Musicians who currently play with Karl

Roy Kaufmann

Roy was fascinated by the drummer working with his pianist father and started playing drums in 4th grade at the age of nine. He played in various concert, marching, dance and jazz bands while in school and college in upstate N. Y. Because of the prominent Polish population in the upstate area, he became familiar with their ethnic dance music.

While an army musician in the U.S. Military Academy Band he studied rudimental drumming and as a member of the National Association of Rudimental Drummers. He studied jazz drumming with Charles Perry in NYC and more recently with Scott Morris in Redwood City, CA.

Roy has worked with such notables as Alan King, the Ink Spots, Art Van Damme, Dave Pell, Carl Saunders and various local bands, musicians, and vocalists. He has performed at the San Jose Jazz Festival with his jazz quartet "DeJazz Vu" and the "Octobop" jazz octet. In addition, he has been the house drummer for shows at the Palo Alto Children's Theater since 1999 and demonstrates drumming yearly for his wife's elementary school music and art classes.

Recordings include a college Dixieland Band album and Octobop's 3rd and latest CD, "After Dark". In October you can often find him in lederhosen playing Oktoberfests, and throughout the year playing for European-influenced dancing with the Swiss accordionist Karl Lebherz.

Bob Johnson

Bob plays saxophones and tuba with Karl. He is one of Karl's long-time musicians, having played with Karl for fifteen years.

Bob's professional music experience includes classical, jazz, and USAF Europe Band.

He also works as a sound engineer specializing in classical music recording for many well-known orchestras and choral groups in the Bay Area.

David Kawamoto

Dave Kawamoto is from Honolulu, where he started playing clarinet and saxophone in school and college marching bands, dance bands and in the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. After a 20-year musical hiatus from music while flying for the USAF and as an airline pilot, he resumed music, doing big band, jazz, Dixieland and salsa.