There have been many in the Bands of Buford - such legends as Ben Klingberg, Ben Hirson, Ben Rogerson, Agent Jay, Jay Hackett, Glen Hackett, Glen Saunders, Dave Hahn, Dave Hillyard, Dan Jesselson, Tom McGee, Colin Stetson, Victor Rice, Victor Axelrod...
Influences
Joe Bowie and Defunkt, Rico Rodriguez, George Lewis, Don Drummond, Fred Wesley, Jack Teagarten, Roswell Rudd - and on the home front, Clark Gayton, Art Baron, Vinnie Nobile, Rick "Chunk" Falkner...
The Specials, The Skatalites, Captain Beefheart, Gracan Moncur III, Sun Ra, Morphine, Pig Bag, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Fela, Eric B. and Rakim, Sly and Robbie, Fishbone opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers...
Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Anthony Burgess, Bill Bryson, Phillip K. Dick...
Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, James Rosenquist
Sounds Like
Heaven with a beer in your hand, the perfect venue where drinks are good and inexpensive, the sound is crystal clear, and the air is freshened by the breeze coming in from the evening sea. The funnest party where you can dance any way you wish, and nobody would ever care to be critical.
I was walking home down 7th Ave in the slope from work earlier today, and I swear I think I saw you pass me on the street, but by the time my tired tush turned around to double check, like that - poof! - you were gone.
Did I hallucinate that?
And, well, howdy do regardless! Hope alls well with ya!
héhéhé i hope you re fine... i want to eat a pizza sing to jam session and walk in the street ....with my green dress...;):( grrr i want to go NEW YORK :)
Yep, c'est moi! Due to weird roller derby name registration 'stuff, Ive had to reinvent myself as the unknown love child of Minne Pearl and Merle Haggard. Works for me!
And I LOVE your headline right now. Pleeaaaase weather fairies, turn off the cold! Enuff z Nuff. Heh.
THE BAD THING IS THAT I HAVEN"T TALK TO YOU IN A WHILE...THE GOOD THING IS THAT IAM TALKING TO YOU NOW,, WHICH MEANS THAT I REMEMBER YOU...AND BELIEVE ME WHEN I TELL YOU THAT I ONLY REMEMBER THE GOOD PEOPLE...BUUFOORRDDD...
Buford, well that would be me. Here I go, writing my own bio. Okay, well I am a trombonist-songwriter, novelist, all-around creative guy. Would it be that I get rich off this stuff, I'm sure that I'd handle the wealth in a tasteful manner. In the interim, I'll just keep on movin', don't stop, no... (I've always liked that song for some reason). I live in New York City, and do a bit of traveling, as you can see by the schedule. I enjoy knowing the world on a first-hand basis, rather than watching it on TV. The more I see, the better I feel about things. This has allowed me to be of the opinion that all people are all the same, no matter where you go - everyone is equally liberal, conservative, xenophobic, open, all of it. You can't focus on one group of people and say that "They are all the same...", because it isn't just them. It is us. WE are all the same. So, let's just get on with it and enjoy life, please.
