In this video Jeff’s playing Bud Powell’s Tempus Fugit (Time Flies) behind a montage of photos of him performing in San Francisco, as well as in New York in the 1970s, along with pictures from his showbiz family.

Jeff’s maternal grandparents were theater folk: Viva Reinard (stage name Viva Renaud) and John Reinhard II, besides his father, valve trombonist Frank Orchard, and mother, chanteuse Virginia Orchard,

Viva toured Europe before the first world war in a dance act, Renaud & Renaud, consisting of herself and a male partner (whose name is now unknown.) His boyfriend was the costume designer making and repairing Viva’s outfits, including one bedazzled with little mirrors, according to early family accounts. The photo of Viva holding a horse whip and wearing a sailor suit with her hair braided is another snippet from her performing career. (As pictured in the video, she’s on the left.) And her self expression didn’t end after hanging up her dance shoes: Viva owned a hat shop in New York’s Time Square. She also taught taught Jeff to read before he went to grade school.

Among John Reinhard’s theater credits in the first quarter of the 1900s was as Anna Held‘s leading man in the Ziegfeld Follies. He also appeared in silent movies, including  Feathertop (1916), The Carter Case (1919) and Bound and Gagged (1919). (According to IMDB, who lists his last name as Reinhardt.)

Jeff’s mother and father performed together in New York, and in his band, Frank Orchard’s Hot Five With Ginger Added. (Jeff’s mom was a redhead.) Frank’s four decades making music found him on the stage and in recordings with many jazz greats, including Bobby Hackett, Louis Armstrong, Willie The Lion Smith, Lips Paige, Roy Eldridge, Joe Thomas, Mugsy Spanier and Pee Wee Russell.