An amateurish attempt at reducing Fauré's first Nocturne for piano to a guitar-version. I do this not in the hopes of recording or even publically performing this kind of thing, but instead it belongs in that category of activities that serve to break one out of one's rut, and also to help me make sense of the harmonic wizardry that composers such as Fauré exhibited, in a way that mere harmonic analysis cannot quite accomplish by itself. This is the first section of the Nocturne only, the others to follow...
Myself with the unbelievable Hunter Herman on drums and his son Elliot on bass, just a segment of some unstructured improv. I think in the beginning I'm trying to cop "Zoot Allures" (Zappa) a little halfheartedly, but other than that it's a nice 4 minutes of playing.
Clip of me soloing on standard changes. A first step in Cyber-Exposure, if you will.
From a duet with the great Matt Davis. The first half of it lives at my Soundclick page, riiiiiiight here.
Solo on another standard. Forgive the volume-glitch in the middle, and the sloppiness on either side!
Body and Soul (part one) (part two)
Another duet w/ Matt Davis. This is us taking a normally much slower standard for a little joyride. Part one is me taking the "A"s of the head in, him taking the "B", and my solo. Part two finds us at Matt's solo, into solo sections, and finally the gripping conclusion.