Jubilee Hot 7 - Members

Molly Kaufmann has been an entertainer for over 33 years. Her specialties include ragtime and barrel-house piano as well as singing ragtime, comedy and blues. She has performed at many ragtime festivals across the United State and Canada.
In 1991 she entertained steam boaters on the famous riverboats "Delta Queen" and "Mississippi Queen." Molly has performed throughout the country - from mountain resorts to Broadway, where she played for Eubie Blake's 100th birthday party. She even brought ragtime to the Gold Coast of Australia as a star of the "American Ragtime Ensemble." www.mollykaufmann.com


Mike Evans is a native of Colorado and he has performed with such notable musicians as Doc Severenson, Cat Anderson (Duke Ellington's lead trumpet player) and Lou Marini (of Blood Sweat and Tears). He enjoys playing in the Jubilee Hot 7 because it allows him to be creative and to have fun with a quality group of musicians.

Larry Naylor began has his music profession at a young age He has been a woodwind specialist for over 51 years. As an Air Force Bandsman, during the Viet Nam era, he realized that music was his life. He served in Air Force bands in Washington State, Hawaii, and Massachusetts.
Earning a B.A. in music and a M.M. in woodwind pedagogy, he has taught instrument repair classes, workshops for band directors, and applied woodwinds at the University of Colorado at Boulder as well as the Lamont School of Music, VanderCook College, and the University of Colorado at Denver.
He currently owns Naylor’s Custom Wind Repair in Centennial, Colorado and is a Master Clinician for his repair society, the National Association of Professional Band Instrument Repair Technicians - NAPBIRT.

Joe Roller has performed with such notable groups as the Hannibal (Missouri) High School Marching Band and Alone in the Basement. As a long time musician Joe was one of the founding members of Denver's own The Boomtown Stompers. His vocalizations are a perfect example of the Traditional Jazz school of comedic singing, which means that you don't have to be able to sing to sing, as long you appear to be having a good time while doing it. Among his influences on the sliding horn have been Turk Murphy, Ward Kimball and Peter Diller. Please don't make fun of Joe's silly aspiration, which is to play with the Boston Philharmonic, should they fall on very hard times.

John Mumford began playing the five string banjo during the folk music era inspired by Pete Seeger and The Kingston Trio. After college he studied under Dick Weissman from the group "The Journeyman" and after being introduced to the four string banjo, while working at "Your Father's Mustache," he studied plectrum banjo with "Buck Kelly."
John has been a featured player for various groups in addition to performing at different venues such as Shakey's, The Hungry Farmer as well as performing in numerous musical stage productions. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Music with an emphasis in Music Performance from the University of Colorado - Denver using the plectrum banjo. John is also the publisher of Jazz Banjo Magazine

Joe Walsh began playing tuba at age 13 and comes from a musical family. He is a Colorado native and grew up in Conifer. He attended the University of Denver, Lamont School of Music and received his BM and MM in music performance and studied with Kathy Brantigan of the Denver Brass and Warren Deck retired tubist of the New York Philharmonic. Joe enjoys playing in many different types of ensembles from symphony orchestras to traditional Dixieland bands.

Dick Kloehn began playing drums in 2nd grade after receiving a snare drum for his birthday. He led a Dixieland band in junior high school and in high school. The junior high school band leader was impressed with Dick's abiities that he composed a drum concerto especially for him. In college, to supplement his income, Dick played in a more modern group as well as in a big band.
He came to Denver in 1970 to set up his dental practice, and shortly after that began playing drums again. Dick played briefly in a modern jazz quartet, but has mainly played traditional jazz in the Denver area for the past 30 years.