Dr. Teeth, Janice, Sgt. Floyd Pepper, Zoot, and Animal.
Influences
Ornette, Jimi, Trane, Dolphy, Albert Ayler, Fela, Mulatu, Miles, Mingus, Coleman Hawkins, Paul Hartsaw and the Desiring Machines, Clifton Hyde, James Brown, Skerik, Grateful Dead, Wayne Shorter, Eddie Harris, Sun Ra, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, The Talking Heads, The Portal, Toots and the Maytals, Peter Tosh, Maceo Parker, King Curtis, Larry Young, Funkadelic, R.R.Kirk, to name a fraction
Joe plays saxophones (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone), flute, bass clarinet, percussion, keys, and other things.
Joe has performed, recorded, or jammed with: Hard Proof Afrobeat, Mikado, partyboobytrap, Buscando El Monte Afro-Cuban Percussion Ensemble, Ocote Soul Sounds, Concentric, The Portal & Groovin Ground, Louis Landry, Jabarvy, The Katrina Jazz Quartet, Ari Dvorin, Joe McPhee, Clifton Hyde - Kevin Garcia- Paul Hartsaw, Moving Matter, Alex Coke, Carl Smith/ECFA, Tin Pan, Gato Loco/ Coconino, The Baritone Sax Army, Slaughter Capacity Tentet, Ghandaia, The Chicago Afrobeat Project, Drop Trio, MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, and many other sit-ins, gigs and collaborations.
JFJO returns to The Parish Room in Austin,TX on Sat. March 28th with the new quartet lineup, in support of 'Winterwood' - the new studio album available as FREE download at www.jfjo.com!
Ho Joe, your sax, flute, clarinet and other works are very impressive! Thanks for your kind invite - Black Widow will be back with a NEW studio album this year. Paolo "Apollo" Negri - www. myspace. com/hammondfunk - will play keyboards on the project. Before that you can order this Black Widow DVD from http://www. mysticrecords. co. uk or contact your local record shop! This release is available now worldwide!
Join local non-profits Villa Esperanza and Posada Esperanza in a charity soccer tournament to raise money for early childhood education in Ecuador and a home for immigrant women and children here in Austin. For more information, visit http://villa-esperanza. org Or, become our friend at http://www. myspace. com/villa_esperanza
Hey Joe! Buscando is looking forward to opening the little box with ya--that's the little box in our soul where the Afro-Cuban jazz carnival lives. Have a good shower.
