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Brent

About Me

I am a professional musician, trombonist, arranger, composer. I teach at Indiana University in Bloomington (Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Arranging) and am a founding member of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra in Washington, DC. In 1994, Mark Buselli and I started the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra (check out our Myspace page!) which is still going strong. I am very lucky to have the greatest friends a guy could have so enjoy spending time with them. Very liberal, I follow politics closely, love to read, travel, cook, watch great films, and stay active physically. I have aquired three cats who have managed to greatly disarm me and as a result have found themselves spoiled rotten. If you have somehow read this far, I am quite flattered and would happily tell you more if you were to ask.

My Interests

Music:

Toru Takemitsu, Alban Berg, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Bela Bartok, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Louis Armstrong, Frank Glover, Mark Turner, Kurt Rosenwinkle, Dave Holland, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Gil Evans, Bill Holman, Clare Fischer

Movies:

The Passion of Joan of Ark (Carl Theador Dreyer), Ran, Rashomon, Ivan The Terrible, Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, Brief Encounter, The Conversation, The Best Years Of Our Lives, Millers Crossing, Fargo, Blood Simple, The Big Lebowski, Double Indemnity, Network, Secretary, Mystery Train, Coffee and Cigarettes, Happiness, Palindromes, Night Of The Living Dead, Dawn Of The Dead, Day Of The Dead, Shawn Of The Dead....a small sampling that should give you a good idea of my tastes

Television:

CNN, Daily Show, Colbert Report, News Hour with Jim Leher, Food Network, Turner Classic Movies, History Channel

Books:

Anything by: Chekhov, Dickens,Twain (Letters From The Earth!!) , Vonnegut (Trout), Poe, Chandler, Darwin, Steinbeck, Salinger, Bellow, Ellison, cummings, Millay, Sexton Langston Hughes, Neruda, Paz.

Heroes:

See MUSIC...also: Terry Gross, Diane Rehm, Noam Chomsky, Bill and Hillary, Al Franken, David Baker, Joe Wilder, Lou Dobbs, Jon Stewart, peacemongers in general, Pap Jammers