Category: Instrumental Music & Songs

A 2-piano redo of an early work along with a video performance and imagined adventures of a piano that was painted for Santa Barbara’s Pianos on State Street annual celebration. The rewriting resulted in this piece for 2 pianos, and Broken Train for 2 saxophones. A big thank you to Eliesa, Judy, and Jeanette, who…

A sextet piece consisting of 2 saxes, 2 pianos, bass, and drums.

AI-generated big band version of the song Siren’s Call – a duet of Odysseus and a Siren.

A jazz sextet number featuring 2 saxophones and 2 keyboards, drums, and bass. The piece is in 12/8 (4 triplets), and latin-inspired montunos (relatively continuous keyboard sequences) enter midway through. Second half of the piece perhaps easiest to hear as 4 sets of 3 consecutive notes on the piano that you can tap quickly with…

A rock instrumental that is an improvisation on my song Siren’s Call. Short video and the full audio track

A blues song about climate change featuring a steel slide guitar. To bring in an interesting edge, the guitar is being played in Eb minor against blues music in C major. The near overlap with the blues scale in C brings in a couple of dissonances with the dominant Eb riff and the underlying music.…

Odysseus and his men come out of a storm and encounter the sirens. The crew have a different view of the sirens though. Melody uses chromaticism and sequences of diminished chords, and features a trio of slide guitars meant to provide a haunting and luring sound.

A “future jazz” composition with surreal video. The inspiration began with Pinky’s Bar at 9:30 & E at burning man, but this was all lost as the music morphed completely into a gig set in the nightmarish depths of Twin Peak’s Black Lodge.

I wrote this in memory of the Cuban musicians in the Buena Vista Social Club.