Paul "Pazzo" Mehling: Paul Mehling, the leader of HCSF, has been dubbed the godfather of American Gypsy jazz. He discovered the music of Django Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in grammar school, and decades later the music that took root in his young soul finally bore fruit.

Evan “Zeppo” Price: As a young competitive fiddler, he won his share of awards, having been named the U.S. Scottish Fiddling Champion, Canadian Junior Fiddle Champion, and Canadian Novelty Fiddling Champion. He also performed with some of the masters of fiddle lore—Stephane Grappelli, Johnny Frigo, Claude “Fiddler” Williams, Johnny Gimble, Buddy Spicher, and Vassar Clements—as well as a diverse array of pop icons from Stevie Wonder and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and Robert Plant to comedian, Steven Wright.

Jordan Samuels: An accomplished guitarist who has been studying, performing, and teaching throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for the last twenty years. While at San Francisco State University, he completed his formal training in music composition under the guidance of Ronald Caltabiano and Richard Festinger while simultaneously pursuing a jazz studies curriculum directed by Andrew Speight and John Calloway.

Nelsen Hutchison: A San Francisco Bay Area based guitarist, educator, and scholar. Working to immerse himself in the jazz tradition, he encountered and fell in love with the music of Django Reinhardt through watching the Hot Club of San Francisco perform and listening to their records. Though he largely continued to focus on learning and performing “straight-ahead jazz,” the spark of his interest in hot jazz and Django had been ignited.

Dexter Williams: An upright bass player living in San Francisco, California whose style is heavily informed by traditional jazz, swing, gypsy jazz, and bebop. He was immersed in the world of jazz from an early age, and took on upright bass in high school band. Shortly after developed a love for jazz, starting to play his first professional gigs at age 16. Since then, he has dedicated his time to broadening his understanding of different styles of jazz, working on rhythmically and harmonically supporting a band, and all the while dialing in his technical ability on the upright bass.