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Pugsley Buzzard

About Me

Pugsley Buzzard plays the piano somewhat like Chico Marx, Thelonious Monk, Professor Longhair, Fats Waller and the Devil. He sings like a grizzlybear and is quite entertaining. These days you can see him solo and with a trio or quartet and occasionally with a big brass band.Pugsley writes his own material but also likes to interpret all sorts of classic material from old parlour songs, show tunes, work songs, blues, jazz, funk, cartoon music, film scores and more. He has composed for film and theatre and ensembles big and small.For bookings contact Baiba James at BJ Planetstar Entertainment. Phone +61 (0)2 96993229 or email: [email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 20/06/2006
Band Website: www.pugsleybuzzard.com
Band Members: Pugsley Buzzard - Vocals, Piano Jon Trapper Trevena - Drums (Sydney) Tim Kingsley - Drums (Melbourne) Pete Guazzelli - Drums (Perth) Anthony Howe - Drums (Sydney) Adam Duff- Drums (Melbourne) Micheal Hirsh- Drums (Melnourne) Dan DiPaula - Drums (Perth) Tim Wilson - Bass (Sydney) Karl Dunnicliff(Sydney) Jon Fernandez - Bass (Perth) Nathan Ford - Tuba(air bass) (Melbourne) Brigitte Celle - Double Bass (Melbourne) Ben Franz - Bass (Perth) Bill Dudley - Trumpet Chris Komorowski - Guitar(Sydney) Ant Gray - Guitar (Perth) John Stuart (Sydney) Mickey Young - Sax (Sydney) Andy Williamson - Sax (Melbourne) Justen Stoodley - Sax (Sydney) Declan Jones - Trumpet Roz Jones - Trombone Eduardo Lala - Trombone (Lisbon) Hugo Atunes - Double Bass(Lisbon) Andre Sousa Machado - Drums(Lisbon) Phil Waldron - Double Bass(Perth) Neill Duncan - Sax/percussion(Sydney) Andrew Ireland - double Bass (Sydney) Micheal Maars - Drums (Berlin) Adam Simmons - Sax(Melbourne) Chris Komorowski - Guitar(Sydney) David M. Grant - Double Bass(Sydney) Ashley Turner - Bass (Sydney) Brett Hirst - Bass(Sydney) Nelson Caxcais - Bass (Lisbon) Martin Scheffler - guitar (Berlin) Micha Maars - drums (Berlin) Ryan Donahue - Bass(Berlin) Tom Lehnert - drums (Luxembourg) Laurent Peckels - Bass (Luxembourg) Fred Barreto - Guitar (Luxembourg)
Influences: Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum, Fats Waller, Willie 'the Lion' Smith, James P. Johnson, Howling Wolf, Professor Longhair, Dr John, Charles Mingus, Leon Redbone, Fats Domino, Wynonie Harris, Memphis Slim, Louis Jordan, William Turk, Captain Beefheart, Carl Stalling, John Zorn, Frank Zappa, Primus, Charles Bukowski, Yogananda Paramahansa, Mezz Mezzrow, Ennio Moriccone, Hunter S. Thompson, Memphis Minnie, Lottie Lenya, Kurt Weil, Louis Armstrong, Tom Waits, Micheal Nyman, Igor Stravinski, Claude Debussy, Bob Dylan, Sun Ra, Ray Charles, Bessie Smith, Diamanda Galas, Jimmy Yancey, Champion Jack Dupree,Speckled Red, Roosevelt Sykes, Otis Spann, Pinetop Smith, Cow Cow Davernport, Huey Piano Smith
Sounds Like: A cantankerous mule towing a speakeasy full of drunken gorillas through a cymbal factory.
Record Label: MGM
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Pugsley Plays the Basememnt

I'm just back home after a couple of weeks of Queensland mayhem. I played both the Noosa Jazz Festival and the Big River Jazz Festival in Rockhampton. Both Festivals were a hoot. I played mostly solo ...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:02:00 GMT

whistles, bedpans, pistols and monkey skulls

I've just finished mastering my latest recording. It's called Chicago Typewriter. Named after one of the tracks: "I'm gonna write you a letter with my Chicago Typewriter. Of course a chicago typewrite...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:09:00 GMT

Satanic music

It's official, according to the elders of the uniting church in Fish Creek Victoria. My music is Satanic. I lived down there several years ago and worked on a farm milking cows and maintaining some ho...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:26:00 GMT