2010 Clinicians

Jim Douglas (drums)
Jim Douglas is equally comfortable as drummer for a 17-piece jazz band swinging to big band charts or a combo playing detailed and difficult arrangements. He is also a prolific soloist. Douglas has accompanied numerous internationally performing musicians including: saxophonists Richie Cole, Pete Christlieb, Bill Ramsey, Karolina Strassmayer, Bill Liston and Dick Oatts; trombonists Andy Martin and Michael Davis; trumpeters Jim Rotondi, Mike Vax and Bobby Shew; pianists Kenny Drew, Jr. and Michael Weiss and singers Cami Thompson and Shirley Andress. At age 14, Douglas began playing professionally with his father, Harry Douglas, a well-known northwest jazz organist/pianist. After Douglas retired from his management position with the City of Springfield , he renewed his musical interests by conducting clinics, teaching drums and performing.

Douglas is the drummer and manager of Swing Shift, a 17-piece jazz orchestra. He is the drummer in Group Therapy Jazz Quintet and the J. Schlotterbeck Quartet.

John Gronberg (trumpet)
John has played trumpet professionally for 35 years. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Nevada and played in the Reno/Tahoe Orchestras and the Reno Symphony. Some of the stars that John has played with include: Tony Bennett, Cher, Ann Margaret, Sammy Davis, Jr., The Legends of Rock and Roll, and many more. John has also toured extensively with various shows and traveled throughout North and South America, as well as Europe,

John returned to school in 2005 and earned his Master's degree in Jazz Studies from Washington State University. He played with Dr. Greg Yasinitsky's jazz group "Crosscurrent" for two years and earned numerous awards for performance and composition while at WSU. Currently John is a full-time music teacher in Southern Oregon.

John Moak (trombone)
John Moak has performed with many notable artists including Dave Brubeck, Clark Terry, Louie Bellson, Pete Christlieb, Nat Adderly, Randy Brecker, Diane Schuur, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Slide Hampton, Doc Severinsen, Jack Sheldon, Rosemary Clooney, James Moody, John Faddis, Byron Stripling and Ken Peplowski. He has performed as a member of the Louie Bellson Orchestra and Octet, the Clark Terry Quintet, the orchestras of Ray Anthony, Jimmy Dorsey, Les and Larry Elgart, Frankie Vali, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Mathis, the Temptations and the Four Tops. John is a winner of the International Trombone Association's Frank Rosolino and Kai Winding Jazz Competitions, the Southern Comfort National Dixieland Championship and a finalist in the Congnac-Hennessey Jazz Search.

John Moak was born and raised in Oklahoma. He was a featured soloist with his outstanding high school band that shared concert stages with the Count Basie Orchestra and the Buddy Rich Band. While attending college he spent much time working in studios recording commercial jingles and albums while he developed his jazz playing in local ensembles. After receiving a BS in Physics from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1987, John relocated to Jacksonville, Florida where he taught jazz trombone at the University of North Florida. After turning down touring opportunities with both the Woody Herman and Maynard Ferguson Bands he returned to Oklahoma where he led his own orchestra and was a prominent jazz artist, college teacher, clinician and studio player. Since 2006, John resides in Portland, Oregon where he performs with the Portland Jazz Orchestra, Gino Vannelli, PDXV, The Bridgetown Sextet, Dan Shulte's Strange Pilgrims, and his own groups .

Matt Treder (piano/keyboards)
Matt is an accomplished jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and producer. He played on and co-produced singer/songwriter Halie Loren's "They Oughta Write a Song," winner of the JPF 2009 Vocal Jazz Album of the Year, and performs regularly with the Deb Cleveland Band (voted 2008's best blues vocalist by Eugene Weekly readers) and The Essentials (2009 Register-Guard readers' choice for Best Band).

At home in almost any musical milieu, Matt has toured in country bands, co-founded Eugene rock band ToneDawg, composed music for video games, and played with Satin Love Orchestra, the Emerald City Jazz Kings, Don Latarski, Paul Biondi, Amy Clawson, the Inspirational Sounds, and the University of Oregon jazz, vocal jazz and gospel ensembles. He teaches at the John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts.

Olem Alves (guitar)
Olem began playing guitar and singing as a young child at the early age of 10. His mentor and teacher at the time was a guitarist by the name of James Thornbury (James T), a local blues legend who later fronted the blues group Canned Heat. Olem subsequently attended the University of Oregon where he studied classical theory and jazz.

Among the artists that Olem has performed as an opening act for are: Canned Heat, The Commitments, Paul Delay, Linda Hornbuckle, Shelly James, Rubberneck, and famed blues guitarist Duke Robillard.

Sean Flannery (saxophone)
Sean Flannery has been a performer and educator in the Eugene area for 17 years. He has toured extensively as a member of the rock/swing group - Cherry Poppin' Daddies; played as a sideman for the salsa band Caliente; the Disco revival outfit - Satin Love Orchestra; Soul/R&B group - The Essentials; spot-on Pink Floyd revival band -The Floydian Slips; and local big bands - The Emerald City Jazz Kings and Swing Shift.

Sean has played with contemporary jazz artists, such as Dick Oatts, Rich Perry, and Michael Weiss of the Village Vanguard Orchestra, and trumpeters Ron Miles and Paul Mazzio. He is currently a master's candidate in jazz performance under the guidance of Steve Owen at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance. Sean's straight-ahead jazz recording entitled 4, 3, 2, Go! is set for release later this year.

Tyler Abbott (bass)
Tyler Abbott, classical and jazz bass instructor at the University of Oregon, has performed with some of the finest jazz players in the country, including Randy Porter, Tom Grant, Nancy King, George Mitchell, Arnie Caruthers, Gary Hobbs, John Stowell, David Glenn, Grammy-award winner Howard Levy, Warren Rand, Ron Miles, Dave Pietro, Scott Wendholt, Ryan Keberle, and many others. He has also served as bassist with the Toby Koenigsberg Trio and the Lily Wilde Jumpin' Jubilee Orchestra.

William (Bill) Hulings (vocal)
Professional actor/singer/dancer Bill Hulings currently lives in Eugene. His theatre credits here in Oregon include Curly in Oklahoma!, Lt. Cable in South Pacific, Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, and many others with the Oregon Festival of American Music. Bill was seen with the Willamette Repertory Theatre in such roles as Feste (Twelvth Night ), Bill (the Complete Works of Shakespeare Abriged), Charles (Blythe Spirit), All in the Timing and more. He is also a regular vocalist with the Emerald City Jazz Kings, as well as a guest artist with the Eugene Concert Choir, and the Eugene Symphony.
Other credits around the U.S. include: Prometheus in Prometheus Bound at the Studio Theatre of Washington D.C.; Mobray, Salisbury, and Exton in Richard II, and Ferdinand in The Tempest at The Shakespeare Theatre of D.C.; Orlando in As You Like It at the Seattle Rep. and Arizona Theatre Co.; at Shakespeare Santa Cruz Bill played Sergius in "Arms and the Man"; Paris, in "Romeo and Juliet"; Cassio in "Othello"; and Don John in "Much Ado About Nothing."; other national theatres include the GEVA Theatre; The Acting Co.; and the Guthrie Theatre. Bill is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors and has taught and choreographed stage combat in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada. You can see Bill this spring in the Eugene Concert Choir's British Invasion concert, and as Fred in OFAM's Kiss Me Kate.