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Randy McKean

McKean leads or co-leads several bands, including the chamber jazz quartet Bristle, the African-trance ensemble Tumble, the saxophone quartet Goggle, the ecstatic sax/drums duo Pac and Seep, and the acoustic-electronics duo The Gargantius Effect. He is a long-time member of Beaucoup Chapeaux, David Dvorin’s Flounder, Ludi Hinrichs’ Chickenbonz, and appears regularly with guitarist John Girton and singer/songwriter Sands Hall. McKean’s releases include the CDs Wild Horsey Ride, Tumble’s Waves and Music for Trio (Bandcamp), Bristle’s Future(s) Now(s) (Queen Bee) and Bulletproof (Edgetone), So Dig This Big Crux (Rastascan), the Great Circle Saxophone Quartet’s Child King Dictator Fool (New World), and the electronic releases Pac and Seep Live at Earthtone (Bandcamp) and Gargantius Effect +1+2+3 (w/Han-earl Park, Gino Robair & Scott Looney). He studied with trumpeter Paul Smoker and composers Anthony Braxton and David Rosenboom. He has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, and he and his family have called Grass Valley, California home since 2002. His radio show The Outpost aired on Nevada City’s KVMR from 2007 to 2012.

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Waves

Cure-All Records
2019

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So Dig This Big Crux

Verve Records
1992

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