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New Album: Six After Ten
September 26th, 2024 was the 10th anniversary of my lesson studio at Boomer Music Company in Fort Collins. To mark the occasion, I recorded this improvisation that week in my lesson room on my usual teaching gear: workhorse instruments, practice amps, and a recording app on my business phone.
The two sessions have been edited slightly for time and there’s some studio reverb added for depth, otherwise it’s an accurate documentation of my typical noodlings while waiting to teach.
Give it a listen on CD or the music service of your choice, and thanks for listening.
-Vic
“The Jody Grind” with Doug Carmichael at Dry Land Distillers
Doug Carmichael and I playing Horace Silver’s “The Jody Grind” at Dry Land Distillers’ First Wednesday Jazz on September 4th, 2024.
Play Along with “Music for Poochy Patrol”
Play along with the entire “Music for Poochy Patrol” album with backing tracks made from the original tracks and charts for C, B-flat, E-flat, F, and bass clef instruments.
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Berklee, Then and Now
“All the Things You Are” Berklee Guitar Festival, March 24th, 1988
- John Abercrombie – Guitar
- Emily Remler – Guitar
- Mick Goodrick – Guitar
- John Scofield – Guitar
- Dave Clark – Bass
- Marcello Pelliteri – drums
Then here’s this year’s tribute to that concert:
“All the Things You Are” 25 Tributes: Celebrating Lee Eliot Berk, July 2024
- Sheryl Bailey – Guitar
- David Fiuczynski – Guitar
- Rick Peckham – Guitar
- Tim Miller – Guitar
- John Lockwood – Bass
- Tyson Jackson – drums
10 Years of Lessons at Boomer Music Company
On September 26th, 2014 I climbed this staircase for my first day of teaching above Boomer Music Company.
After 10 years of lessons, I have to say: those are a lot of stairs.
New Release: Music for Poochy Patrol
“Music for Poochy Patrol”, the 3rd installment in my trilogy of instrumental guitar albums, is out today! I play or program every instrument myself, and this time I even had to sing a few tunes.
I started writing, arranging, and tracking an album titled “Music for Poochy Patrol” in early 2019. I planned for it to be a set of original instrumentals featuring some of my favorite musicians. And I was going to use my favorite photo of my dogs Rockett and Charlie (aka Poochy Patrol) on the cover. COVID changed those plans a bit. I instead played or programmed every instrument myself. Then, when Rockett died that November, I decided to instead dedicate the album to him and it became 2021’s “Music to Squeak By”. I still had unrecorded charts, and Charlie needed a cover spot, so 2022 saw “Music for Chasing Squirrels”. This album collects the last of the tunes so it’s finally time to use the original title and cover photo.
Since the start, I’ve watched Poochy Patrol and myself change. Rockett and Charlie made a host of new friends, some of whom are pictured on the back cover. I’ve made new friends as well, playing with a host of new musicians in new venues. So this project, instead of collecting the past, is about the future. There will always be new tunes to play, new places to see, and a host of friends to meet along the way.
Hope to see you along that path soon, and, as always, thanks for listening.
-Vic Dillahay
“My Romance” with Doug Carmichael at Dry Land Distillers
Here’s another tune from June’s First Wednesday jazz at Dry Land Distillers with guest saxophonist Doug Carmichael. This time, it’s the Rodgers and Hart standard “My Romance”: