The Mizar 5ive

We cover the Steely Dan songbook, in a tight-groove shambles that stays true-to-form and lays it right down. Dig!

We come from varied and storied pasts to congregate on the far out waypost known as The Mizar Five. Our One Unifying Principle: A deep history of admiration, consternation, and supplication to the jazz-infused late 20th century sounds of Steely Dan. Are you on the margins? Are you a philanderer? A lout? An unobtainable woman? A bookkeeper’s son? Do you detect the El Supremo? Do you like to take a yo-yo for a ride? We get it. We know you and love you. Come nearer to us and together we will share the poison wine and watch the sun go brown.

We have studied and shedded the wood in squalid hovels of all sorts, be they the hallowed halls of music schools, church basements, derelict warehouses, or what have you. We've been through it. Have you?

The University of Oregon Jazz Band
Jesus Presley
Pass The Butter
The Kathy Walker Band
The Berklee School of Music
The Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Willamette University Big Band
Sugarboom
Sons and Lovers
Joe Marcinkiewicz's TV Jazz Big Band
Conjunto Alegre
The Get Me Downs
The Guitar Institute of Technology
Lake Oswego Big Band 
The Justin Stark Band
Sounds Like Love