Saxophonist playing under green and blue stage light

Andy Jarcho

Andy Jarcho playing saxophone under blue stage light

“Hello, World!

I’m Andy; I play sax.

I was born and raised in New York City.

I dropped out of Harvard after six weeks to play music for a living. Since playing music is a lousy way to make a living, I worked part-time at unskilled laboring jobs, doing everything from washing dishes to cleaning floors to setting up tombstones.

It turned out that I have treatment-resistant major depression; music and coffee are the two most effective short-term remedies for that. 

I love all styles of music that I have heard so far, except for the stuff that is mainly played in corporate elevators. If a musician won’t at least try to understand a genre, they are disrespecting all their fellow carbon units who love it. I’m in a growth stage right now: listening to everything, learning as much as I can, and making my seventies my best decade so far.

The Struggle Bus is a very special place. Music is love; The Bus is an environment where people are free to find that music within themselves, and express it through cooperation.

I’m the proud parent of two, great-grandparent of four, and have a beautiful step-great-grandson also.”

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