Daryl is a retired satellite engineer, and a consummate technician on the keyboard.

As a youngster, Daryl was fascinated by a very large collection of antique Nickelodeons at Sutro's Baths on the beach in San Francisco. These fabulous machines could mechanically play anything from Bach to Jazz - some terrible stuff and some really good stuff - and all for 25 cents.

The Ragtime Jazz churned out here apparently had a significant impact on Daryl's young impressionable mind and he spent many hours feeding in quarters to watch the wheels turn and listen to the Jazz.

Later on, Daryl was sent to a ritual piano teacher, who just didn't dig the Jazz at Sutros, but he did teach Daryl how to play piano. By the age of 12 Daryl was driving his parents nuts with his endless playing of Scott Joplin's piano rags. He also frequented antique stores buying old 78 records to feed his growing addiction.

In high school Daryl discovered Dixieland Jazz, particularly the Firehouse Five and the San Francisco Style bands including Lu Watters and Turk Murphy. His attempts to a Dixieland Band at school came to naught though, as the other high school students were much more interested in the new sounds of Rock and Roll in the 1950s era.

In college Daryl majored in electronics engineering, but in his leisure time there found an organization known as a 'Greek Social Fraternity' which had numerous music majors who were also interested in playing Dixieland Jazz. The Jazz flowed forth through the frat house nightly and on week-ends the group would travel north to Turk Murphy's 'Earthquake McGoon's' to learn from the pros.

After college life, Daryl went off to set the world on fire as an Aerospace engineer but it didn't take long to find and join a working Dixieland Jazz band - the South Bay 7, and Daryl played piano with this group for over 25 years!

Eventually Daryl joined up with the Cell Block 7 Jazz Band and is now known as the band nerd, as besides playing great piano he keeps the band supplied with pencils from his pocket protector and provides techno geek guidance on stuff like running audio recorders.

Daryl presently lives in the mountains outside Santa Cruz CA (a true artist's colony) with his wife, daughter, grandson and son. Son is a software engineer who also carries pencils in his pocket protector and composes 'techno-music' (terrible stuff says Daryl).