In support of the people of Ukraine, Cuarteto Saxofones de Banda Gozona plays the Ukrainian national anthem.

Shche Ne Vmerla Ukrainy

10 years ago I uploaded this track, featuring the lovely vocal part.
This version is just the saxophones (me playing all: 2 sopranos, 4 altos, 2 tenors, 2 baritones, 2 basses; recorded by Scott @ Gravel Voice), up close and personal. I did this arrangement from an orchestral score. I probably wrote for a little too much altissimo, but hey, here it is.

Shades of Parkland

Knoxville - saxophones (12) only

this Raging Maggots song is about a certain Seattle "burger joint". a lovely tone poem commemorating the "tartar shake", et al. a loose tune, different every time we play it. Denny Boyd & Dennis Bulis - guitar, Jeff Couch - bass, Don Pederson - drums, Fran Lukas & Scott Granlund - tenor saxes. this performance is from our "Basement Tapes" collection, set down on a chilly 12/20/16.

rehearsal 12/20/16

sickness

After about 13 minutes, I finally get to play high C  :)

Glazounov, Concerto in Eb, finale

My short lived experiment, Ensemble Klahhane.
Susie Telford, flute; Bev Setzer, clarinet; David Barnes, oboe; Scott Granlund, alto saxophone; Greg Powers, trombone.  Recorded at Speakeasy Backroom, about 1998.

Suite for 5 Winds - Walter S. Hartley

End of the evening, 12/27/18. We were jamming our way through a pretty sick version of "Sedan Delivery". Thought the fire had gone out, but low and behold we sparked up another jam. Dennis running the tremolocaster; me banging along in sync on my Strat through a wah; Jeff making all kinds of whoopdie w/ his bass kit; Fran blazing trails on sax; at one point Don came back to drum for a spell.

rehearsal 12/27/18

damn ya, burnt my biscuits

Raging Maggots
End of the evening jam, 3/14/19.
No speakers were harmed during the performance of this music.

rehearsal 3/14/19

calamari dreams

Janna Wächter sings, I play a "gospel" solo on bari. sax. From Curtis Taylor's production "Shades of Parkland".

I wish I was a Mole in the ground

Raging Maggots
12/27/18
Letting the mind wander.

i have many pencils to sharpen

Space Force Mail

The Raging Maggots participated in the 1989 Seattle Improvised Music Festival. The details I've forgotten, but I'd kept the cassette tape I was handed after the show. This is a pretty raw transfer, I didn't process the audio other than Normalize. You can hear, very near the end of the recording, the person running the tape machine turn down the recording volume as the Maggots reach "full squeal mode" (otherwise known as 'whursch'). Denny Boyd - guitar, Dennis Bulis - guitar, Scott Granlund - guitar, Donald Pederson - drums, Mark Harding ? - bass.

seattle improvised music festival 1989

raging maggots - seattle improvised music festival 1989

state of the nation
orange is the new yellow

home alone

i wanna be da prezident

This piece, originally for french horn, I heard played by my friend John Moore, on tenor sax. Cool, I thought. So what about doing it w/ a concert band? My friend Douglas Hjelm did the arrangement. I prepared the score and did 1 performance w/ WA Wind Symph. 2006
Conn "New Wonder I" tenor (1919), Rascher m.p.

Scott Granlund

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