You can find me around New Orleans in a number of different settings. I play bass and guitar and have worked with many local bands/musicians including Saaraba, Blair Gimma, Ya Ya Sol and A.J. Loria. Currently I gig with my group Half a Million Strangers, a group co-led by trombonist Luke Huddleston, and I also play regularly with the group Les Poissons Rouges. I also host a morning radio show on WWOZ 90.7 FM (on the internet at wwoz.org). The radio show is dedicated to playing a wide variety of jazz music from traditional to Latin to modern/avant to New Orleans brass band music. It airs every Tuesday from 6-9 AM CST. Another mainstay for me is the Rue de la Course Cafe on Oak St., where you can find me behind the counter three afternoons a week.
"Name me someone that's not a parasite, and I'll go out and say a prayer for him," -bob dylan
Frank Zappa, Beck, Miles, Monk, Mingus, Duke, Diz, Medeski, Pavement, Built to Spill, Otis Redding, Bach, Dylan, Marley, Nina Simone, Louis Jordan, The Clash, Django Reinhardt, Billie Holiday, Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, Fela, JB, Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Radiohead, P-Funk, Sun Ra, Tom Waits, Toots & The Maytals, Tortoise, Ravi Shankar, Rebirth Brass Band, Blind Texas Marlin (to name a few). To check out playlists from my radio show on WWOZ go to: http://www.wwoz.org/djs.php?name=Mark%20LaMaire
Anything Kubrick, anything Coen Brothers, Monty Python. Recent favorites: Team America, Dog Day Afternoon, City of God, Koyaanisquatsi
Court TV, and that crazy local channel that plays all the old opera videos and stuff.
Grew up reading Vonnegut, graduated to Tom Robbins. These days mostly non-fiction. Recently: Miles Davis autobiography "Miles" and Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said"
The guy who put the bom in the bom-shu-bom-shou-bomp. Oh, yeah, and also the dude that put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong (can't forget him!!!)