Albatross Clarinet Quartet at Chez Hanny

Dave Tidball (Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, composer) was born and raised in Wales. Relocating to London after high school, he played with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra before joining British jazz fusion pioneers “Turning Point”.
In 1979, he came to the US and was active on the jazz scene in Boston before heading west in 1985. In the early 90s he formed “Threedom” with Bill Douglass and Robert Kaufman, and spent 5 years in Paula West’s band. More recently, he can be heard with FivePlay Jazz Quintet, and Ian Dogole’s projects, including a 2013 recording with Paul McCandless, Frank Martin and Fred Randolph....

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Dave Tidball (Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, composer) was born and raised in Wales. Relocating to London after high school, he played with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra before joining British jazz fusion pioneers “Turning Point”.
In 1979, he came to the US and was active on the jazz scene in Boston before heading west in 1985. In the early 90s he formed “Threedom” with Bill Douglass and Robert Kaufman, and spent 5 years in Paula West’s band. More recently, he can be heard with FivePlay Jazz Quintet, and Ian Dogole’s projects, including a 2013 recording with Paul McCandless, Frank Martin and Fred Randolph.

Charlie Keagle (clarinet, bass Clarinet. Decidedly peripatetic musical experience in many musical styles: Shelley Manne, Howard Roberts, Geoff Muldaur, The Band, Full Faith and Credit, Hairy Brouhaha, Swing Fever, Billy Philadelphia, Norm Durkee, Larry Dunlap, Jim and Morning Nichols.

Dick Mathias is a freelance woodwind doubler (clarinets, flutes, saxophones, recorders) working with a wide range of Bay Area theater pit orchestras, jazz groups, classical chamber ensembles, and the occasional orchestra gig.
His musical outlook is an amalgamation of interests and influences: jazz, classical, the avant-garde...

Jim Dukey played 38 Seasons with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, on clarinet, bass clarinet and saxophones.

Other groups include The SF Symphony and Opera.

On saxophone, Jim played for years in the Monday Night Big Band at the Great American Music Hall, The Reunion, and Pearl's. The Venetian Room at the Fairmont featured many great singers, the last of the supper club gigs in SF. Jim worked with Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams, George Shearing, The Modern Jazz Quartet, among many others in the house band.

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