MUSICIANS

BARRY DAVIS, TENOR SAX

Barry has played saxes and clarinet in dance
bands since high school (only regrets-- never
gets to dance with the ladies!). Besides the
Swingtime Big Band, he also sings and plays
reeds, guitar and banjo in a number of other
groups ((Sax Appeal Saxophone Quartet, ,
Paramount Jazz Orchestra [pre-swing
1929s-30s"hot jazz"], Dixieland Express,
Polyhymnia acappella Chamber Choir,
Hometowne Barbershop Chorus, Scale Tippers
Barbershop Quartet, Carefree Strangers Folk
Group). He is especially inspired by two
annual events: world-class performers at the
Navy Band's Saxophone Symposium., and
performing with his sax quartet at the Adult
Chamber Music Workshop.

Barry Davis grew up in rural/small-town
Wyoming, lots of country music, not much
classical. Earned a bachelor's in biology
(Dartmouth and Earlham Colleges) in biology,
did two years Alternative Service, community
development and workcamps in France and
India with International Voluntary Service, then
earned a biochemistry Ph.D. from Univ. of
Miami Medical School.

As a college professor he did medical
research at Washington University and taught
at Montgomery College until retiring to recruit
scientific reviewers who evaluate cancer
research grant applications.

VICTOR AGRESTI, TRUMPET

First Trumpet, Swing Time Big Band; 1st
trumpet D.C. National Guard Band (early
1970's); member of Rockville Concert Band
since 1965
http://www.rocknet.org/Leisure/band/ ) and
principal trumpet for last 30 years;
co-first trumpet in the Montgomery Village
Band
http://www.geocities.com/mvcband/index.htm

Member of Virginia Grand Military
Band http://www.vgmb.com and has played
with numerous quintets and theatre
orchestras.

Private lessons from Frank Chabrinski,
Professional Trumpeter; and Dr. Emerson
Head, Professor of Trumpet Studies,
University of Maryland.

FRED TALCOTT, UPRIGHT BASS

Full-time environmental policy
analyst; part-time musician and
mural painter.

Recent performance include
public and private engagements
with; quartets and quintets with
jazz vocalist; the Hexagon Show;
the British Embassy Players' Old
Time Music Hall; The Arlington
Players; the Tuba Christmas at the
Kennedy Center and ceremonial
music for the U.S Coast Guard, the
U.S, EPA, and other Federal
agencies.

BOB VERNIER, TRUMPET

Born in Baltimore MD and played
clarinet in school band from fourth
grade through high school.

Picked up trumpet at age 21 and
have been playing in church,
community, and small group
organizations ever since including
Perry Hall Baptist Church Orchestra,
Naval Surface Warfare Center
Concert Band, Rockville Concert
Band, and Lochhaven Brass Quintet.

Currently playing in the
Browningsville Cornet Band,
Paramount Jazz Orchestra, and
Dixieland Express, in addition to the
STBB. Day job is Aerospace Engineer
at the Goddard Space Flight Center.

DON CHAPMAN, TRUMPET

JOHN STEWART, TROMBONE

Retired, formerly with the Dept, of
Energy.

Also trombonist with the Dixieland
Express and the Olney Community
Band.

Serves on the Potomac River Jazz
Club Board

DAN REINHART, TROMBONE

I started playing trombone almost 50 years
ago by listening and trying to play along
with my father's Tommy Dorsey and Glenn
Miller records.

Over the years, I've studied with several
teachers, but I rarely have continued
these lessons for more than a few months
at a time.

During those years I alternated between
playing trombone and trumpet and not
playing at all. In the 1980s I stopped
playing trombone altogether and started
practicing saxophone, performing
regularly in public parks and Metro
stations around DC.

About 1990, I returned to playing trombone
and started playing with several hot jazz
and swing bands in the Washington
metropolitan area.

My greatest influences among trombonists

include: Tommy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden,
J. J. Johnson and Bill Watrous.

FRED HENDRICKS, BARI SAX

Born Indianapolis, IN. Played in
high-school marching, symphonic,
and dance bands. Also played in
Indianapolis News Newsboys Band
age 12-15. Played in college
dance-band based at Indiana
University. Put horns away after
college. Did not play another note
(except piano) until about 3 years
ago. Now play in STBB,
sax/clarinet quartet, Montgomery
Symphony, and Browningsville
Cornet Band. Also collaborative
arranging for STBB.

