{"content":[{"text":"Meet the Havin’ Fun Band","bbox":{"left":0.192386,"top":0.090849,"width":0.615157,"height":0.029467000000000007}},{"text":"The Havin’Fun Band is comprised of \n eleven pieces: three saxes, two \n trombones, three trumpets, piano, bass, \n and drums. Ruth Elliot who plays piano \n and sings, (at the age of 97!) occasionally \n joins the band and is a crowd favorite.","bbox":{"left":0.517337,"top":0.158005,"width":0.35281399999999996,"height":0.11235699999999998}},{"text":"In addition to the Elks Lodge, we've \n played at the Beatitudes for their \n Valentine’s Day Ball, as well as Veterans \n Day. We've also played at two K through \n 8 elementary schools in the Catholic Archdiocese. These are two inner city schools and \n we were asked to introduce big band music to a largely Latino group of students. The \n kids were great and we'll be doing more of this next school year.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.289823,"width":0.7567100000000001,"height":0.131183}},{"text":"Tom Williams – Co-leader - Trumpet","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.458497,"width":0.324693,"height":0.018266000000000004}},{"text":"Tom began playing the trumpet in the fourth grade, and studied \n privately with a Julliard graduate through high school. He started \n playing in his high school band as a sixth grader and continued \n playing while in the U.S. Navy, playing in the ship's band, (USS \n Ticonderoga), and serving as the ship's bugler.","bbox":{"left":0.291797,"top":0.496073,"width":0.571442,"height":0.09359400000000007}},{"text":"After the Navy, Tom finished college and grad school with an MBA and began a career \n in banking as a commercial loan officer in New Jersey and moved to Arizona in 1982, \n working at several different banks, and started playing the trumpet again. Tom played \n in the Salt River Brass for eleven years, local community college bands, and was \n principal trumpet of Arizona Winds for many years.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.608977,"width":0.753994,"height":0.09372100000000005}},{"text":"Tom has played in many big bands around the valley, including Jack Merlin, Ruth \n Elliot, and the Ron Carrow Big Band. When Ron died about six years ago, Tom took \n over the leadership of that band, which plays every Monday at the Professional \n Musicians Union Hall.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.722008,"width":0.726481,"height":0.07481899999999997}},{"text":"Tom bought a landscaping business 22 years ago, which he operates with my wife of 30 \n years, Sherry. They have two daughters living in N. Carolina, and our oldest, a sax, \n trumpet, and guitar player, is getting married there this June. Tom’s Monday band just \n recorded several songs she'll be using at her wedding, and she played sax on them!","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.816136,"width":0.757919,"height":0.07477600000000006}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.117647,"top":0.157917,"width":0.387173,"height":0.194129},{"left":0.117647,"top":0.499091,"width":0.15817,"height":0.078535}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.117647,"top":0.157917,"width":0.387173,"height":0.194129},{"left":0.117647,"top":0.499091,"width":0.15817,"height":0.078535}]}