Band Member Bios
Judith Steinmeyer
Judith started her career in 1981 as a violinist in the United States Air Force Band in Washington, D.C. Since leaving the Air Force in 1985, she has performed with such artists a Frank Sinatra, Luciano Pavarotti, Stevie Wonder, and on several occasions served as concertmaster for Ray Charles, Tony Bennett, and Smokey Robinson. Judy has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Vatican, the Bolshoi Theater, the Kennedy Center, and in over ten Pacific and European countries. She has appeared as soloist with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra is a voting member for the Grammy Awards and has backed up hundreds of entertainers on television productions honoring Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and G.W. Bush. Judy now lives in Jacksonville, Florida and has her own entertainment business.
Landon Walker
Landon is a versatile performer, composer/arranger, teacher, and former singing waiter. He plays string bass and tuba, whistles and flutes in a wide variety of styles, including Dixieland and straight-ahead jazz, Irish/Celtic, chamber music and opera. He has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Mose Allison, Marian McPartland and Doc Severinson, to name just a few. He is on the faculty at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, and also teaches the ancient science of yoga. For two decades he was Program Director at Jacksonville’s public radio station where he produced programs on jazz, blues, bluegrass, renaissance and world music, and a popular afternoon-drive magazine of the arts called the Metro. He has received the city’s highest awards for his contributions to the arts and to the community.
Tim Hunt
A self described novice guitar enthusiast, Tim classifies his musical taste as one with no boundaries. His jazz influences include Louis Armstrong, Eddie Lang, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Miles Davis and Wes Montgomery. After serving in the Marines for 4 years, Tim attended the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Pursuing an advanced degree in Mathematics, Tim and his family moved to California where he attended graduate school. He is currently employed with JEA and resides in Orange Park with his wife and 2 children. Tim has studied Gypsy Jazz for 2 years under Ken Calhoun.
Ken Calhoun
Rhythm guitarist, Ken Calhoun, has been influenced and inspired by legendary jazz guitarists Eddie Lang, Django Reinhardt, Karl Kress, Bucky Pizzarelli, and Marty Grosz, and like most of them, he started out playing jazz banjo, before becoming a jazz guitar player. Ken is equally at home playing Freddie Green style in a big band, comping for a vocalist or horn player in a combo, or providing the driving, fiery rhythm in a gypsy jazz band. He has worked as a strolling musician, played guitar/banjo in the productions of more than 30 Broadway Musicals, and has performed at jazz festivals from Florida to California. Ken is familiar with a vast repertoire of tunes from the 20's to the 50's, and is also known as a teacher, a composer and, on occasion, a vocalist. He plays a custom-made 5-string plectrum guitar built by Bernie Lehmann of Rochester, N.Y. The guitar is tuned FCGBD, which is plectrum banjo tuning with the addition of a low F.
