Dave's background is set out on the About Dave page. He’s active in various contexts in Central Texas. Besides leading his own trio/quartet, he’s a regular member of the group led by Byron Swann (SJQ) , among others. He’s currently a member of the Waco Jazz Orchestra and the Temple Jazz Orchestra, and an active freelance musician. For many years, Dave also handled keyboard and arranging duties for the eclectic ensemble The Elephants.

The trio (and quartet) has performed in Waco at Six Shooter Junction and Barry's Coffee Company, in Temple at Barry's Coffee House, and at Austin's Elephant Room. They were featured in a Texas Music Café broadcast in October 1998 and as part of the Jazz at the Playhouse series in March 1999. The foursome played at Waco's Hemingway's Watering Hole before it moved to its current location in The Marketplace on Bosque, and several times in the courtyard outside the current club. A special edition of the quartet, with ringers Eric Marienthal on alto sax, Ken Wild on bass, and Jeremy Brown on drums played The Elephant Room in Austin in March, 2004. The trio was a regular Friday feature at the Elite Circle Grille from 2005 through 2008, played the Waco Arts Festival and The Cameron Park Centennial Celebration’s ‘Jazz in the Park’, and more recently has been heard at Waco's Hotel Indigo and Valley Milles Vineyard. The quartet has performed at the Palladium, the Brazos Nights summer concert series, Woodway’s Midsummer Nights concert series, and (as a quintet) in Jazzin’ at the Zoo at the Cameron Park Zoo. Dave and Ken, aka The Wild Brothers, have played The Elephant Room in Austin and Vitello's Upstairs in Los Angeles.

Wild’s CD Wild Sides features two different groups.  The bulk of the music was recorded in two trio sessions in '96 and '97, and a quartet session in October 2002, all at Stagg Street Studio in Van Nuys CA under engineer Gary Denton.  The rhythm section for all three sessions comprises  brother Ken Wild on bass and master drummer Ralph Humphrey on drums.   Ken, best known as the bassist in the fusion group Seawind, has been based in LA since the late seventies, working the studios, as a bassist in the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and performing in every conceivable context, including jazz performances with performers such as James Moody, Freddie Hubbard, Eliane Elias, Doug Cameron, Emil Richards, Toshiko Akiyoshi and a host of others.  He was the bassist with Natalie Cole from 2002 to 2004.   (Ken is also the CD's producer).   Ralph's extensive credentials include tours with the original Don Ellis Band and Frank Zappa, as well as performances with (among many others) John Klemmer, Clare Fischer, Tony Bennett, and Toshiko Akiyoshi's band.  For the quartet date Wild added saxophonist Larry Williams, another alumni of Seawind with extensive credits, currently touring with Al Jarreau.