Photos
Hand-Picked Goodness
Animal Faces from a THJB gig benefiting the Columbus Zoo
The Toll House Building in Roscoe Village, Ohio
Toll House Jazz Band
"May Irwin's Money Song performed at the Heritage Country Club during the Charivari reception"
Our Host Band, Charivari
July 4th in a large beer tent in Gilching, Germany
Leaving For Germany on our first trip there!
A tour of the Salt Mines near Berchtesgaden, Germany
Toll House Jazz Band
Presenting Charivari Tour Shirts to the Charivari Jazz Band members
Toll House Jazz Band
American Legion - 1990
The Toll House Cookies: Ginny Wise, Dottie Moorhead, Joy Cunningham, Linda Evans
Early THJB with
Jim Masters (trombone), Pete Kerns (trumpet) and Don Seelbach (clarinet)
Toll House Jazz Band
With Dave Pfeiffer on Clarinet
The THJB "Travel Band" with Gordon Moore (trombone) and Dave Pfeiffer (clarinet)
West Shore Jazz Society
Muskegon, MI - 2002
Recording our first album, "First Batch"
at MusiCol Studios in Columbus, OH
THJB On Stage at the Gasthöf Böck
in Unterbrunn, Germany
Mike Evans
with our favorite tour bus driver, Horst Schilling
Reception party for the Charivari Jazz Band
"at Ginny Wise's cottage on Buckeye Lake"
Charivari at the Potomac River Jazz Club in Washington, DC
Linda Evans and Marilyn Stratmeyer
at the Dolomites
Performing at the outdoor concert venue
during the Dresden International Jazz Festival
The Toll House Jazz Band on stage
at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig
The travel gang visting St. Thomas Church in Leipzig
resting place of Johann Sebastian Bach
"The Canamger Jazz Band at Gasthöf Böck in Unterbrunn"
With John and Diana Skillman visiting our friends Günther and Charlotte Grosche in Berlin
Canamger on stage in Quedlinburg 2012
Fans in the jazz plaza Quedlinburg 2012
THJB at the Coon Sanders Festival in Huntington, WV 2001
The Battenberg Trio at Friendship Village 4th of July celebration 2004
View from Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria 2007
Hohenschwangau Castle as viewed from Neuschwanstein Castle 2007
Ulla Doering and Jim Armstrong
Melody Pott and Vittorio Sicbaldi 2007
The jazz ship Seeshaupt on Lake Starnberg 2007
The Amerian Queen Riverboat on the Mississippi 1995
Mike taking a bow after theater performance on the American Queen 1995
Part of the dining room on the American Queen
THJB at the Apple Butter Festival in Roscoe Village, OH
Canamger in the Biergarten at Utting, Germany 2007
THJB with Spiegle Willcox at the Bix Festival 1999
THJB at the Bix Festival 1999
THJB at the Bix Festival 1999
THJB at the Bix Festival 1999
THJB group at the Bix Festival 1999
THJB at the Bix Festival 1999
THJB at the Bix Festival with Spiegle Willcox 1999
THJB at the Bix Festival with Spiegle Willcox 1999
THJB at the Bix Festical 1999
The Canamger Jazz Band at Dresden 2007
The Canamger group in the Zwinger in Dresden 2007
Central City Colorado Jazz Festival August 1984
The Toll House Cookies at the American Legion 1991
Dottie Moorhead, Jean Hilkowski, and Ginny Wise
Ginny Wise, Joy Cunningham and Dottie Moorhead
Ginny Wise as Rose of Washington Square
Jean Hilkowski, Dottie Moorhead, Ginny Wise, Linda Evans, and Joy Cunningham
March 1994 Mardi Gras at Franklin Park in Columbus, OH
Mary Gallo, Ginny Wise and Dottie Moorhead 1993
Joy Cunningham, Jean Hilkowski and Ginny Wise, Washboard Festival, Logan, OH 2003
Dottie Moorhead, Ginny Wise and Joy Cunningham, Washboard Festival, Logan, OH 2004
Ginny Wise, Joy Cunningham and Dottie Moorhead, Washboard Festival, Logan, OH 2004
The THJB at the Coon Sanders Festival in Huntington, WV 1999
