Dave Skinner (alto sax) has been playing woodwinds and performing since the age of 11. Originally from southeast Mass, he performed with groups in the Boston area, notably with the popular horn group Soul Village. Since then, he has performed internationally including in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Indonesia. Now in the Lowcountry, Dave now performs regularly with groups such as Evolution Big Band, Chilly WIlly Band, and the Celebrity All-star band out of Atlanta.

Scot began his professional career at the age of 12 years old. He attended the Berklee College of music and upon graduation moved to Los Angeles in 1980. During his two decades in Los Angeles Scot was credited as a solo artist, producer, studio musician and composer.  As a composer, Scot received two "Emmy Awards" for "Best musicin a daytime television series", "Santa Barbara" (NBC). In addition, Scot further produced  music for over 20 top television series. He is credited with eight solo albums with his self entitled group, "Scheer Music" and others. As an educator, Scot designed and taught production and engineering in five major colleges in the Southern California area including UCLA among many others.  Scot now recently comes to us from Las Vegas and Rhode Island residing in South Carolina since 2021.

Charlie is a longtime friend of Bill’s; they met at Freshman Jazz Combo class at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 1976 and somehow managed to both move to the Lowcountry at about the same time!

Charlie is truly one of the busiest keyboardists in the area due to the fact that he can play pretty much anything!

Wayne Altman is in high demand around town due to the fact that he is both a great drummer and a great singer!

We are very pleased have him as a true double threat in our lineup!

Tracy Yarbrough is a Savannah, GA native. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Trumpet Performance and Composition from Georgia Southern College in 1986. Over the last 40 years, Tracy has performed with groups such as the Savannah Symphony, Savannah Jazz Orchestra, Odyssey Jazz Ensemble, The Four Tops, Temptations, Cab Calloway, and others. He is considered a renowned trumpet pedagogue in this area as well as a versatile player.

Veronica is an original Lowcountry girl who got her start singing in the church youth choir and praise band for 15 years. She is a wife of one and mother of 3 and a grandmother of 6! Who knew…Veronica says that while she was never good as speaking in front of a crowd she could express herself better through song, the one thing that every human has in common-their voice. Music is an expression of her soul. In addition to learning the cowbell, she also manages her Veronica Martini Designs business.

Leon has performed professionally in 8 decades (so far!) and has been here in the Lowcountry for 40 years, playing in over a hundred venues with such notables as The Truly Dangerous Swamp Band, The Improv Band, and more recently, the Jazz Corner All-Stars and Shannon Tanner's Oyster Reefers Band.

His business card specifies: "Saxophone music for SOME occasions" and this band certainly qualifies!

Melvin is a very versatile musician who can play pretty much anything with a reed on it! A frequent presence in the pit orchestra at the Coastal Carolina Arts Center musicals, he didn’t have to be asked twice to play bari in a Tower of Power style band!

A Lowcountry resident since the early 1980s, Billy was the longtime trumpeter with local fixture band The Headliners, one of the area’s premier occasion bands for over three decades. He now performs regularly with Target Band and at Church of the Cross.

Mark has been playing guitar since age 11 and is a graduate of Indiana University. Mark moved to the Lowcountry in 2014 and has made a name for himself as a jazz guitarist, but secretly wanted to funk it up with a good horn band. In fact, his quote from his high school yearbook was James Brown’s “Sometimes I feel so nice I jump back and kiss myself.”