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.
I see the spaced em dash all the time in American writing. For example, it's the house style at the New York Times.
October 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I see the spaced em dash all the time in American writing. For example, it's the house style at the New York Times.
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."
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.
It's understandable that these men are masked, as theirs is shameful, dishonorable work. The men pictured in this van are a greater threat to our country than the men they will round up in the Home Depot.
July 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
It's understandable that these men are masked, as theirs is shameful, dishonorable work. The men pictured in this van are a greater threat to our country than the men they will round up in the Home Depot.
If you're ever shopping for a milk crate for your bike, be aware that Amazon will give you a chance to see how the milk crate looks in your room. Truly a game changer.
June 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
If you're ever shopping for a milk crate for your bike, be aware that Amazon will give you a chance to see how the milk crate looks in your room. Truly a game changer.
This track is beyond belief.
June 9, 2025 at 5:20 AM
This track is beyond belief.
I just bought a new fat tire e-bike, so this will be the basis of my Entire Personality going forward.
May 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I just bought a new fat tire e-bike, so this will be the basis of my Entire Personality going forward.
Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt comparing embouchures.
May 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt comparing embouchures.
Because I was feeling like I didn't have enough time to take a hike today, I made a point of taking a hike today.
May 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Because I was feeling like I didn't have enough time to take a hike today, I made a point of taking a hike today.
Whatever is your level of esteem for the great Keith Jarrett, my level of esteem is that I wrote a poem for him a while back, and am posting it again today, on the occasion of his birthday.
May 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Whatever is your level of esteem for the great Keith Jarrett, my level of esteem is that I wrote a poem for him a while back, and am posting it again today, on the occasion of his birthday.
It's a lovely morning.
May 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It's a lovely morning.
My coolest idea is that creatives should be paid for their work and not have their creative output hoovered up by a plagiarism machine that pukes up shiny soulless averages of all the work it's stolen.
May 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
My coolest idea is that creatives should be paid for their work and not have their creative output hoovered up by a plagiarism machine that pukes up shiny soulless averages of all the work it's stolen.
So much love and gratefulness for this record.
April 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
So much love and gratefulness for this record.
Happy "Having A Coke With You" Day
According to the date he typed at the bottom of the page, Frank O'Hara wrote (or at least finished) one of my favorite love poems ever, Having A Coke With You, exactly 65 years ago today.
According to the date he typed at the bottom of the page, Frank O'Hara wrote (or at least finished) one of my favorite love poems ever, Having A Coke With You, exactly 65 years ago today.
April 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Happy "Having A Coke With You" Day
According to the date he typed at the bottom of the page, Frank O'Hara wrote (or at least finished) one of my favorite love poems ever, Having A Coke With You, exactly 65 years ago today.
According to the date he typed at the bottom of the page, Frank O'Hara wrote (or at least finished) one of my favorite love poems ever, Having A Coke With You, exactly 65 years ago today.
When lyricists give up.
March 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
When lyricists give up.
Gawd I love actual tangible print publications.
March 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Gawd I love actual tangible print publications.
Way Out West was recorded 68 years ago today. Featuring my favorite jazz delivery system of tenor/bass/drums, headed by that configuration's greatest practitioner, Sonny Rollins, I've probably listened to it about 1,000 times. So let's just say today we'll make it 1,001.
March 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Way Out West was recorded 68 years ago today. Featuring my favorite jazz delivery system of tenor/bass/drums, headed by that configuration's greatest practitioner, Sonny Rollins, I've probably listened to it about 1,000 times. So let's just say today we'll make it 1,001.
Twelve years ago today we came home to this crime scene. We were never able to identify the perpetrator: we couldn't lift usable fingerprints, and DNA analysis bafflingly suggested a sheep was involved.
February 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Twelve years ago today we came home to this crime scene. We were never able to identify the perpetrator: we couldn't lift usable fingerprints, and DNA analysis bafflingly suggested a sheep was involved.
If you asked me I would tell you that green is my favorite color, and yet…
February 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
If you asked me I would tell you that green is my favorite color, and yet…
First neighborhood hike in almost a month, due to a particularly wintry stretch. Glorious and clarifying, as usual.
February 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
First neighborhood hike in almost a month, due to a particularly wintry stretch. Glorious and clarifying, as usual.
Took this shot eight years ago today, on an unseasonably warm Sunday afternoon at the Albright Knox in Buffalo.
February 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Took this shot eight years ago today, on an unseasonably warm Sunday afternoon at the Albright Knox in Buffalo.
Gonna talk to the manager about the bad attitude of my checkout person today.
February 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gonna talk to the manager about the bad attitude of my checkout person today.