PAUL PINKHAM, GUITAR

Early years- Cum Laude graduate
of Berklee College
of Music with a Bachelor of Arts in
Music Composition.

Worked with Atlantic recording
artists" Black Heat". Also traveled
with "Tonal Extensions" and
"Jungle Rock" before retiring in
1979.

Currently- Came out of retirement
in 2001 to play with
the Swing Time Big Band.

SUE HEGSTROM

Sue Ellen Hegstrom was born and
raised in Iowa, and is a graduate of
The University of Iowa and
Kirkwood Community College

Sue Received a music scholarship
to the University of Iowa. Study
with Paula Boire and Jocelyn
Carmichael while a student at the
University of Iowa.

Sue has been singing since age of
six in a variety of styles; country;
pop; classical; Broadway and Jazz.

In 2001, Sue joined Swing Time Big
Band as principle vocalist.

Ms. Hegstrom, in addition to
singing, is also an avid reader and
“scrapbooker”. She has two
beautiful cats and is engaged to
be married in the spring of 2006.

BRUCE DAVIES, PERCUSSIONIST

Bruce Davies lives in North
Potomac, Maryland and currently
plays with several musical groups
in the Washington metropolitan
area.

Bruce played with the North
Carolina Symphony in Raleigh.

Bruce studied privately with Scott
Stevens and Saul Goodman. After
graduating from Rice University,

Bruce lives in North Potomac, and
has three children: Adam, Sarah
and Joey.

PAUL NISSON, ALTO SAX

I played clarinet and alto sax in my
elementary school band ('62-'65)
and studied Jazz sax for one
semester at Berklee College of
music during my senior year at
Harvard College (AB '75).

After a 30 year hiatus, during which
I got my Ph.D. in Biophysics, raised
a family of three sons, now 15, 19
and 21, I took up the alto sax and
clarinet again in earnest in January
of '04 studying with Jim Bensinger,
a superb local musician and
teacher.
Along with playing with Swing Time
Big Band I also play clarinet with
the Browningsiville band, under
the directorship of Gerry Geisbert

BOB ALLEN, TRUMPET, TROMBONE
CO-MUSICAL DIRECTOR
A native of upstate New York and
lifelong “Drum Corps Nut”, Bob
holds both BM (Music Education ’
81) and MM (Brass Performance ’
85) degrees from Ithaca College.

After a three year stint teaching
instrumental music in the New
York public schools, he turned to a
new career in Software
Engineering and relocated to
Clarksburg MD with his wife Palma
and three kids in 1996.

After a nearly 18 year hiatus from
musical pursuits, Bob dusted off
his horns in 2003 and since then
has been active in a variety of
performing groups throughout
Frederick and Montgomery
counties. His recent credits on
French Horn, Trumpet, and
Trombone include the
Browningsville Cornet Band,
Rockville and Montgomery Village
Community Bands, Star Spangled
Big Band, Swing Time Big Band,
Village Jazz Band, Citizen’s Brass,
and an assortment of smaller
ensembles.

GERRY GEISBERT, ALTO SAX

Gerry taught himself to play sax at
the age of 10.
He played in the marching, concert
and jazz bands through high
school.
He played with the Army 5th
Infantry Division Band from 1982 to
1983.
Besides playing with Swing Time
Big Band, he is currently Director
of the Browinigsville Cornet Band
and plays with Harmony, Yellow
Springs and Rhorersville
Community Bands as well as a
Saxophone and Clarinet Chamber
Quartet.

MARK NACHTIEB, TROMBONE

Mark's been playing almost forty
years. He played lead trombone
up until college and then switched
to bass bone in the University of
Illinois Symphonic Band Program.

He played in the New Watusi Jazz
Unit, an avant garde big band and
dance troupe in Urbana. Mark's
taken his trombone with him
during his travels around the
world, playing in a Hindu wedding
band in Nepal and with a local
band in Sierra Leone. He played
with a concert band in Guangzhou,
China. He's been with the Fugitive
Brass Quintet, a Washington, DC
area group, for almost ten years.

Mark is a Foreign Service Officer.
He is fluent in Nepali, Mandarin
and Melanesian Pijin. He has lived
or worked in Bosnia, Bulgaria, Fiji,
Marshall Islands, Nepal, Papua
New Guinea, Sierra Leone,
Solomon Islands, Kingdom of
Tonga, Vanuatu, and the People's
Republic of China.

