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aj kluth

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About Me

aj began taking music seriously during his college years in green bay wisconsin. not to say he didn't like making noise before that, he did, he just wasn't too serious about it. he was more serious about wearing polyester pants and smoking a pipe. oh, and They Might Be Giants. well, now he makes a living playing woodwind instruments, primarily saxophone, as well as flute and clarinet. he plays them in public for money and in private he teaches children how to play them, too. also, he plays some mean penny whiste, guitar, and piano. his wife works for intelligentsia coffee where she is the director of quality control. this means she tastes coffee for a living and gets to travel to south america a lot. seriously. aj recently purchased a masters degree in jazz studies from depaul university with which he will continue to be a broke musician. good thing people like coffee. other than that, you can generally find aj reading anything he can get his hands on and wishing he didn't have to shave.

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Member Since: 8/26/2005
Band Website: ajkluth.com
Influences: wayne shorter, dave douglas, stan getz, damon zick, joe henderson, chris potter, woody shaw, the postal service, general confusion, elliott smith, the cure, grandma, mark turner, miles davis, john coltrane, marc chagall, they might be giants, wassily kandinsky, dostoevsky, jesus
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My Blog

my Chris Potter Transcrition Book is finally available!!

hey everyone, i'm glad to tell you that my new book, Chris Potter On Standards: Ten Note-For-Note Transcriptions Of Improvisations Over Standards And Standard Style Tunes is available.  check out...
Posted by aj kluth on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:43:00 PST

oh my freaking gosh...4.5 hours of THE SIFL AND OLLY SHOW!!!

ok, so this has nothing to do with anything, but here it is.  4.5 hours of the SIFL AND OLLY SHOW!!  featuring - "a word with chester", "precious roy", "calls calls calls, calls from th...
Posted by aj kluth on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:41:00 PST

good news and bad news

to all of those who hated my beard, there is good news:i've shaved it off.to those of you who found my beard rakishly handsome, there is bad news:i've shaved it off. that is all.  ...
Posted by aj kluth on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:27:00 PST

Shakespeare Is My President

i'm thinking that i need to start screen printing my own shirts.  not only because its hella fun, but because its time consuming and when people ask, "hey, where did you find that cool shirt?" yo...
Posted by aj kluth on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:21:00 PST

diploma induced ennui - or - wanna have lunch?

so, i graduated from depual last saturday.  yep.  done and done.  so, now i'm just teaching a bit and gigging, doing the freelancing thingy and working with trippin billies (trippinbill...
Posted by aj kluth on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:57:00 PST

now its time to tell you all the things you've done wrong since i last saw you...

in the spirit of Chris Greene's (www.chrisgreenejazz.com) fantastic link with the p-funk preacher, i offer some links to a few of the funniest video clips i've seen in a while.  a ...
Posted by aj kluth on Mon, 22 May 2006 06:54:00 PST

sleep is for quitters - or - malta and vodka

so, sarah's in new jersey and i'm a loser on myspace at 12:15 in the morning.  i can never sleep when she's away, just seems like sleeping is for quitters.  well well, so it goes.  scho...
Posted by aj kluth on Fri, 19 May 2006 10:25:00 PST

schifty five

right, so i had my first three gigs with trippin billies (the nation's most successful dave matthews tribute band, for those of you not keeping up here) and am i wrecked.  i am definitely not use...
Posted by aj kluth on Tue, 09 May 2006 10:04:00 PST

new tunes!

yeah, so we recorded some of the gig this last monday night, and TA DA!! here it is on, whose space?  oh, myspace.  "a time, times, and half" a time is my tune, as is "gobo's lament".  ...
Posted by aj kluth on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:13:00 PST

i am so sick of the music i have posted on here...

that is all, aint no more  
Posted by aj kluth on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:14:00 PST