Larry Searles (Trumpet and Flugel Horn)

Larry grew up on the shores of Lake Sammamish in Washington State, graduating from Issaquah High School in 1970.  Larry worked his way through school playing trumpet in a five piece swing band called the "Associated Sounds" which stayed together for 23 years. The "Associated Sounds" has become the Easy Street Band and has grown into a 9-peice swing band with an outstanding female vocalist.

Larry graduated from Seattle Central College with an AA degree in Dental Technology in 1972. He began working for three dentists in Issaquah in 1971, from which Issaquah Dental Lab was born. Immediately after graduation in 1972 he began a tradition of countless technical continuing education programs and added many leadership and business courses along the way.

He served four years on the board for the Washington State Dental Lab Association. Larry partnered with George and other lab professionals, working on the development of  the outcome skill standards for the dental lab profession. In July 1995 Larry merged Issaquah Dental Lab with Englund Dental Lab. Four years after that they moved to their current facility and fulfilled their dream of opening the Northwest Dental Forum--their long-awaited educational facility. Larry has returned to the shores of Lake Sammamish with his wife, Elise. His past hobbies have included hang-gliding, ultralights, motocross, snow and water skiing, windsurfing, boating, fishing. Today its aerobatics, receiving his private pilot's license in 1979, glider rating in 1980 and float plane rating in 1997. Most recently he completed aerobatic flight training in June 2000 and currently flies aerobatics in a Great Lakes open-cockpit bi-plane. He is currently serving on the King County Donated Dental Services Advisory Task Force.

Doug Polcuch (Baritone and Alto Sax)

Doug played clarinet, tenor and baritone sax through his school years and 2 years of community collage. During this time he played in an eight piece combo, directed a junior high pep band and made several road tours with the community collage jazz band. Since then he has married, had two kids and joined with the Easy Street Band. He's been with Easy Street for 20 years.

" There's nothing better than playing music with people you love and respect and I hope to continue playing with Easy Street for many years to come!"

Loretta Brown (Piano)

Loretta was born with a deep desire to play the piano, make sound, and bring song and joy to the world! She learned to walk by crawling up the leg of a piano and playing the keys. Her first composition was written at age 4, which she entitled "The Storm". Her desire to play was so strong that at age 5, she began to sit at the piano with music books and figure out how to read the notes. She is the 7th of 8 children and there was very little money to direct towards piano lessons, but that didn't matter to Loretta who continued to learn to play by herself until age 13, when she finally got regular piano lessons. Since that time she has played for everything from church to musical theater, and has played worldwide as an accompanist to many great singers and choirs.

Rick Shillinger (Bass)

Rick is the bass player of the group.He has spent most of his life in the Puget Sound area. Having graduated from Issaquah High School in 1970, along with his twin brother, Rodney, and good friend Larry, he is also one of the original band members of the Associated Sounds. Starting out in the 8th grade and for 23 years they played for weddings and a variety of different organizations.
Rick also plays trumpet and flugel horn. He is active in his church playing his instruments with the worship team and is often called upon to play for special music. In February, 2000, Rick had the opportunity to play with Scott Krippayne, a Christian recording artist.

Rod Shillinger(Tenor Sax)

Jennifer "Jenny" Goebel (Trombone)

Jenny started playing music when she was five years old in a piano preschool class.  As she developed her love for music, she also started the trombone at the age of ten.  She played trombone in the Highline Community Band, Quintessence, and toured the East Coast in a select band for the renovation of the Statue of Liberty.  She then proceeded to the University of Minnesota to earn a bachelor's degree in Music Education.  She taught elementary band in the Kent School District for seven years.  While teaching band she earned a master's degree in education from the University of Puget Sound. 

Jenny is now happily a stay at home mom, but is still very active in the music community.  She continues playing her trombone in Easy Street The Band for the pure joy of playing big band tunes!

Jeff Gilles (Guitar)

Jeff received his first (Silvertone) guitar for his 11th birthday. He has been playing ever since. Jeff grew up playing in rock and roll and blues bands. By the time he was in High School in Mason City, Iowa he was giving guitar lessons at the local music store. Although he bought his first John Coltrane album in 1968, he didn’t start playing jazz until he left college. Jeff grew up in Iowa and graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in film. After spending a few years realizing that, although film was a fun degree, he wasn’t making much headway on becoming the next Truffaut he went back to college for the computer science degree. He then worked for several years as a consultant with Oracle working on projects across the country before starting his own professional services company in Seattle. He sold his company in 1998, started teaching in the software engineering program at Seattle University, and started playing with a number of different local jazz musicians. Jeff has always had a love for 30s and 40s swing music and the pioneering big band guitarists like Freddie Green.
Jeff’s other loves include traveling with his wife, wine, golf and playing Frisbee with the dogs

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Stanley H. Hilzer (Guitar)