Brian Duncan

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Army Ground Forces Band – Made In America

April 26th, 2013

 

More to Live For

March 3rd, 2013

Recently, I watched a documentary More to Live For which shared the story of three unrelated men battling blood cancer.  One of them was Michael Brecker, a famous jazz saxophone player that I had listened to for many years.  I learned about the struggle these men endured trying to find a bone marrow donor.  The problem was the donor registry was relatively small and not many people knew about it.  Unfortunately, Michael Brecker was unable to find an exact match and we lost him in January 2007.

After watching the film, I decided I had to do my part and get on the registry.  If I could save a life just by donating my bone marrow then I had to do it.  Help spread the word! 

You can register here: www.deletebloodcancer.org/register/ or http://marrow.org/Join/Join_Now/Join_Now.aspx

 


Michael Brecker – Delta City Blues – 1998

 

Peace

April 8th, 2012

I was unpacking some more boxes and found my old MiniDisc recorder and several recordings from 2000-2004. Some were solo and sax quartet recordings I made myself in my barracks room at Ft Bragg and some were live recordings. I found a couple discs of Orquesta Ideal, the salsa band I played in as well as a few from the 82D Airborne Division Band in Iraq in December 2003.

This particular recording is a tune written by Horace Silver called Peace. I rarely play soprano but I was probably using it for a certain gig around the time I recorded it. I played the melody and then added a harmony line after. Despite the poor quality of many of these recordings, I decided to still share them for those who care to listen. Both my recording gear and my playing ability are much better these days so I hope to continue recording more.

Enjoy!

 

BrianDuncan.net

November 29th, 2009

I decided create a website to feature my music and photos as well as other random thoughts that cross my mind.