Steve Taddeo fell in love with Gene Krupa when his Uncle gave him an old Columbia LP of Benny Goodman’s 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert. He is a self-taught drummer, and played throughout his Watertown High School years, also in a teen-aged band Little Sid & Company, formed by Sid Barbatos.  In the early 70’s he played at Betty’s Rolls Royce with Craig Ball and Paul Monat. Buzzy Drootin sometimes let him sit in. They also played at the Scotch & Sirloin.
1978-83 he had his own Steve Taddeo’s Big Band.  He also formed the Swing Senders in 1978; his first trumpet player was Paul Monat.  He’s played with Craig Ball, Dave Whitney, Lee Childs and Lucinda Ellert, and with the Ray Leach Orchestra.

He joined the Dick Donovan Big Band in 1992.  In 2004, Dick retired to New Hampshire, and Steve took over the band, retaining the name.  Daytime he works with the Forestry Division of the City of Waltham.  Nighttime and weekends he keeps busy with both the Swing Senders and The Dick Donovan Band, directed by Steve Taddeo, the Seacoast Stompers, and substitutes with many other local bands.

George Masso was born in Cranston, Rhode Island, is an virtuostic jazz trombonist, bandleader, vibraphonist and composer specializing in Swing and Dixieland.  An excellent trombonist who recorded for Arbors, George has had a long if somewhat underrated career. Other than some early gigs (including a 1948 association with Jimmy Dorsey, Masso made his living from teaching in schools up until 1973.

However, he always played trombone on the side and, soon after becoming a full-time musician, he toured with the Benny Goodman Sextet. (1973). Masso worked with Bobby Hackett, Bobby Rosengarden, and the World's Greatest Jazz Band (the latter starting in 1975) and recorded with Scott Hamilton, Warren Vache and Woody Herman. He led sessions for Famous Door, World Jazz, and Dreamstreet during 1978-1983, frequently sharing the front line with tenor saxophonist Al Klink and trumpeter Glenn Zattola. 

Paul Monat originally started on tuba and string bass, and sat in with members of the Coon Sanders Nighhawks Club in Wethersfield CT. He was introduced to Gene Krupa and Wild Bill Davison from the original Condon Mob by Frank Laidlaw.  He started playing cornet. 

He picked up ‘West Coast Jazz’ when he met Bob Connors of the Yankee Rhythm Kings, where he played harmony cornet/trumpet with Dave Whitney from 1974-1981. He played the Sacramento Jazz Festival from ’77 to ’82, and with the Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band at the Japan Kobe Festival in 1982. He’s played with Terry Waldo, the New Black Eagle Jazz Band, and many other local bands.

John Clark was born in Natick, MA.  He attended Connecticut College in New London, and quickly absorbed its vast Collection on Traditional Jazz.  He’s played professionally with various Dixieland and Big Bands including Ross Tucker’s Hot Cat Jazz Band, The Back Bay Ramblers, Dixieland Strutters,  Legacy Jazz Band, Commonwealth Jazz, New Black Eagle Jazz Band and the Paramount Jazz Band of Boston, with which he toured England and Wales in June 1995.

He regularly appears with many local bands, including the Mood Elevators, Dave Whitney Orchestra, and Monte Carlo Jazz Ensemble.  He formed The Wolverine Jazz Band in 1995, which has played at local venues, the Hot Steamed and Great Connecticut Traditional Jazz Festivals, as well as Bar Harbor Summer Festival, Jazz in the Olympics, The America’s Dixieland Jazz Festival, and Suncoast Dixieland Jazz Classic.

Craig Ball is a swing clarinet player and leader of the White Heat Swing Orchestra. He recorded the sound track for the Warner Brother’s film Dick Tracy. Ball has played in concert with Cab Calloway, Joel Gray and Lou Rawls. His White Heat Swing Orchestra played at the Roxy in Boston over a four year period and has recently had its own "Dancing Under the Stars" series for the last three summers at the Boston Harbor Hotel.  WHSO has backed up Tony Bennett and Norah Jones at Lincoln Center, recorded for Warner Brothers and Walt Disney, and won Boston Magazine's 'Best Dance Band' Best of Boston Award.

Justin Meyer Double Bass, has a BA in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Additional coursework, Berklee College of Music. Studies with John Lockwood, Dave Clark, Oscar Stegnaro. He has made many appearances with Steve Taddeo and his Swing Senders.

Scott Philbrick played Boston hotels as a teenager (where he met Bobby Hackett) and clubs including the infamous “Lenny’s on the Turnpike”.  He started a 30-year stint in TV production at age 19 on the Dave Garroway Show and appeared many times playing trumpet with the likes of Arthur Fiedler and B. B. King.  Although the horn was his main focus, he found the guitar more ‘relaxing’. He has played in at least 20 states, Canada and Bermuda, and at many Festivals: The Great Connecticut, Hot Steamed Jazz, Down East, Sacramento, San Diego, New York, Bar Harbor, Boothbay Harbor and 100's of concerts. 

Frank Stadler started playing as a freshman at Melrose High School, and played enough gigs to cover much of the tuition at Northeastern University. One of his favorite memories is tuning pianos for Victor Borge and his musical sidekick Leonid Hambro at Thule Air Base in 1965. He had never tuned a piano before, but he did his best with an old Conn spinning-disc tuning device, and a lot of guessing and a sleepless night. Victor said he did “pretty well for a beginner”.