Name: Functional by kellybucheger
Duration: 4 min 19 s
Description: Kelly Bucheger, alto saxophone; Marc Cousins, bass; Doug Dreishpoon, drums.

The Buffalo Improvisers Orchestra plays the Buffalo River Fest Park on Sept. 12, 2013. See http://www.hallwalls.org/music/5385.html for line up and complete description. Part 1 of 2.

BIO RiverFest 130912 Part I

Selected songs from our new album 'Life' - OUT NOW

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THE GOVT. KNOWS

Spring Is Here 2nd Ruff

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

The Case for Reparations - The Atlantic - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Through the power of freedom and exploration of Jazz, Primal Overdrive expresses emotions present in each of us. It does so by way of  improvisation that borders on free form with a few sign posts to guide the way. The perceptions created by the music are diverse, yet those perceptions all stem from a common element, emotion. We believe that musical interaction and expression, we may better understand ourselves. Featured at Hallwalls, Orlando Norman -WBFO Radio-Live-Featured as an international Jazz group.

Primal Overdrive

Dave Liebman Clinic IAJE 2004 Recording produced by Zach Schwartz / On Site Recording Productions

An Overview Of A Chromatic Approach To Melody Harmony - Dave Liebman.MP3

Kelly Bucheger, alto saxophone; Marc Cousins, bass; Doug Dreishpoon, drums.

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Bridging genres from hard bop to free, award-winning saxophonist and composer Kelly Bucheger has performed in the U.S. and Europe with luminaries across the jazz spectrum, from James Carter and John Zorn to Don Menza, Bill Watrous, Bobby Shew, and Louie Bellson. 

His writings on jazz have reached a worldwide audience; his article James Carter Ruined My Life was translated and published in French and Dutch, and featured on vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater’s NPR program JazzSet. Kelly’s blog Harder Bop was cited on NPR’s A Blog Supreme. 

As a composer, he’s been honored by the West Bank School of Music (Minneapolis) Jazz Composers Competition, and the Julius Hemphill Composition Awards, sponsored by the Jazz Composers Alliance in Boston. 

Kelly has performed at a number of European jazz festivals, including the Warsaw Jazz Jamboree, the Gehrden Jazztäge, and most recently at the Altitude Jazz Festival in Briançon, France. 

The Buffalo News called Kelly's new CD, House of Relics, "present-day jazz of the highest order," and Buffalo Spree magazine called it "the best local release of the year." Kelly's group "What Would Mingus Do?" was named "Best Local Music Act of 2013" by Buffalo Spree.

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