Dave Steele and Mike jamming
THJB at the Dresden Festival 2003
THJB on a parade float at the Dresden Festival 2003
Crowds along the parade route, Dresden Festival 2003
A singer from the U.S. joined our float in Dresden 2003
A street band from Russia near the Kulturpalast in Dresden 2003
Newspaper artical Dresden Festival 2003
Joachin, our band host in Dresden 2003, 2007
THJB jazz boat, Pirna,Dresden Festival 2003
THJB aboard the jazz boat Pirna, Dresden Festival 2003
Rich Burkart and Mike presenting a gift to Lutz Vogel, the Mayor for Culture, at Dresden 2003
Stage at the Kulturpalast, Dresden Festival 2003
THJB on Stage at the Kulturpalast, Dresden Festival 2003
THJB on Stage at the Kulturpalast, Dresden Festival 2003
Finale at the Kulturpalast, Dresden Festival 2003
Mike at a street venue, Dresden Festival 2003
THJB contingent outside the Gewandhaus in Leipzig 2003
Rich Burkart, Phil Stone and Mike with Gewandhaus poster in Leipzig 2003
THJB on Stage at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig 2003
THJB CDs on sale at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig 2003
THJB contingent at Saint Thomas church in Leipzig 2003
Outside the Saint Thomas church in Leipzig 2003
Jamming at the Jazz Club Cosmos in Leipzig 2003
New review of THJB performance at the Gewandhaus 2003
Harry Thurm (clarinet) and his band from Leipzig
A local band at Der Leerer Beutel Jazz Club in Regensburg
Jim Loeffler, a favorite THJB jazz fan, Dresden 2003
Metal facsimile of Gasthöf Böck on the May pole adjacent
A wild time with THJB on stage at Gasthöf Böck 2003
THJB on stage at Gasthöf Böck 2003
The Royal Bavarian Yacht Club where THJB and Charivari played
At the Victualien Markt in Munich. Gordon and Cindy Moore, Linda Evans, Joy Cunningham
Rich Burkart jamming with house band at the Hofbräuhaus in Munich
Farewell dinner on the river, Wurm, 2003
Christian and Ulla Döring, Katrin Möhle
A THJB publicity picture in Dresden 2003
Reception at the Gewandhaus sponsored by the U.S. Consolate 2003
Jazz riverboat for Canamger in Dresden 2007
Canamger travel group in Dresden 2007
Melody Pott, Linda Evans, Günther and Charlotte Grosche, and Marilyn Stratmeyer at the Blue Wonder Bridge in Dresden
Marilyn Stratmeyer,Linda and Mike Evans, Melody Pott, Charlotte and Günther Grosche, at the Frauen Kirche in Dresden
THJB on the Zoo stage in Dresden 2003
Audience at the Zoo stage in Dresden 2003
Mike in the Mark Twain Gallery of the American Queen 1995
Mike in the "Engine Room" of the American Queen with pianist Ann Stewart from Columbus, OH
THJB COHJS Fall Harvest w Jim Masters (bone) and Don Seelbach (clarinet)
Katrin Möhle and Ulla Döring welcome THJB to Bavaria 1997
Gerhard Rehmann (banjo) and Christoph Möhle provide a musical welcome to THJB 1997
The travel group to Germany 1997
The first out of town gig for THJB Early Jazz Club in Kent, OH June 26, 1994
Canamger people visiting the Fuggerei (subsidized housing area) in Augsburg 2004
Canamger people visiting the Fuggerei (subsidized housing area) in Augsburg 2007
Melody Pott sampling German beer and pretzle in a Biergarten near Gauting
Jamming with the Sunday Stompers Jazz Band in Berlin 2004
First performance of the Canamger Jazz Band at Gasthöf Böck in Unterbrunn
Mike Evans presenting friendship plaque from THJB to Charivai during Canamger performance 2004
The Canamger ladies: Vicki Armstrong, Diana Skillman, Linda Evans
Listening to Thomas Stelzer (piano) group in a village near Dresden 2004
Table mates at the Stelzer concert. Turns out they were avid THJB fans and got Mike's autograph!
