About 32nd Street Jazz
Members
Michael Wilson
alto & baritone saxophones, flute
Mike studies chimpanzees and human evolution in his day job at the University of Minnesota. He played alto and tenor sax in various groups through college, but started searching for more portable instruments when he began doing fieldwork in Africa, eventually accumulating a clarinet, soprano sax and flute. He previously played with the JD Express, The Jazz Freeloaders, The Demonic Males and The Prospectors.
Mona Wong
soprano, alto & tenor saxophones
Mona has performed in the Twin Cities since the ’90s in an original R&B funk band, The Curbfeelers, winning a MN Music award for Best R&B group, opening for the Ohio Players, Average White Band and After 7. She has performed with the Violent Femmes as member of the Horns of Dilemma. Mona studied with Joe Viola at Berklee College of Music. Her musical influences include Phil Woods, Art Pepper, Gerald Albright and Ella Fitzgerald.
Scott Anderson
electric basses, keyboards, bass clarinet
Scott has been obsessed with audio recording since he received his first cassette recorder at age 7. While working towards his B.A. in music history, he played clarinet and saxes in band, jazz band and musical theater. After college his professional path veered into web technology, but he continued making music, playing bass in several rock bands in Minneapolis and Atlanta and honing his audio production skills.
Brandon Sisneroz
drums & percussion
Brandon grew up in Southern California and toured the country as a musician before settling in Minneapolis in the 2000s. When he’s not building stage sets, reconfiguring climbing walls, fabricating percussion instruments, making wine or pursuing one of his other many and diverse interests, Brandon is behind the kit for 32nd Street Jazz, bringing a polyrhythmic fluidity to the drums that goes well beyond simply keeping time.
Selected Repertoire
Original Tunes
- Blueprints
- Scott Anderson
- Dark Matter
- Michael Wilson
- Delayed Resolutions
- Scott Anderson
- Funk 2 School
- Scott Anderson
- Gomphothere
- Michael Wilson
- Monkfish Blues
- Scott Anderson
- Noxious Throne
- Theo Wilson
- Paris Troyka
- Michael Wilson
- Poor Sephanie
- Michael Wilson
- Rhymes & Missing Meters
- Scott Anderson
- Telephone
- Michael Wilson
- Texting Miss Reed
- Scott Anderson
- Torpor Tantrum
- Michael Wilson
- Voice Mail
- Michael Wilson
- When I Look Back
- Michael Wilson
Jazz Standards
- Afro Blue
- Mongo Santamaria
- All Blues
- Miles Davis
- Black Coffee
Webster/Burke - Blue Bossa
- Kenny Dorham
- Bongo Beep
- Charlie Parker
- Chameleon
- Herbie Hancock
- Cheese Cake
- Dexter Gordon
- Children of the Night
Wayne Shorter - El Gaucho
- Wayne Shorter
- Equinox
John Coltrane - Footprints
- Wayne Shorter
- Free for All
- Wayne Shorter
- Grazing in the Grass
Philemon Hou - Invitation
- Bronisław Kaper
- Linus and Lucy
Vince Guaraldi - Lucky Southern
- Keith Jarrett
- My Little Suede Shoes
- Charlie Parker
- Nica’s Dream
- Horace Silver
- A Night in Tunisia
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Nutville
Horace Silver - ‘Round Midnight
Thelonious Monk - The Sidewinder
- Lee Morgan
- Strasbourg-St. Denis
Roy Hargrove - Summertime
- George Gershwin
“Non-Standards”
(Rock, blues, country & mashup arrangements)
- Bikini Island
- Goblin
- Blue Monkee
- arr. Michael Wilson
- Careless Stepchild
- arr. Michael Wilson
- Fly by Night
Geddy Lee/Neil Peart - Folsom Prison Blues
- Johnny Cash
- Get Funky (with Juice)
arr. Scott Anderson - I Got Phylogeny
- arr. Michael Wilson
- It Does Not Mean a Thing
arr. Michael Wilson - Moontage
- arr. Scott Anderson
- The Morning Fog
Kate Bush - My Patronus
arr. Michael Wilson - Pinball Number Count
- Walt Kraemer
- Purple Rain
- Prince
- Riders on the Storm
The Doors - Rooster
- Alice in Chains
- Sara Smile
- Daryl Hall/John Oates
- Song for Rikki
- arr. Scott Anderson
- Summer Spring
- arr. Scott Anderson
- Take Everything: Impossible Five
- arr. Scott Anderson
- Tomorrow Never Knows
- John Lennon/Paul McCartney
- Use Me
Bill Withers - We’ve Only Just Begun
The Carpenters - You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me
Smokey Robinson