Charles
"Chuck" Chinn ~ Director
Jim
Gardiner ~ Composer-in-Residence
Woodwinds
Clarence
Cal
Peter
Collins
Kenny
"Kenny G" Gorelick
Dean
Mochizuki
Lindsay
Sakuma
Brass
Robert
Damper
Russ
Johnson
Dean
Lum
Donnie
Mar
Phillip
Masters
Jim
Rasmussen
Harold
Taniguchi
Rhythm
Section
Danny
Benson
David
Jackson
Tam
Sieverson
Nancy
Takenaga
Lee
Turner
David
Yamasaki
Others
Mike
Mori
Leon
Berman
I attended Franklin High School from 1972-75 and played in the “Jazz Lab” band. Over a three to four year period the band won several regional jazz competitions as well as the overall grand prize at the National Jazz Festival in Reno 3 years in a row. There were several talented musicians that came through Franklin at that time, and who went on to make careers in the music industry, the most famous being Kenny G.Dan Benson, February 2009
Leon Berman is a Hall of Fame Rockabilly DJ at KEXP.
Dan Benson, September 2009