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Ramsey Castañeda

About Me

I'm Ramsey. I'm leaning how to play saxophone and jazz.These recordings were my audition material for UNT, recorded in 2006.

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Member Since: 18/08/2006
Band Website: www.RamseyCastaneda.com
Band Members: Rick Lotter, Drums; Matt Robinson, Bass; Dinos San Pedro, Keyboard; Ramsey Castaneda, Saxophone
Influences: Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, Bird, Hank Mobley,Joe Henderson, Lester Young, Chris Potter, Branford Marsalis, Dave Holland, Mingus, Maria Schneider, Art Blakey and the Jazz messangers.
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Type of Label: Major

My Blog

A Time to Love - Stevie Wonder

We have time for racismWe have time for criticismHeld bondage by our ism's When will there be a time to loveWe make time to debate religionPassing bills and building prisonsFor building fortunes and p...
Posted by on Tue, 08 May 2007 21:25:00 GMT

DO NOT accept the PREMATURE AUTOPSY of a NOBLE ART FORM.

PREMATURE AUTOPSIES Though we are told to mourn it, we must know that it was a noble sound. It had majesty. Yes, it was majestic. Deep down in the soul of it all, where the notes themselves provide ...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:58:00 GMT

The Hipster

-Found this on the Thelonious Monk myspace- To the hipster, Bird was a living justification of their philosophy. The hipster is an underground man. He is to the Second World War what the dadaist was o...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:26:00 GMT

Excerpt from Blue: The Murder of Jazz

The cry that jazz is dead has been so ubiquitous throughout jazz history that it has almost become a tradition in itself. So let me state the obvious. Blue: the murder of Jazz is not an obituary for j...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:48:00 GMT