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Deep Burble

About Me

Weaned on Khachaturian, pre-teened on Peppermint Twist.Concert and marching band, high school and college, bass clarinet and bass drum (in a McLeod tartan kilt!)Beatles, 2001 (Also Sprach Zarathustra).Doors, Moody Blues, Vanilla Fudge.Ann Arbor, Blind Pig, The Silvertones, RFD Boys, Dick Siegel, Dan Hicks.Data processing, forestry, UP-Leningrad love.ELP, Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition.Saint Paul, Boiled in Lead, Koko Taylor, family, 'tempted tenor sax, return to Bass Clarinet Love.Jazz, experimental, alt pop.***Minnesota Sur Seine!!!***

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 19/12/2006
Band Members: Bruce on Bass Clarinet, accompanied by the sweet scary noises in my head
Influences: Denis Colin, Jimi Hendrix, 2 Foot Yard, Jim Morrison, Monk, Miles, Beth Custer, Tom Waits, Uli Drechsler, Leonard Cohen
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Deep Burble: Up from Under

Wanna kick-start your Saturday evening?Fathom my bass clarinet burblings while enjoying a tasty dinner at Trotter's Cafe. 6 - 8 PM this Saturday, Sept. 27232 Cleveland Ave. N (@Marshall), St.Paulwww. ...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:58:00 GMT

Jazz as Conversation: Speaking of, and Speaking in, the Groove

A while back, on a music website which unfortunately no longer exists, I contributed musings about music with the handle "Low_Reed."  Here's the tagline I used on that site: ---------------------...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:48:00 GMT

Worship Music!

That's not an adjective and a noun, folks.  It's active verb, venerated object, and exhortation. I went to an Episcopalian Evensong service the other day, on a friend's invitation, to hear her ch...
Posted by on Wed, 23 May 2007 05:45:00 GMT

"Cover", my ass!

Know any "cover" tunes that are rockin' re-interpretations, that float your boat whether or not the original did? My friend Tim at http://www.phpsolvent.com/wordpress/?p=1691 wrote about his faves, an...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:35:00 GMT

Iko Rolling Stone

The Cedar, the Dean, and the Wu.  I spent some quality time with this group last night.  Dean Magraw joined The Big Wu for their second set on the intimate stage of the Cedar Cultural Center...
Posted by on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:08:00 GMT

"Songs for Swans" - Denis Colin Trio presents Gwen Matthews

I've had the great good fortune to participate in the "Minnesota Sur Seine" music festival in St. Paul and Minneapolis during the last three autumns.  (Check out www.myspace.com/surseine; I'll al...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:39:00 GMT

Pivot Modulation

My son is minoring in music at college, and I'm eager to learn what he knows, without the tuition and the tests.  Last night he told me about pivot modulation, where the mth chord in a key is red...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:00:00 GMT

The Power of Music

Yesterday my soulmate, my best friend, my wife, and my girlfriend conspired to give me two wonderful gifts: books about the ecstatic experiencing of music.  Now, not only are these four souls of ...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:47:00 GMT