Skillmans and Evans in Berlin 2004
Mike and John Skillman jamming at Grosche's home in Berlin 2004
The "Sunday Stompers" Jazz Band in Berlin
Mike and John jamming with the Sunday Stompers in Berlin
Evans, Skillmans, Grosches in Berlin
Canamger performing in the hotel courtyard in Magdeburg 2012
Jazz cruise boat on the Elbe river in Magdeburg 2012
Canamger jazz cruise on the Elbe in Magdeburg 2012
A Canamger gig in the Moritzbastei (underground cultural center) in Leipzig 2012
The Canamger women in Quedlinburg 2012
Volker Stiehler's Jetzt erst Recht Jazz Band at the Moritzbastei
Jam session at the Commerzbank in Leipzig 2012
Canamger and Charivari jamming
John Skillman and Gordon Moore jamming in the streets of Markt Schönberg 2012
Canamger on stage in Markt Schönberg 2012
Mike on stage in Markt Schönberg 2012
Canamger on stage at Seeresidenz Alte Post in Seeshaupt 2012
Gordon Moore whistling a tune on stage at Seeresidenz Alte Post in Seeshaupt 2012
Mike, Bill Carpenter, Bob Butters and Don Fulkerson do the "History of Jazz" program at the Ohio Historical Soc.1999
Ginny Barber welcomes Art and Carolyn Eckles to Ginny Wise's luau September 2001
Hula dancers at Ginny Wise's Luau, September 2001
Bob and Dottie Moorhead at Ginny Wise's luau, September 2001
All aboard for Ginny Wise's luau, September 2001
Jamming at Grosches house in Berlin, 2004
On the steps of the jazz club in Berlin 2004
The Canamger gang in Dresden 2007
Canamger on stage in Dresden 2007
Canamger clowning in Dresden 2007
Canamger clowning in Dresden 2007
Canamger parade float in Dresden 2007
Canamger gang meeting with the Assistant Mayor of Augsburg 2007
Vittorio Sicbaldi dazzled them all, young and old
The Lechtown Knee Oilers, host band in Augsburg
THJB at a city park in Columbus, OH July 2003
The Tom Battenberg Trio, New Albany, OH June 2003
La Mama restaurant jazz site in Vise, Belgium where the Classic Jazz Stompers played 1996
THJB at the Makoy Center September 1993
THJB with Jim Masters (bone) and Bob Gallagher (clarinet), May 1993
Rich Burkart recording "First Batch" March 1994
Recording "First Batch" March 12, 1994
Mike and Dave Steele at Shakey's 1977
Mike and Dave Steele, Marion, OH gig 2013
Christian Döring with some THJB people 2003
Mike and Jim Loeffler drinking to "Bruderschaft" 2003
Mike and John Skillman, Shakey's in Rockville, MD
The Buck Creek Jazz Band and gang at Eureka CA
The Buck Creek Jazz Band, Eureka, CA
American Queen Cape Girardeau, MO 1995
Huck Fin kids greet the American Queen at Hannibal, MO 1995
THJB New Year's 1993 at the Makoy Center
Mike and John Skillman jamming
A tour of Quedlinburg 2012
THJB July 4 1994, Columbus, OH
"Restaurant Row" in Dresden 2007
"Sternwheeler Festival Marietta, OH 1993
"Mike being interviewed by local television in Dresden 2003
"American Queen, Mississippi Queen and Delta Queen in St. Louis
"Host band from Murnau playing is Gasthöf zum Stern in Seehausen
"Central City Colorado 1984 to hear Buck Creek
"Pulver Turm restaurant in Dresden
"The "Fortune Cookies" with Wally Nichols
"Christian and Ulla Döring
"Christian Döring and Mike singing a duet
"Jam session with Rick Dickerson on cornet, Tom Sixt on piano and Wally Nichols & Jim Gary on trombone
