Kelly Bucheger
@harderbop.bsky.social
Saxophonist, Composer, Writer. The Illicit Sextet, What Would Mingus Do?, Buffalo Jazz Composers Workshop. Wausau to Minneapolis to Buffalo to Boulder. James Carter ruined my life (look it up). Oxford comma enthusiast. I will Like your cat photos.
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Kelly Bucheger
@harderbop.bsky.social
· Nov 24
From my handwritten 1984 manuscript of Michael Brecker on Invitation. To be consistent with my other transcriptions on my blog I input this into Finale — but I think this handwritten version is quite lovely and readable, though my quarter note rests are pretty idiosyncratic.
Obviously if I don't win tonight's billion-dollar-plus Powerball jackpot I will remove some things from my Amazon cart.
December 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Obviously if I don't win tonight's billion-dollar-plus Powerball jackpot I will remove some things from my Amazon cart.
Pretty cynical to schedule the solstice right around Christmas time, to try to glom on to some of the hype and good vibes regarding Christmas.
December 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Pretty cynical to schedule the solstice right around Christmas time, to try to glom on to some of the hype and good vibes regarding Christmas.
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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New laws of robotics:
-The supply of funding shall not be interrupted
-Robots cannot harm a human unless tricked a lil bit
-Do not examine the accounting
-Sam Altman is not liable for damages
-If a human is replaced by a robot they must be rehired for the position within 12 months at a lower rate
-The supply of funding shall not be interrupted
-Robots cannot harm a human unless tricked a lil bit
-Do not examine the accounting
-Sam Altman is not liable for damages
-If a human is replaced by a robot they must be rehired for the position within 12 months at a lower rate
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
New laws of robotics:
-The supply of funding shall not be interrupted
-Robots cannot harm a human unless tricked a lil bit
-Do not examine the accounting
-Sam Altman is not liable for damages
-If a human is replaced by a robot they must be rehired for the position within 12 months at a lower rate
-The supply of funding shall not be interrupted
-Robots cannot harm a human unless tricked a lil bit
-Do not examine the accounting
-Sam Altman is not liable for damages
-If a human is replaced by a robot they must be rehired for the position within 12 months at a lower rate
Probably should squeak this in here, before 2025 is fully spent, that this year marks my 35th year as an award-winning composer — this was my first award and the one that affirmed to me I was on the right track.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Probably should squeak this in here, before 2025 is fully spent, that this year marks my 35th year as an award-winning composer — this was my first award and the one that affirmed to me I was on the right track.
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I'm the kind of person who will get all tingly when he sees a hyphen AND en dashes AND an em dash together in a single paragraph in a mainstream publication, ESPECIALLY when the en dashes are used in my favorite deployment, replacing hyphens in a compound adjective that includes two-word compounds.
December 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I'm the kind of person who will get all tingly when he sees a hyphen AND en dashes AND an em dash together in a single paragraph in a mainstream publication, ESPECIALLY when the en dashes are used in my favorite deployment, replacing hyphens in a compound adjective that includes two-word compounds.
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Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year.
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
"The girl in Steely Dan's 'Hey Nineteen' would be 64 today" I shout into my empty townhouse while pushing my walker, trying to find my reading glasses.
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"The girl in Steely Dan's 'Hey Nineteen' would be 64 today" I shout into my empty townhouse while pushing my walker, trying to find my reading glasses.
Being very stoned and trying to tell someone I'm going to "Refill my water bottle" but saying by mistake "Rebound my water biffle," I still think about that a lot.
October 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Being very stoned and trying to tell someone I'm going to "Refill my water bottle" but saying by mistake "Rebound my water biffle," I still think about that a lot.
One of my prettiest tunes, recorded 14 years ago today in the amazing recording facilities at Eastman School of Music, featuring the legendary baritone saxophonist Bruce Johnstone as soloist.
A Simple Wish, by Kelly Bucheger
from the album House of Relics
kellybucheger.bandcamp.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
One of my prettiest tunes, recorded 14 years ago today in the amazing recording facilities at Eastman School of Music, featuring the legendary baritone saxophonist Bruce Johnstone as soloist.
Reposted by Kelly Bucheger
We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
I've said forever that based on my experience Buffalo is the easternmost Midwestern city, so I endorse this map!
This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.
October 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I've said forever that based on my experience Buffalo is the easternmost Midwestern city, so I endorse this map!
Eight years ago today working with music students at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts.
October 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Eight years ago today working with music students at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts.
L'Escale de Lyon, Paris, 2009.
October 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
L'Escale de Lyon, Paris, 2009.
Feel so dumb that I missed "labializing" in yesterday's Spelling Bee, considering that I use it all the time in one of my catchphrases: "There you go, labializing again."
October 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Feel so dumb that I missed "labializing" in yesterday's Spelling Bee, considering that I use it all the time in one of my catchphrases: "There you go, labializing again."
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“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."
-Anne Frank
-Anne Frank
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
www.cnn.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."
-Anne Frank
-Anne Frank
Unfortunately, at least so far, all the folks you might have hoped would've been raptured still seem to be here.
September 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Unfortunately, at least so far, all the folks you might have hoped would've been raptured still seem to be here.
The clouds clouded provocatively for yesterday's Last Bike Ride Of The Summer™, a 36-mile jaunt punctuated midway by the excellent beer and grub at Avery Brewing.
September 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The clouds clouded provocatively for yesterday's Last Bike Ride Of The Summer™, a 36-mile jaunt punctuated midway by the excellent beer and grub at Avery Brewing.
I have not eaten the plums that were in the icebox.
I have no idea how they were.
I want to speak to my attorney.
I have no idea how they were.
I want to speak to my attorney.
September 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I have not eaten the plums that were in the icebox.
I have no idea how they were.
I want to speak to my attorney.
I have no idea how they were.
I want to speak to my attorney.
I really appreciate that The Rapture™ was scheduled so that we could all at least enjoy one last Earth Wind & Fire Day together.
September 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I really appreciate that The Rapture™ was scheduled so that we could all at least enjoy one last Earth Wind & Fire Day together.
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I stand with my Brothers and Sisters in the Republican Party, along with MAGA Americans, Evangelicals, and Conservatives in support of today's school shooting in Minneapolis.
August 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I stand with my Brothers and Sisters in the Republican Party, along with MAGA Americans, Evangelicals, and Conservatives in support of today's school shooting in Minneapolis.
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At least Wafer Bucket hasn't caved on their rebranding
August 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
At least Wafer Bucket hasn't caved on their rebranding