Hello Everyone!
As any composer/musician coming of age in the late 20th century, I was exposed to many disparate styles and traditions of music. Two currents of musical thought that especially impacted me were complex contrapuntal music as exemplified by Bach and Josquin, and mid-last-century jazz as found in the works of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Bill Evans (and many others). The pieces I'd like to share here grew out of my desire to combine the melodic-harmonic language of the latter with the compositional structures and devices of the former. The 8 minute and 46 second video linked to below contains 11 short pieces of mine (jazz fugues, preludes, and inventions) for solo piano (each time-coded in the video description below the video on the video's Youtube page). Thanks for listening, and if you have time tell me what you think.
Note: the piano vst is the Native Instrument piano The Grandeur for Kontakt. I personally (due to venerable RSI problems in my hands and wrists) don't have the chops to play these pieces. I used Reaper to record them line by line with one hand.
As any composer/musician coming of age in the late 20th century, I was exposed to many disparate styles and traditions of music. Two currents of musical thought that especially impacted me were complex contrapuntal music as exemplified by Bach and Josquin, and mid-last-century jazz as found in the works of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Bill Evans (and many others). The pieces I'd like to share here grew out of my desire to combine the melodic-harmonic language of the latter with the compositional structures and devices of the former. The 8 minute and 46 second video linked to below contains 11 short pieces of mine (jazz fugues, preludes, and inventions) for solo piano (each time-coded in the video description below the video on the video's Youtube page). Thanks for listening, and if you have time tell me what you think.
Note: the piano vst is the Native Instrument piano The Grandeur for Kontakt. I personally (due to venerable RSI problems in my hands and wrists) don't have the chops to play these pieces. I used Reaper to record them line by line with one hand.