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Since its inception, Waking Ashland — drawing a lot of its sound from Ben Folds — has mainly centered around vocalist/keyboardist Jonathan Jones and guitarist Ryan Lallier, who originally formed the band alongside drummer Thomas Lee in November 2003 while all three were music majors at California State University. Robert …

“Son of the mellophone participant” doesn’t quite pack the strike parade zing of “Boy of the Preacher Guy” but non-etheless it’s the start of the tale of Walter Fuller, a veteran jazz and dance music group trumpeter and vocalist who’s sometimes puzzled with Gil Fuller, due to the fact that …