First Name

Christopher

AIM/Yahoo/MSN

math2art@aol.com

College/University:

Penn State

I am here for:

Gigs, Meet Players, Networking

Whom I want to meet:

Musicians who want to play - I write and lead my own groups plus I play as a sideman and can get a horn section together and write parts plus I welcome people who want to work in more of a collective mode rather than as a leader or a sideman.

Employment Status

Employed

Occupation:

Math Professor/Musician

Employer:

Penn State

About Me:

coming soon

Musical Background & Experience:

Old school education - Jaki Byard, Ronnie Burrage, Jeremy Bacon, Jimmy Ponder, Nelson Harrison and every other good player who has taught me about music and encouraged me to do my own thing.

Website:

http://www.myspace.com/drchrisbyrne

Why I love jazz:

sharing the human spirit

Music:

bootleg byrne coming to cd baby soon

Books:

eric fromm - the art of loving
julian jaynes - the origins of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind
carl jung - man and his symbols
joseph campbell - hero of a thousand faces
herman hesse - siddhartha

Television:

no

Movies:

bullworth, bonfire of the vanities, the player, body shots, high society, vera, taxi blues, moscow does not believe in tears, city of women, round midnight, all spike lee, all tom hanks, the unbearable lightness of being, last of the mohicans