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Bruce Sexauer's
Current Musical Associations:6/2000
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This is a hot guitar trio featuring myself as vocalist and perpetrator
of most of the "heads". Accompanying me is Eric Schoenberg playing fingerstyle
acoustic guitar, and Larry Mersereau playing the string bass. We play in
the swing jazz style, with each of us getting a chance to improvise a chorus
or two on almost every tune. We have been rehearsing since spring of 1998,
having first got together to play at Acoustic Guitar Magazine's guitar
festival in San Rafael in the summer of '98. We did accomplish that goal,
and even got a couple of pictures in the magazine! Since then we get jobs
at galleries, libraries, private parties, and especially at events in the
nearby wine country.
Swing Society
This is really a society more than a band. It
is a list of about 25 players in the Marin County area. The jobs are apportioned
in a relatively democratic fashion, and you are rarely sure who you'll
being playing with. The general level of musicianship is quite high, and
I usually have a great time working with these folks. Many of the players
are of retirement age, and are more rooted in the swing tradition than
I am. In other words, it's a terrific opportunity for me to play with the
musicians who were actually there when this music was created. Most of
the work is in restaurant lounges as a piano trio (piano/bass/horn) were
we are rarely able to contain ourselves as much as we are expected to.
We play jazz.
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