Janet Davis (vocals) is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music, where she specialized in musical theater performance. She has more than 10 years of professional performance experience. Favorite roles include The Narrator in Into the Woods, directed by John Schack; Thumbelina in a touring production of the same name with Theater Four of Richmond, Virginia; Sarah in Guys and Dolls; and Louka in Shaw's Arms and the Man at the Hilberry Theater in Detroit. It's all about the Great American Musical for Davis, with a deep appreciation for WWII-era love songs as well. When she's not singing with the band, she partners with her husband Wyatt to raise three kids and also operates Davis Interventures, a nonprofit consulting firm.
    
Mark McKenzie (alto and soprano saxophones) took up the saxophone in sixth grade, perhaps inspired by famous sax players like Richie Cunningham of Happy Days and Zoot from the Muppets. Happily, his influences matured. A true jazz enthusiast, Mark draws inspiration from the masters: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ellington, Monk — not to mention younger purveyors of the art like Branford Marsalis and Joshua Redman. Non-jazz favorites range from the Beatles and Elvis Costello to minimalist composer Philip Glass. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Mark has been active since the mid-1990s in the Dallas Christian Jazz Band and the Wilshire Wind Symphony.

Wyatt Davis (guitar) enters the Velvet Living Room from Stage Left, with the tones and stylings of Page, Lifeson and Tabor flowing just beneath the surface — and sometimes breaking through unexpectedly. His passion for things with strings began in third grade with violin and moved later in life to the guitar, with mandolin mixed in here and there. A former rhythm and lead guitarist in such legendary Dallas rock bands as Buck Naked & The Cosmonauts and The Livingstones, his playing invites you to "Come as You Are" into the Velvet Living Room and enjoy. Husband of leading lady/band Diva Janet Davis, Wyatt lives in Lake Highlands and is the father of three. He and Janet operate the nonprofit consulting firm Davis Interventures.

Raylan Loggins (bass), aka VelRey, is a jazz-immersionist preferring to swirl in a sea of bop, bossa and cool jazz to any other musical form. He includes such diverse sources as Timothy B. Schmidt, Paul Chambers and Wassily Kandinsky among his musical inspirations and traces his clothing inspirations to Salvador Dali. He traces his early interest in jazz to teenage insomnia that led him to listen to the only all-night radio available at the time: the easy listening jazz of the sixties. A lifelong Dallasite, Raylan's former musical pursuits include playing alongside Wyatt Davis in The Livingstones.

Jon Hock (drums) inherited a pair of well-used drum sticks from his oldest brother, and grew up tapping along to a wide variety of music (courtesy of four older sisters who played virtually every Broadway musical and movie soundtrack from the 50's and 60's, along with an amazing range of music that included everything from Dean Martin and Sarah Vaughan to Elvis Presley and Chopin). After years of beating on the bottom of a wastebasket, he convinced his parents to buy him his first snare drum. He began accompanying a local jazz guitar teacher and finally got a full drum set at age 14. In addition to playing drums in the Velvet Living Room, Jon plays percussion in the Wilshire Wind Symphony and the Heritage Brass Band. His tastes in music remain eclectic, and his lifelong love of playing music has never stopped growing.