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Zach Bardon

Zach Bardon is worldwide.

About Me

zach bardon was born in Omaha, NE, to parents. He was also born infected with the creative bug. (Or gifted with an inquisitive nature, or having a high midi-chlorian count... whatever.) Since his first creative efforts with finger paint, Zach has tackled all pursuits with artistry. Whether it be mowing the lawn in stunning patterns that create pleasant eyelines, or arranging grilled cheese triangles in an intricate pattern on the serving plate, whether it be a college architecture project or improvising on a jazz standard, Zach often found joy in making art out of life. Even tasks that ordinarily require little skill are honed to an art and a science when Zach undertakes them. Zach imbues his surroundings with simple, functional artistry.
Zach currently works as an instructor. He also tracks various projects/demos at his small but quality home studio, Clandestiny Studios.
Zach has studio, touring, concert, wedding, church, coffeeshop, dinner music, and production experience in a wide range of instruments and styles.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/3/2006
Band Website: zachbardon.com/music
Band Members: Yes.
Influences: vocal: Sting, Kevin Max, Nat King Cole, Leigh Nash, Ella Fitzgerald, Chris Martin, Sarah Slean, Korey Anderson , Elvis, Mike Doughty, Dave Matthews, Martin Smith, Jeremy Wilson , Shiina Ringo, hundreds of others.
piano: Bob James, Chopin, Lyle Mays, Bobby Peterson, Chad Vice , Beethoven, Dave Pedde , Keith Green, Scott Kinsey, Brian Culbertson, Thelonious Monk, Debussy, Bill Evans, Dave Bainbridge, the good Dr. Herb Johnson, Scott Joplin, Peter Shu, Pat Metheny, Ravel, Jeff Lorber, Miroslava Kisilevitch, Arturo Sandoval, George Shearing, Scott Henderson, Astor Piazzolla, Joe Zawinul, Shiina Ringo, a myriad others.
guitar: Marc Antoine, Dave Bainbridge, Brad Tretola, Martin Smith, Edward Gerhard, Matt Slocum, Phil Keaggy, Steve Shirley, Lincoln Brewster, Shiina Ringo, Jeremy Messersmith, a plethora of others.
drums: Terl Bryant, Kirk Covington, Matthew Tobias , Vinnie Colaiuta, Zach Miller, Kenny Horst, Toshiki Hata, David Garibaldi, a slew of others.
saxophone: Dave Koz, David Sanborn, Gary Berg, Ed Calle, Cannonball, Warren Hill, Ernie Watts, the requisite Coltrane, a multiplicity of others.
bass: I don't really play bass (I just fake it) but if I did I would be influenced by Gary Willis, Aaron Fabbrini, Michael Manring, Seiji Kameda, Tommy Sims, Billy Peterson, Bill Bardon (my dad is a tasty fretless player), and Michitaro, to name a few.
songwriting: Astor Piazzolla, Sheryl Crow, David Sanborn, Elliott Smith, Brian Culbertson, Sting, Michael Olson, Burlap to Cashmere, Debussy, Dave Matthews, Soul Coughing, Chopin, Sixpence None the Richer, Alison Krauss, Ryan Williams, David Sanborn, Jeremy Wilson, Jeremy Messersmith, Steven Curtis Chapman, Cole Porter, Yuu Nakashima, Harry Connick Jr., Iona, Shiina Ringo, Dave Pedde, Kevin Max, Nat King Cole, Delirious, Django Reinhardt, Coldplay, Beethoven, Tom Waits, and the movie Amelie. Yeah, I know, I don't have a lot of these recorded yet.
Sounds Like: Zach Bardon
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Keepers Vol. 3

Ladies and gentlemen, another hilarious and thoroughly cute installment of selections from my students' writing. Enjoy!You have more hair! -Cassie, immediately when I entered the classroomQ: Write a ...
Posted by Zach Bardon on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:51:00 PST

Keepers Vol. 2

Time for another entertaining collection of quotes from my students!! Enjoy.I like night. Because I like sleep. It's happiness. -Eddie 3/7I'm shop for food juice and gum. -Andy 3/7 (haha food juice...
Posted by Zach Bardon on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:50:00 PST

my new and improved top friends system

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. -Peter UstinovIntroducing my New and Improved (one o...
Posted by Zach Bardon on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:42:00 PST

a valuable lesson

Living in Korea has taught me many useful things. For instance, I learned this valuable lesson a couple days ago:Never microwave an egg.After the explosion, I was cleaning up egg for almost an hour.p...
Posted by Zach Bardon on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:22:00 PST

at last! my mad whistling skills are unleashed on the world

Sometimes you've got to sing the stuff that you don't want to say. -Mike DoughtySo it's been quite a while since a new song left the computer of Zach Bardon for the wide world outside. So now there's ...
Posted by Zach Bardon on Sat, 05 May 2007 01:06:00 PST

this has been a public service announcement

If a thousand words is worth a picture, a living image is worth a library. -I was in a hurry so I just quoted my own song. sorry.Just to let you know. I've started a photoblog of sorts. I'm terribl...
Posted by Zach Bardon on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:05:00 PST

Keepers Vol. I

I knew the moment I began grading homework and saw that a student had written my name as "Zeor" that I was going to encounter a goodly number of amusing English blunders during my tenure here in Korea...
Posted by Zach Bardon on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:08:00 PST

Zach's Top Ten Reasons to Live in Korea

10. Side dishes. Part of your complete meal at any Korean restaurant is side dishes. You get more than you pay for because they always include side dishes, which are basically bottomless -- if you run...
Posted by Zach Bardon on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:03:00 PST

it's final -- i'm joining a clan

So I've decided I want to be part of a clan. It's so cool just to even use the word "clan." I could go up to someone and say, "hey, I'm part of a clan" and the person would be like "you are so cool fo...
Posted by Zach Bardon on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:17:00 PST

I have 146 friends.

Count your friends, count them one by one...Zach Bardon has 146 friends. And that's it. MySpace said so. I nearly jumped off a bridge when I started this site, because I had no friends. Every time I l...
Posted by Zach Bardon on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:52:00 PST