musical thoughts

Here’s another bebop video post. Bud Powell’s Parisian Thoroughfare.

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Another oldie from the archive, recorded new with my latest studio setup.

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Here’s my first multi-keyboard video for YouTube.

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I hope you enjoy my arrangement of Ron Carter’s tune “Eighty-One.”

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This is proving to be my most popular video on YouTube by a long shot. The video pretty much stands on its own.

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This is a worthwhile topic, so here are some more thoughts continuing the discussion of tension and release. Actually, I found this text file sitting around (I wrote it but seemingly never posted it).

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Milestone time: 200,000 video views on YouTube. Damn. To celebrate, here’s a stereo funk nugget for you all. Powered by Rhodes.

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This is a great photoblog of a Rhodes restoration. If I had to do this much work to mine I never would have bothered. But John is tearing into his and kicking ass at every step.

I am deeply saddened to hear the news that Zawinul died today at a hospital in Wien.

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To borrow 7notemode’s term, this is an encyclopedia of reharmonizations for the well-known standard. It’s presented in video form.

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