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Gandalfe

The Bis Key Chronicles

About Me

After a 27 year hiatus, I've returned to the world of performance music. I'm a sax player who luvs jazz. Check out my main blog, the Bis Key Chronicles, at http://gandalfe.spaces.live.comCurrently puttin' together the Dissonance (at http://www.gandalfe.net/dissonance.htm) with Brad Benefeld on bass, Gary Anderson on trumpet, Tim Coffey on sticks, Dave Franswa on bone, Suzy Glass and me on saxes, and Rob Silver on guitar.Suzy, Ray and I are working on a new sax group that I've tentatively called 'Inspektor Gadget'. This would be a group of four saxes and a rhythm section playing a wide variety of music genres.

My Interests

Coffee, jazz, reading, computers, did I say coffee? ;o)

I'd like to meet:

Other musicians, especially vocalists, pianists and reed people. Family and friends, well most of them anyway. ;o)And Pete Thomas, who rocks as witnessed by this video:

Music:

Jazz, funk, blues, rock, gospel. You name it; if it has a sexy girl or a sax in it, all the better. :o)

Movies:

Doc Hollywood, Groundhog Day, American President, Cowboy Bebop, Dave, Gattica, Bird, Swimming Pool, Duet, Dead Man, Apocalypto, Frida, Desperado, Mambo Kings, Skins, Pow Wow Highway, Amelie, La Femme Nikita, Siesta, Matador, Housekeeping, Fishhawk, Montenegro, Tin Drum, Map of The Human Heart, To Have and Have Not, Casablanca, Women in Love, A New Kind of Love, Brazil, Austin Powers, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Chocolat, Black Robe, The Mission, Wild at Heart, El Norte, Like Water For Chocolate, Spinal Tap, Red Sun, Hell in The Pacific, Come Back to The Five & Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean, Being There, Whale Rider, Road Warrior, Donny Brasco, The Shout, The Princess Bride, Coming to America, Gilbert Grape, Benny and Joon, Something About Mary, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Cocteau's Beauty and The Beast, The Gift, Witches, Willow, The Last Wave, The Lair of The White Worm, Sleepy Hollow, The Meaning of Life, The Holy Grail, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Two Mules For Sister Sara, Blade Runner, Fifth Element, Ressurection, The Brave, Last Tango in Paris; foreign films

Television:

Grey's Anatomy, 60 Minutes, Myth Busters, Survivor (yeah Suzy and my guilty sin), House, Daily Show with Jon Steward, Two and Half Men, anything on the Discovery station. Hey maybe I watch too much TV.

Books:

Perdido Street Station, Swing, the DaVinci Files, Cryptonomicon, Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Statistical Abstract of the United States, The Ultimate Fake Book, Childhood's End, RAMA, Stranger in a Strange Land, Ender's Game, The Eight

Heroes:

Paul Desmond, Jimmy Carter, Darren Motamedy, Bill Gates, Boney James, Stan Getz, Neil Proff, Ray Guyll, Scott Dart, Sonny Rollins, Dave Koz, and a couple hundred other sax players.

My Blog

When I die...

http://blufiles.storage.msn.com/y1p0QV9E5mSwMBo-R0UQ8aQl30Lv JK5n-7BPxyqoavJdy_dYruPv7jAqeny5BSnt2gk?PARTNER=WRITER...
Posted by Gandalfe on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:16:00 PST

Jazz Jam at the Proff Crib

Check out the last three minutes of the Jazz Jam Video that I participated in this Saturday. Good times....
Posted by Gandalfe on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:12:00 PST

Microsoft Jazz Band 2008

Check out the YouTubeage I just posted with excerpts from the Microsoft Jazz Band's participation in the United Way Day of Caring. Good times... Tonight is the Jazz Jam BBQ at Neil's place. We don't ...
Posted by Gandalfe on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:16:00 PST

Meet our new Puppy, Amelia

We went to Woofstock and found sweet Amelia, our new puppy. I blogged about the experience here: http://gandalfe.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51AA828BCB20646!423 9.entry...
Posted by Gandalfe on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:32:00 PST

Redman Trio on NPR

Hours of listening here: http://urge2burge.wordpress.com/
Posted by Gandalfe on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:56:00 PST

Dissonance Gigs in August

Sunday, 17 August at noon we're playing the Heritage House next to the Pike Street Market downtown Seattle. Sunday, 31 August at 2:15 we're at Ballard Locks.
Posted by Gandalfe on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:11:00 PST

Seattle Community Band Festival


Posted by Gandalfe on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:25:00 PST

Stolen Bass Sax - $1500 reward offered

We've just received this from my good friend Benedikt: "Johann Pohl borrowed my Eppelsheim bass saxophone and did not return it. The engraving on the bell is "Eppelsheim Munchen" and the serial ...
Posted by Gandalfe on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:16:00 PST

Petz Thang, at first it grossed me out.

I mean, how can one human own another as a pet. But my neices and their friends got me into it a bit. And I really cherry-pick my pets. I'm pretty good at cleaning their paws, feeding them with love, ...
Posted by Gandalfe on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:18:00 PST

Woodinville Community Band Spring Concert!


Posted by Gandalfe on Fri, 16 May 2008 08:08:00 PST