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Tom Ball

Tom is the composer of San Juan Strut, Jaco Paco, and is TMT bassist. He has played electric bass for over two decades in a variety of groups and styles. Tom enjoys the creative musical process and finding the time and focus to get "in the flow". 

  Dana Melick

Dana has been playing musical instruments since he was seven years old and graduated from Indiana University with a performance degree in Jazz Studies. Dana has very eclectic tastes from Aerosmith to Prince to Yo-Yo Ma and enjoys playing all variety of music.  He realized he could sing when he hit thirty and has been playing and singing ever since in choirs and bands.  His wife and three boys keeps him busy when he isn’t performing or working. 

 

   Noel Barnes



Noel broke into Seattle's music scene in 1995 after a 5 year layoff.  Previously, he played tenor and alto sax in the Highline Community College Jazz Ensemble.  He has also played with many local notable artists, such as Darren Motamedy, Kenny G, Jeff Kashiwa,Jay Thomas, Dan Goforth,  the late Floyd Standifer, and Michael Powers.



  Bob Toomey

Bob has played guitar since age ten and has an eclectic taste in music. He is in business as a financial adviser. Outside music, Bob loves hiking, reading, and fly fishing. Married with three kids, Bob was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts.  



Maureen Fleischman
Maureen started playing piano and guitar at age twelve and sang her way through summer camp, church choir and high school jazz choir where she was part of a female jazz quartet that placed first at the Reno International Jazz Festival. College years brought folk-singing gigs at coffee houses, covering Carly, Carole, Joni, Judi, James & Dan. When she is not chasing her three grown children around she enjoys her work as a Special Ed teacher and worship leader.

Steve Cozart

Steve's been pounding the skins since age twelve.  At Southern Oregon Steve played percussion professionally with the Rougue Valley Symphony Orchestra, but his true love is rock and rhythm and blues, where he's been the driving beat behind several bands with eclectic tastes but a shared common theme to make people get up and dance! Steve lives in Bellevue with his wife and 2 kids where he enjoys skiing and biking.