So happy to play with the Ball State Jazz Ensemble as a guest artist in collaboration with Ableton! The music software company hosted several masterclasses throughout the day and we finished the thing off with big band concert featuring music made using their Push 2 controller. For this concert I built a motorized percussion setup... Continue Reading →
Solo Performance: Motorized Percussion, Trumpet and Digitakt
-- Solo ambient performance setup featuring sound sculpture, trumpet, digitakt, op-1, sp404 and ableton live. This project was originally intended to be featured in concerts and masterclasses that were cancelled due to the spread of the covid19 virus. https://youtu.be/Qvm-Vt757d4
Free play along download: Bridge to Juan Tizol’s Caravan
https://youtu.be/5EiANzcNVzk Free play along download:
Red Rodney Solo Transcription: Stella By Starlight
free sheet music download: Red Rodney Stella TranscriptionDownload https://youtu.be/1rMB1gCeuwY
Stella By Starlight Melody Played by Red Rodney
Stella Red Rodney Download https://youtu.be/YEa3Guinbis
New Remote Recording! Moongriffin
Just collaborated on a new song with Moongriffin (guitar, keys, Portland, OR) featuring Bryan Murray (tenor saxophone, Watchung, NJ), Caroline Davis (flute, Brooklyn, New York), Chris Merrill (bass Chicago, IL) and Thomas Faulds (drums, Batavia, IL). https://youtu.be/mQCryepdFlw
Major V7-I Enclosures Exercise
PDF Download: V7-I Enclosures
Enclosures: 5th Mode of Harmonic Minor
Starting on the root of the V7(b9) chord, experiment with with adding a pickup 8th note on the "and" of the 4th beat. *This is intended to be memorized. Use the written music as a guide. Download the exercise here: 5th mode of harmonic minor enclosures
Trumpet effects
Harmon mute, octave effect, synth and drums on virtual tape. https://youtu.be/90kdx3_9qUQ