Golden Ears Jazz Band member Dan Rohl

Golden Ears Jazz Band member:

Dan Rohl

Dan plays tenor sax for Golden Ears Jazz Band, but he also plays alto and bari sax long with clarinet, bass clarinet and contra bass clarinet (a personal favourite!). Dan played band in school in Kelowna, highlighted by playing solo bass clarinet in a local theatre production and garnering a Louis Armstrong Jazz Award in 1979 for his stage band tenor sax efforts. He met and married Judy (another personal favourite!) and endured the same band hiatus until 2001 where ACAP Band, CAP Jazz and the Maple Ridge Concert Band rejuvenated the musician in him. While the tenor sax is his mainstay jazz band instrument the opportunity to play bass clarinet in MRCB could not be resisted, nor the following contra bass clarinet (love it!) opportunity that led to his MusicFest Canada Honour Award in 2005. He has absorbed his wife's love of community band involvement and also plays with the Band of the Royal Westminster Regiment, the Vancouver Travelling Band and whenever possible with the British Columbia Regiment Band, Maple Ridge Concert Band and Maple Ridge Jazz Band.

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