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I Do It For Your Love
Misty
Solo guitar. One quick and dirty take, recorded with the windows open.
posted on Jul 27, 2008 - View this threadAttack of the Pasta Party Pirates
An original song by my old band, Selected Letters. Alto Sax, Oboe, Violin, Guitar, Bass, Drums, and a good mix of tight arrangement and improvisation. I miss this band a lot, but it was great while it lasted.
posted on Jun 26, 2008 - View this threadWave
When I Fall In Love
I started singing back when I was darn near tone deaf and had the breath control of someone recovering from a pool accident. I think I've gotten better, so I'd like people who don't know me to have a listen.
posted on Apr 7, 2008 - View this threadpiltdown part 7
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And now for something completely different... this is a somewhat experimental instrumental track featuring pulsing soft noise, soft organs and a distorted xylophone, fake sitar, and off-key distant "singing."
posted on Jan 24, 2008 - View this threadMisty
Some jazz noodling on that classic standard
Misty. My friend Steph on the alto sax, me on the piano.
posted on Jan 10, 2008 - View this threadBreaking the Rules (Rough Cut)
Country/jazz. acapella. An open letter to Amy Winehouse. Super Mario Galaxy.
posted on Jan 5, 2008 - View this threadOriginal Recipe
This is a recording from Ground Zero in Troy, NY. I played a solo show for about 50ish people and a stuffed pony.
posted on Dec 28, 2007 - View this threadHopeful Hopeful
A big ol' composition kind of song. Just a little bit like "post-rock" I guess. As
before but this time with multiple takes, stereo, and fun little stuff scattered all around. It's also my first project using Logic Pro, which seems to rock
posted on Oct 2, 2007 - View this threadworkshop
Rehearsals : three tunes that we (a big band) were to play on stage in a small jazz festival in Millau, Aveyron, southern France.
posted on Jul 23, 2007 - View this threadcould of
kinda jazzy, kinda not. this is where my highschool extra curricular activities run into my highschool punk band...recorded alone. fake drums. some mixxing creds go to my lil drummer
bro...(
family link!)
posted on Jun 3, 2007 - View this threadThe Hoarse Whisperer (Parts 1-4)
Got together with a friend a while back to jam, and we ended up deciding to try and record something for the first time. Our goal of creating music failed. Thus the project Tverrbjelker was born.
posted on May 26, 2007 - View this threadBlackout (John Scofield cover)
Just me and my friends making music in the basement. This is a live studio cover of John Scofield's Blackout.
posted on May 21, 2007 - View this threadsatin doll
Another excerpt of a previous too long post. Tired of playing over improvised and random changes, I brought the Ellington tune to Olivier. I played the rhythm track, he played the melody, then I managed to play a solo. Hope you like it.
posted on May 15, 2007 - View this thread"All The Things You Are," solo acoustic guitar
My favorite jazz standard, done as a solo acoustic guitar piece. Apologies for the audio clipping at 2:02.
(For some reason, the MeFi audio preview is playing it in a lower key and slightly slower; I'm not sure how to fix this, so I'll leave it as is.)
posted on May 6, 2007 - View this threadreal book
Hi, This is not what you can call a song : rather a collection of recordings pasted together. As in the Real Book, some standards are included. But this track also includes sounds taken from the real world, like a street scene, or rehearsals. It is a deliberate effort to try to match apparently unrelated recordings, from different sources. The Real Book, paradoxically, features charts for some idealistic land. Here, I wanted to use sounds both from the inside (music) and from the outside (raw field recordings) to see how ironically they are related and to provide some contrast. What you're about to hear : a saxophone playing Don Quichotte, a late night Dulcinea, two versions of a standard, and guitar comments.
posted on May 6, 2007 - View this threadCaravan (rehearsal)
The Smoke Alarm Sessions, cont'd.
I've been learning Caravan. I love the way Ellington did it a lot. Nowadays so many people play it very straight ahead, & I think that gets boring. So we experimented. At first Barry tried to put a funk beat behind it, but I'm not sure about it. On the second chorus I was thinking that since I've been to Egypt I should use that as inspiration to experiment with different melodies. I think in the future I'll probably take that a lot further, I kind of liked the feel. So, we'll see.
posted on Apr 19, 2007 - View this threadIf I Had You
4/10/07 rehearsal recording in LA. Trying out some new repertoire... well, new for
me. This adorably sweet little
song was written in 1928. I decided not to put any kind of modern spin on it, but to just sing it slow and straight.
(Guitar by the always adorable Barry Zweig.)
posted on Apr 12, 2007 - View this threadDon't Go To Strangers (piano/vocal rehearsal)
After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It (piano/vocal)
Love Me or Leave Me (bass/vocal)
Ok, so here's my spin on another old song.
This Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn composition was first featured in Florenz Zeigfield's 1928 Broadway musical Whoopee, starring Eddie Cantor & Ruth Etting, who took the song to #2 on the charts. In 1955, Doris Day starred in a biographical movie about Etting called "Love Me or Leave Me" & her updated rendition became a giant hit. Flash forward to 1967... Nina Simone turned this hokey old Ziegfeld tune into a completely reworked masterpiece of piano & voice (download link is at bottom). My own version (heard best live, I think) is definitely inspired by Nina's, but it could never compare to hers -- I just do my own thing & try to make it my own a bit. It's a fun song to do... audiences seem to love it. Incredible basswork once again provided by bass God Chris Conner.
posted on Jan 20, 2007 - View this threadYou've Changed (guitar/vocal)
This is a very rough recording
(of quite possibly my favorite ballad ever) from a rehearsal in LA a year or so ago. I was working on possible CD repertoire with jazz
guitarist extraordinaire, the oh-so-adorable
Mr. Barry Zweig.
(Written in 1942 by Bill Carey & Carl Fischer, You've Changed has been beautifully recorded by Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Nancy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole, Kay Starr, Diana Ross, Charlie Shavers & Eva Cassidy, among others.)
posted on Jan 17, 2007 - View this threadCoffee Time! (a capella)
This song was originally written in 1945 by
Lennie Hayton for the soundtrack of the Minnelli/Astaire MGM musical
Yolanda & the Thief. Since I just started drinking my beloved morning latte again after giving it up for 2-3 months, it felt appropriate to do a little joyful a capella
singing to the world for no real reason whatsoever.
Oh, if only I could set up a 5 piece band in my office... sigh.
posted on Jan 15, 2007 - View this threadCry Me A River
Happy Sunday, hive mind! Well, I haven't been performing jazz much since moving to the Bay area. I'll confess, I've missed my musicians in LA
(see song title) & just haven't found my niche/comfort zone up here yet. For a while, I was commuting down South to work on a CD but it got to be too difficult... so my musical life has been in limbo & this year I REALLY hope to change that. If you folks say you'd like to hear more mp3s, I do have some. And hey... if there's someone out there who would seriously like to collaborate with
(or hire) this
chick singer... I'm all ears and open to advice. I also take requests! :)
I miss singing for people...
(Incredible basswork courtesy of the fab-u-lous Chris Conner, my dear friend)
posted on Jan 14, 2007 - View this threadThe Dark Room
I have been composing this piece for quite some time now and I am happy with the current result uploaded here. It's a fun, jazzy, bopping track with overdriven drums, horns, and a surprise guest named "Flute". Enjoy.
posted on Jan 12, 2007 - View this threadGaia - Praxis - 02 - Mainframe
BlatantSelfPromotionFilter: This is the second track of my band's debut album. The best description I can give is that it's a jazzy flavor of progressive metal. Please enjoy. www.gaiamusic.net to hear more.
posted on Jan 12, 2007 - View this threadClint Eastwood Jazz
Not really jazz, not really anything Clint would like. But it does blend the Spighetti Western sound with a mellow jazz bass. It's just for fun, I hope you like it.
posted on Jan 7, 2007 - View this threadSmackbillie
I was in Amsterdam in 1995 and found an old Billie Holiday bootleg CD. Years later I found an interesting sample on there and imported it into the totally awesome audio program....SoundEdit16. Stretched it, pulled it, squished it, doubled it and looped it. This is the end result in all of its 16bit glory. I originally released this under the name Skycraft. By "release" I mean I burned 10 copies in 1999 and gave it to Ray at The Quaker Goes Deaf in Chicago and a bunch of friends. 10 Blank CDs cost a lot back then.
posted on Dec 11, 2006 - View this threadheir to the would-have-beens
i just finished moving my pile of equipment from the garage into the house for winter, and to celebrate i did a special mix of the latest song from the project mentioned
here to share with y'all.
posted on Oct 25, 2006 - View this threadHeat Me Up!
Ljova would love to see your interpretive dance of this. (Please post YouTube links!)
posted on Oct 13, 2006 - View this threadFeed Off
Another song by my ex-band, again with me on trumpet. Mellow soul/funk.
posted on Sep 19, 2006 - View this threadSpacetalk
A Van Winkle side project, Kurt Kostokos on guitar and drums, and Dave Appelbaum on keyboards. Definately of an exploratory sonic nature...
posted on Sep 13, 2006 - View this threadMeat And Crackers
Me on keyboards with Van Winkle (bass, drums, electric guitar)
posted on Sep 11, 2006 - View this threadThey Felt Like You
Autumn Fell
Blues Lounge Rock - from my band's 2006 demo.
posted on Jul 19, 2006 - View this threadImpossible Edge
Done when I was at school a couple of years ago and had access to players. That's me on flute and bass (not at the same time–haven't mastered that one yet!).
posted on Jul 15, 2006 - View this threadHillbilly Disco
This is just an improv jam from a rehearsal with my old band. It's a little bit funky, a little jazzy. Overall it's just a really fun groove IMO. The recording quality is not the greatest but it's not too bad. It features me on drums, my buddy Dan on guitar and another guy named Jonathan on keys.
Enjoy.
posted on Jul 2, 2006 - View this threadSlathered
Scarlet Blues
I originally wrote this for two purposes: my A Level Music, and the soundtrack for a short detective film I was making at the time. It is performed by a local youth big band and features
Lotto on lead trumpet. I'm playing bass clarinet in there somewhere, prizes if you can hear it.
posted on Jun 30, 2006 - View this threadShamone
Funky soul-inspired song from a 10-piece North London band sadly no longer in existence. Trumpet = Lotto!
posted on Jun 30, 2006 - View this thread