HAROLD LOWE, TENOR SAX AND
CLARINET

Harold's musical career began as a
youngster in New York. In junior high
school he played in the high school
marching and concert bands. After
moving to Maryland in 1956 he played
lead tenor saxaphone in a group that,
depending on the contract, ranged from
a sextet to a full 18 piece swing band.
Through 2 years at the University of
Maryland he played in both the marching
and symphonic bands at which point he
packed up his instruments and focused
on his education, family and career.

Harold is the founder and owner of Lowe
FS, a fully independent financial services
company that provides planning and
investment advisory services primarily
to individuals. He has a blended family
of 4 children, 5 grandchildren and
resides in Sandy Spring, MD.

Several years ago he unpacked his
instruments, reinitiated taking private
lessons and began looking for
someplace to play. This has resulted in
him now playing clarinet in the
Montgomery Symphony Orchestra,
participating in a saxaphone quartet and
of course is a member of STBB.

LEN MORRIS, TRUMPET
MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Len began his musical career in
fifth grade, playing trumpet, and
has since played in numerous
ensembles throughout his
education. Len graduated from
Towson State University with a
Bachelor of Science, having
studied both geography and music.

Len is a founding member of the
Fugitive Brass Quintet,
co-assistant conductor and
trumpeter in the Rockville Concert
Band (with whom he has toured
Eastern Europe), and also plays in
the Rockville Swing Band, the
Rockville Dixie Rascals, the
Rockville Brass Band. He also
freelances on trumpet whenever
possible, having gained
experience in churches and pit
orchestras around Maryland and
Washington, D.C.

Len devotes much of his
non-trumpet time to the Columbia
Concert Band as the percussion
section leader and
recently-elected Vice-President of
the CCB Executive Board.
Additionally, he conducts and
arranges/composes for chamber
groups. He currently directs Flute
Cocktail, an eight-piece flute choir,
and the Swing Time Big Band.

Len presently works as a
cartographer for the FAA in Silver
Spring, Maryland.

DON HAYDEN, TENOR SAX

SWING TIME BIG BAND
ORIGINATOR, BUSINESS MANAGER
AND OWNER

Played clarinet in High School
Band.

Formed and played in several
small dance bands during College.

Took twenty five years off from
playing my instrument to earn a
living, marry, and raise four
children with my wife of
now 45 years!

Re-entered the music field, by
joining the Montgomery Village
Community Band in 1994.

In 1998, started Swing Time Big
Band. Played our first commercial
gig in 1999, and the rest is
history....

MIKE BURNETTE, TRUMPET

BOB GRAVES, ALTO SAX

I'm a native Washingtonian. Started
playing sax in 4th grade and played
straight through college.

Other saxophone playing experiences
have been with Walt Whitman High
School concert and Dance Band, Wake
Forest University Marching Band (Go
Deacs!) as lead alto player for Wake's
award winning Jazz Band. I also spent an
entire one month mini-semester
traveling throughout North Carolina with
the WFU Jazz Band.

I am a founding member of Wake Forest's
Jazz quartet "Catalyst". Played at many
venues while at Wake and had the great
pleasure of returning to my alma mater
for a reunion concert in the fall of 2000.
Hope to repeat at my 35th college
reunion in the fall of '08.

Put the sax away for about 25 years
(except for an occasional Xmas party) to
raise my family of three children in the
DC suburbs. Now have three wonderful
grandchildren and a very supportive wife
of 35 years.

When not playing music, I'm a partner in
an insurance brokerage firm in Bethesda.

I was introduced to STBB by my church
buddy Harold Lowe. Couldn't be more
thrilled to be part of a great sax section
and a terrific band!

ROGER COLEMAN
PIANIST AND GUITARIST

He holds a BA in Music and a BFA
in piano performance from SUNY
Buffalo and a Master's degree in
Music from the University of
Maryland.
Roger is an Associate Professor of
Music at Montgomery College on
the Takoma Park campus.
He performs classical music with
the Washington Area Piano
Society, and plays with several
area Rock bands.
Roger Coleman is a pianist and
guitarist who plays many different
styles of music.

BRUCE MORRIS, TRUMPET