 – present
Full Spectrum Jazz: 2003 – present
Silicon Vibe: 2003 – present
Ohlone College Community Band: 2003 – present
Also appeared with: Louis Belson, Black Tie Orchestra, String of Pearls, Chris Ferrari

Jeff played his college jazz with the U.C. Berkeley Jazz Ensemble, doing summer tours of Europe and Japan , appearing in the Pori Jazz Festival and Kyoto Jazz Festival line-ups along-side Dizzy Gillespie, BB King, Tim Hagans, Tony Williams, Sun Ra and Sonny Rollins. As a South-Bay resident jazz player for the past mumble years, Jeff has had the opportunity to perform with Bill Watrous, Quincy Jones, Stanley Jordon, Babatunde, Jerome Richardson, Rory Snyder, Gap Mangione and Earl ‘Fatha' Hines.

Ed Morrison has 40 years of musical accomplishments as lead trumpet backing such notables as Larry Elgart, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Frankie Valli, Bobby Rydell,Fabian, as well as playing for jazz greats John Faddis,Steve Turre, and Kevin Mahogany.  In addition, he also plays lead and directs his own 18 piece big band, "A Touch of Brass". He free-lances with many different types of groups playing styles from salsa to funk to Gospel and theatre. Ed's biggest musical influence is trumpeter Doc Severinsen.

David started playing the trumpet at the age of 9 when he was a student in the Palo Alto Unified School District. He has now returned to that district as a music teacher, directing the bands at Jordan Middle School for the past 15 years.  In the intervening years he attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied jazz improvisation with Billy Pierce and John La Porta.  He also attended San Jose State University where he received his Teaching Credential in 1990.  David has spent the last 25 summers teaching improvisation at the Stanford Jazz Workshop where he has had the privilege of performing with such jazz greats as Victor Lewis, Bruce Forman, John Santos, Julian Lage and Louis Bellson.  In addition to A Touch of Brass, over the past few years David has performed regularly with the De Anza Daddios, the West Valley College Big Band, The KA Wonton Little Latin Big Band and the Mike Cohen Sextet. 

Pete has been playing trumpet and flugelhorn for over 35 years performing diverse styles ranging from big band, jazz combo, rock, to classical brass quintet and soloist. As a young teen in the early 70’s Pete got his first taste of “gigging” with the big band The Blue Velvet Sound. When Marriott’s Great America opened in 1976 he played there while getting his degree in geophysics at UC Davis.

Nowadays, Pete is a regular with San Francisco Bay Area big bands A Touch of Brass and DeAnza’s 8 O’clock Daddios and can be heard on the recent A Touch of Brass CD “Doin’ It Right”. In the summer of 2006 Pete toured throughout China performing with the DVC Jazz Ensemble. Pete has played numerous musicals including West Side Story, The Wiz, Cats, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Guys and Dolls, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Seussical the Musical. If you look down into the pit at the MVCPA you may find Pete playing in support of the local youth theater company PYT where his children sometimes perform.

Jason graduated with a degree in Trombone Performance in 2005 from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. There, he studied with Roy Main and performed with the University Jazz Band No.1 under the direction of Paul Rinzler. He completed his music education credential at San Jose State in 2007 and is currently one of the music directors at Mountain View High School where he teaches Jazz Band, Marching Band and two String Orchestras. Jason has performed with the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum & Bugle Corps and has enjoyed teaching the Vanguard Cadets since 2004. When not playing or teaching music, Jason enjoys mountain biking, video gaming, and relaxing with family and friends.