Jazz Workshop

“Doctor Derek” is respected as a musician (alto and tenor saxophones plus vocals), a blues aficionado, a clinical psychologist, as well as a KVMR broadcaster. As a musician, Derek has had a chance to play with some heavies including Lowell Fulson, Sonny Rhodes, and Johnny Hearstsman. “My interest in the blues dates back to early […]

Karl has been a working musician off and on since he was 16 years of age. Originally a trombonist he added 5 string banjo and then electric bass soon after high school. After several tours of Canada with a rock band he took up jazz studies at Laney College in Oakland, switching to acoustic bass […]

I was once a High School teacher of Latin, a time best forgotten, and a university professor, also best forgotten, before becoming a training manager for Bank of America in the UK and San Francisco for more years than I intended. My wife Jeanne and I moved to Grass Valley in 2002, hopefully a final […]

Nora Nausbaum’s lifelong music passion was fostered by her father and flute lessons early on. She plays flute professionally, mostly jazz at this point. Nora grew up in New York, got music degrees and taught music in colleges in the heartland before coming to California. She and her husband, Bill Douglass, run Sierra Jazz Society […]