"Rainy concert on the Scioto River in Columbus 1993
"Our drummer, Tom George, in a rare kazoo solo, New Year's Eve 1993
"Jim Masters singing and whistling "My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes." Ornithology was not our strong point
"THJB at the Columbus Arts Festival
"Gordon Moore, Mike, Tom George, and Don Fulkerson by the Old Toll House in Roscoe Village 1994
"THJB at the Lancaster Festival 1995 as featured in Ohio Magazine
"Processional at the Bix grave site in Davenport during the Bix Festival
"THJB at the Holiday Inn near the OSU campus
"The "Illegal Parkers" trio at Westerville Park 1996. Phil Stone, Mike and Steve Samuelson
"THJB at the Holiday Inn with Gordon Moore on trombone
"THJB at the German Space Agency in Oberpfaffenhofen 1999
"The oldest restaurant in Europe. A sausage house on the Danube in Regensburg. Marilyn Stratmeyer, Mary Thompson, Mike and Linda Evans
"Crusing on the Danube in Regensburg. Mike and Linda Evans with Marilyn Stratmeyer/h5>
"The Seeshaupt, our jazz cruise boat on Lake Starnberg
"The Hofbrähaus in Munich
"THJB in Brunico, Italy 1999
"THJB on stage in Brunico, Italy 1999
"Jazz fans Hans and Elizabeth Przybilka at Hotel Corso in Brunico 1999
"THJB in front of the Hotel Corso in Brunico 1999
"Recording a jazz radio show at WVXU in Cincinnati with Charlie Carey as the host
"Charlie Carey, host of WVXU Jazz in Cincinnati
"Mike recording "Munchin" in 2000
"Joe Lord recording "Munchin" in 2000
"Larry Nusser recording "Munchin" in 2000
"Phil Stone recording "Munchin" in 2000
"Tom George recording "Munchin" in 2000
"Rich Burkart recording "Munchin" in 2000
"Don Fulkerson recording "Munchin" in 2000
"THJB at West Shore Jazz Club Muskegon, MI 2000
"Trio of Mike, Don Fulkerson and Joe Lord at a store opening 2000
"Mike and Phil Stone sing a duet
"Christmas at the Holiday Inn
John Skillman and band at Shakey's in Rockville, MD
Roy Custer and Mike rehearsing some Shakey's tunes
Roy Custer and Mike accompany a kissing contest at Shakey's on the OSU campus/h5>
Dave Steele and Mike with Jack,the singing bartender, at Shakey's in Columbus
Dave Steele and Mike at Shakey's in Columbus
Dave Steele and Mike at Shakey's in Columbus
Dave and Carol Steele with Mike at Shakey's in Columbus
Mike with Dale Fratianne (drums) and Mike Martin at OSU after a football game
The Sounds of Dixie Jazz Band, Andre Keller (trumpet) leader
The "Illegal Parkers" trio: Mike, Dave Weltner and Steve Samuelson
THJB with Jim Masters (bone) and Don Seelbach (clarinet)
The "Illegal Parkers" trio: Mike, Dave Weltner and Steve Samuelson
The Charivari Jazz Band, Munich
Christian Döring presents an honorary membership in Charivari to Mike 1998
The Charivari Jazz Band at the Hilliard Country Club 1998
Mike and Gerhard Rehmann jamming at the Buckeye Lake Country Club 1998
The old toll house on the Ohio Canal
Mike with the Classic Jazz Stompers in Vise, Belgium 1996
Mike with the Classic Jazz Stompers in Vise, Belgium 1996
Volker Stiehler at Jazz Club Cosmos in Leipzig
THJB at the Washboard Festival in Logan, OH 2003
Roy Custer and Mike with Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes at Shakey's on the OSU campus
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