Silicon Stompers About the Band

About the Band

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Members of the band:

Jon Schermer: trombone

Franklin Davis: cornet

Paul Price: piano
Mike Hart: tuba

And pictured below are:

Pat Dutrow: banjo

Mike Young: reeds

The Band

Read about the Silicon Stompers musicians below!

Jon Schermer -- trombone Jon first heard traditional jazz when he was in grade school, and his uncle took him to The Annual Ragtime & Traditional Jazz Festival in St. Louis, Missouri. There, he saw groups like The Salty Dogs and Turk Murphy’s band. Several years later, he went back to the festival and heard the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra. In the early 80’s, Jon moved to the Bay Area, joined Royal Society, and had the opportunity to play at the Saint Louis Ragtime Festival. Since his arrival in the Bay Area, Jon has played with many big bands, theater groups, combos, and even an occasional classical group.
Franklin Davis -- cornet San Francisco native and Lowell High graduate Franklin Davis holds degrees in music from S.F. State University. He plays and teaches all the brass instruments. He serves as co-principal trumpet in Redwood Symphony and program annotator for both Symphony Parnassus and Redwood Symphony. Franklin has performed with operas, ballets, and symphonies all around the San Francisco Bay Area, and has played lead trumpet in Don Neely’s Royal Society Jazz Orchestra since the 1980s and traditional jazz with Silicon Gulch Jazz Band at the Swingin' Door since 2010. He also leads and arranges horn charts for The Matterhorns, the horn section of The E-Ticket Classic Rock Band . Franklin leads his own groups too, including Gabriel’s Herald Trumpets, The Toppman Trio (Vintage Jazz), The Brassworks Quintet, and The Brassworks Band, featured for many years at San Francisco’s Dickens Christmas Fair. Visit his website and his YouTube channel.
Paul Price -- piano A Bay Area native and lifelong devotee of vintage music, Paul began playing traditional jazz during high school, as a founding member of the Churchill Street Jazz Band, and later Professor Plum's Jazz, and this band. An avid student of popular music history, he has also played with several orchestras preserving and reviving early popular music, including his own "society orchestra", working alongside dance historians, and using original vintage orchestrations. Guided by his extensive library of vintage recordings, Paul looks for original source material and seeks to follow in its footsteps. Visit his website!
Mike Hart -- tuba Mike, also a native San Franciscan, studied piano and sang in his Church choir as a young boy. After being introduced to early rock and roll by Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and later to blues by local SF bands, he found himself enjoying early American roots music. Mike started tuba in high school and later joined a ragtime band. This led to playing with ragtime and traditional jazz bands in the Bay Area. Following his work career with the City of San Francisco, he joined Bay Area bands, Fog City Stompers, Silicon Gulch Jazz Band, and Silicon Stompers. He also plays in community bands and orchestras in San Francisco and Half Moon Bay, as well as an Oktoberfest band. He enjoys making music with his bandmates and is continuing to try to attend to his sacred duty as a bass player.
Pat Dutrow -- banjo Pat's bio coming soon!
Mike Young -- reeds Mike's bio coming soon!