shh.jazz

shh.jazz – This piece was written during the summer of 1998 while I was once again house sitting for Brad Garton in New Jersey. It was strongly influenced by the music of Miles Davis and his ”Bitches Brew” period. Based on snippets of my own piano and trumpet playing, it too uses the sample-based granular synthesis techniques, with which I was quite enamored at the time. This work started off as a piano-based composition. But as it progressed, I began to be reminded of the many keyboard bands of Miles Davis and the recordings he made with Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Keith Jarrett. At the foot of the stairway leading up to Brad’s studio was his daughter’s trumpet. At one point, I could no longer restrain myself and decided that even though I had never played a trumpet before, I had to make an attempt at it – the piece just begged for the instrument. Many people are taken aback when they hear my out-of tune trumpet playing – not like Miles Davis at all. On the other hand, I feel it evokes a certain wild, out-of-control sound that really fit the mood of the piece. This work was played on December 4, 1997 in Tokyo, Japan at Keio University Mita campus during the U.S.A./Japan Intercollege Computer Music Festival.

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shh.jazz
	shh.jazz – This piece was written during the summer of 1998 while I was once again house sitting for Brad Garton in New Jersey. It was strongly influenced by the music of Miles Davis and his ”Bitches Brew” period. Based on snippets of my own piano and trumpet playing, it too uses the sample-based granular synthesis techniques, with which I was quite enamored at the time. This work started off as a piano-based composition. But as it progressed, I began to be reminded of the many keyboard bands of Miles Davis and the recordings he made with Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Keith Jarrett. At the foot of the stairway leading up to Brad’s studio was his daughter’s trumpet. At one point, I could no longer restrain myself and decided that even though I had never played a trumpet before, I had to make an attempt at it – the piece just begged for the instrument. Many people are taken aback when they hear my out-of tune trumpet playing – not like Miles Davis at all. On the other hand, I feel it evokes a certain wild, out-of-control sound that really fit the mood of the piece. This work was played on December 4, 1997 in Tokyo, Japan at Keio University Mita campus during the U.S.A./Japan Intercollege Computer Music Festival. shh.jazz: mp3 (18.5MB)