“The Silliest” EP by Kosnoco (Produced by Vic)

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Curious Automata label-mate Kosnoco returns with yet another genre-defying release. It’s kinda idm, kinda djent, kinda an indescribable mashup of styles that makes you both confused and dance-y.

I dig it, you have to hear it.

Set List: Dry Land Distillers Solo, 12/4/2024

Set 1

  • Improvisation
  • Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma)
  • Day of Wine and Roses (Henry Mancini)
  • Work Song (Nat Adderly)
  • Grin (Vic Dillahay)
  • Seven Come Eleven (Charlie Christian / Benny Goodman)
  • Have You Met Miss Jones (Richard Rodgers / Lorenzo Hart)
  • Cibeles (Vic Dillahay)
  • Who Does She Hope to Be (Sonny Sharrock)
  • Jeannine (Duke Pearson)
  • Bright Size Life (Pat Metheny)

Set 2

  • My Funny Valentine (Richard Rodgers / Lorenzo Hart) / Softly As In a Morning Sunrise (Sigmund Romberg Oscar Hammerstein II)
  • Blue Room (Richard Rodgers / Lorenzo Hart)
  • I’m So Tired (Brendan John Canty / Guy C Picciotto / Ian T G Mac Kaye / Joseph Lally)
  • Airmail Special Charlie Christian / James Mundy / Benny Goodman)
  • Blue Bossa (Kenny Dorham)
  • Improvisation
  • Dat Dere (Bobby Timmons)
  • Check Up (Ornette Coleman)

“Dunlewey” is AllAboutJazz’s Track of the Day

Dunlewey is AllAboutJazz’s Track of the Day!

Download or stream it for free at one of the oldest and most respected websites for jazz:

New Album: Six After Ten

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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.

Download for free (or name your price) at Bandcamp!

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.