Join Graphite Addiction at Mo Betta Gumbo in Loveland, Colorado this Saturday (October 18th) for an evening of thoroughly confounding music. Tim Carmichael, Pete Ehrmann, and I will be playing Tim’s Watching Water album in its entirety, along with a smattering of old and new originals. There will be heavy grooves, burning solos, introspective ballads, and oud. Because oud makes… Read more →
Great track from Andrew Treto’s OUT Studios, who studied with me in Longmont.
This is a quick ad Tim Carmichael and I did last Friday for Rip Club Sewing Lounge in Loveland, Colorado. We recorded it on Tim’s Boss Micro BR using my Acoustic Image Clarus 2R as a preamp for both the microphone and guitar. A bit of post in Audacity and we were done. Not bad for an hour’s work…. Read more →
My previous book, the Thesaurus of Diatonic Sets, describes the relationships between the content of the subsets of the diatonic or other seven-note scales. It served that purpose well, but I soon found a basic flaw in its approach to pandiatonisim. It is careful about the set content but woefully lacking in concern about how sets move, treating all sets… Read more →
Awesome original song by former Guitars, Etc. student Alec Zamora.
A few from the great jazz composer/pianist Horace Silver, who died yesterday at the age of 85. Señor Blues with Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook: Wes Playing Silver’s Nica’s Dream Song for My Father, Horace Silver’s 5tet: photo by Dimitri Savitski Read more →
The music industry is in bad shape. Record labels are losing money. Naturally, I started a record label. The Catalog So Far: Thesaurus of Diatonic Sets — The book that started it all. Lots of numbers, and they only make sense if you’re used to pandiatonic composition. Still, Still, Still — The first audio release was a reissue of Aspen… Read more →