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About Me

** Hey! Buy the new CD, Industrial Jazz a Go Go!, here! Or here! ** So it's not really "industrial." Were the Beatles really insects?The casual bio: The IJG showcases the bombastic, jump-cut, frenetic music of composer Andrew Durkin, while providing an apposite vehicle for the mad improvisational chutzpah of some of southern California's pluckiest, most unsung talents. The result is a kind of avant-garde party music. The more staid bio: Formed in the spring of 2000, the IJG is one of the few large independent "jazz" (whatever that is) ensembles on the scene today. Featuring up to eighteen performers (reeds, brass, rhythm, vocals, dancers, poets) at a time, the group has been a persistent force in Los Angeles for six years now, and during that period it has also performed throughout California (San Diego, Bakersfield, San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Truckee, and Petaluma), as well as in Nevada, Texas, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware. It has received numerous grants from the American Composers Forum, has been supported by the NEA and the McKnight Foundation, and has been heard on NPR and hundreds of radio stations around the world. Write-ups on the group have appeared in The LA Weekly, The SF Weekly, The Wire, The North Bay Bohemian, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Boston Herald, The New York Times, and numerous other publications.Can't hear the tracks above? Click here for clips from every tune on the new album. Can't get enough of that crazy Industrial Jazz? Fill up the void with useless IJG junk (T Shirts, mugs, etc.) from Cafe Press. (Please buy lots! We're saving up for a box of Cheezits.)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/14/2006
Band Website: uglyrug.com
Band Members: Recent gigs have tended to include the following motherfuckers: Beth Schenck, Damon Zick, Evan Francis, Cory Wright, Brian Walsh, Gavin Templeton, Ben Wendel, Josh Sinton, Katharina Thompsen, Ryan Perez-Daple, David Moyer, Dan Boissy, Kelly Corbin, Hayan Charleston, Ariel Alexander, James King on saxophones; Phil Rodriguez, Kris Tiner, Dan Rosenboom, Stephanie Richards, Clinton Patterson, and Andre Canniere on trumpet; Wolter Wierbos, James Hirschfeld, Ian Carroll, Mike Richardson, Ron Christian, Shaunte Palmer on trombone; and a rhythm section composed of Dan Schnelle (drums), Oliver Newell (bass), Aaron Kohen (bass), Kevin Farrell (bass), Robert Jacobson (guitar), Drew Jorgensen (vibes), Jill Knapp (vocals), Tany Ling (vocals), Dina Emerson (vocals), Amanda Tiner (vocals), and Andrew Durkin (piano). Emeritus members include badasses like Daniel Glass, drums (Royal Crown Review, etc.), Bruce Fowler, trombone (Frank Zappa, etc.), Joe Berardi, drums (Double Naught Spy Car, etc.), and the aforementioned Wolter Wierbos (ICP). I sure as hell hope I didn't forget anybody, but I probably did.
Influences: Listen and tell me. (Alright, maybe that's a copout. But do you really want another long, boring list? How about this: the "big three" influences on the IJG have always been Zappa, Ellington, and Mingus. After that, it's a free-for-all, and the playlist changes pretty rapidly. Right now (this week) it includes Devo, ELO, the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Beach Boys, Ray Baretto, Fred Katz, Riz Ortolani, John Barry, Harpo Marx, Carl Stalling, Moondog, Perez Prado, James Brown, Oliver Nelson, Wendy Carlos, Dean Martin, Lord Buckley, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Charlie Parker, the Beatles, the Crystals, and Tad Dameron.)
Sounds Like: We thumb our noses in the general direction of music labels. We ain't purists. We sure ain't "industrial." We're probably not really "jazz." The best response I can come up with here: listen and tell me. (No, for real this time.)
Record Label: Evander Music
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New tunes... eh, what?

New tunes. Yup, two of 'em. Right there at the top of the (50% functional) MySpace "standalone player." Both are live recordings from our recent excursion to the Netherlands. Both of them have titles....
Posted by Industrial Jazz Group on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:03:00 PST

Industrial Jazz on Ice: Jan 2007 East Coast Tour Recap

[Note: this is an edited version of the post that appears on the main IJG blog.]Hi! The tour is over, so maybe now I can get back into MySpace again!I'm exhausted as hell, so I doubt this will be the ...
Posted by Industrial Jazz Group on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:54:00 PST

Incommunicado

Alas. Not much time for MySpace these days. I've been buried in the process of booking our upcoming tour. Lots of wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth. But now that most of the booking work is done...
Posted by Industrial Jazz Group on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:40:00 PST

KZSU

Apparently the latest IJG record recently got a bit of good exposure from our friends at KZSU. We were in rotation for nine weeks, and we made the CMJ Jazz Top 10 Report the whole time (even holding t...
Posted by Industrial Jazz Group on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:33:00 PST

Varia

Random bits of data pertinent to our second week in Portland:1. I learned of the imminent demise of both "new music" series at Club Tropical (Cryptonight on Thursdays, and Ear Orchard on Mondays). The...
Posted by Industrial Jazz Group on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 11:04:00 PST

Join in the fun

Okay, folks, time for a little audience participation...My dear friend and musical compatriot, Jill, is holding a contest of sorts over on her blog. She's singing with us on Thursday, and we have to s...
Posted by Industrial Jazz Group on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:32:00 PST

Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny, The Bogeyman, MySpace Technical Group

Q. What do these things have in common?A. Say it with me now: NONE OF THEM ACTUALLY EXIST.Fuckers.
Posted by Industrial Jazz Group on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:07:00 PST

This magic moment

Objects in the room:A puzzle of the United States.A wooden train set.An empty bottle of Black Hart stout.Various boxes into which have been packed an excessive number of books and CDs.A pile of DVDs, ...
Posted by Industrial Jazz Group on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:33:00 PST

IJG August tour wrap-up

August 24: Culver City! August 25-6: Carson City! August 27: Oakland! August 28: Bakersfield!Before I forget, there's a Mike Richardson quote from this tour that I simply need to record for posterity....
Posted by Industrial Jazz Group on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:49:00 PST

Influx of Stuffs

For whatever reason (can't be that it's a slow news day, that's for sure), we just got a big flurry of friend requests. Given the fact that I like to look carefully at each profile, and provide a comm...
Posted by Industrial Jazz Group on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:03:00 PST