Another free improv Sax + Guitar + Effects track from November:
Gary Prince - Guitar/effects
Kate Olson - Soprano Sax/effects
same session as my previous post.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Friday, December 7, 2012
My Romance
This is my arrangement of the jazz standard "My Romance", which I wrote last June, and have finally gotten around to recording and posting.
"My Romance" (Rogers & Hart)
Arranged by Gary Prince
Gary Prince: Electric Guitar
It's not the cleanest recording in the world. This was done in my bedroom using my practice amp, a Fender Super Champ. I kind of like that it came out sounding kind of tinny and quaint, like sound out of an old radio played quietly. This arrangement was inspired by the fantastic book Guitar Solos: Thirteen Standards by Barry Galbraith which I've been using with my students for the past year. For anyone interested at all in jazz guitar, it is a really wonderful book. All Galbraith's arrangements find the perfect balance between being readily performable, very musical, and just challenging enough for most intermediate students.
I've done a few more arrangements like this, and will post them as I get around to it.
Arranged by Gary Prince
Gary Prince: Electric Guitar
It's not the cleanest recording in the world. This was done in my bedroom using my practice amp, a Fender Super Champ. I kind of like that it came out sounding kind of tinny and quaint, like sound out of an old radio played quietly. This arrangement was inspired by the fantastic book Guitar Solos: Thirteen Standards by Barry Galbraith which I've been using with my students for the past year. For anyone interested at all in jazz guitar, it is a really wonderful book. All Galbraith's arrangements find the perfect balance between being readily performable, very musical, and just challenging enough for most intermediate students.
I've done a few more arrangements like this, and will post them as I get around to it.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Solo Improv (July 2012)
Free improvisation from July 7, 2012:
Gary Prince - Electric Guitar, Effects I'm using my Stratocaster here. That guitar is currently sitting in my room with no strings on it while I try to decide whether to change out the pickups/do something to decrease its out of control humming and buzzing whenever on one of the single coil settings.
Gary Prince - Electric Guitar, Effects I'm using my Stratocaster here. That guitar is currently sitting in my room with no strings on it while I try to decide whether to change out the pickups/do something to decrease its out of control humming and buzzing whenever on one of the single coil settings.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Free Improv 11.7.12
Free Improvisation for Guitar, Saxophone, and effects:
Gary Prince: Electric Guitar, Effects Kate Olson: Soprano Saxophone, Effects
This is from our first time playing together, both using effects. Very different from years of playing 'dry' - compare to this track, from 2010, and to our album, recorded in 2009. For both of us, I think using these effects means finally finding something of the sound we've been looking for all along, even as there is a learning curve to working together with them. I'm really happy with how this piece turned out - not bad for the second piece of our first time playing together in half a year, and our first session using pedals and computers!
Gary Prince: Electric Guitar, Effects Kate Olson: Soprano Saxophone, Effects
This is from our first time playing together, both using effects. Very different from years of playing 'dry' - compare to this track, from 2010, and to our album, recorded in 2009. For both of us, I think using these effects means finally finding something of the sound we've been looking for all along, even as there is a learning curve to working together with them. I'm really happy with how this piece turned out - not bad for the second piece of our first time playing together in half a year, and our first session using pedals and computers!
Friday, November 23, 2012
All Those Little Crickets
The first of what is sure to be many tracks from the free jazz epic that was two weeks ago....recorded on 11.10.12 at the Bohemian Cafe in Baltimore
Gary Prince - Guitar, effects
Andrew Klein - Voice, words
Random Barista - "Mocha Latte!"
(free improvisation for guitar, voice, and coffee makers)
I'm playing slide on this one, something I've been doing for the past couple months, after years of avoiding it. The delay sound at the beginning is caused by running two delay pedals simultaneously (an idea I stole from Dustin Wong - check out this great video of him - even though I wind up using mine very differently from him. I can't figure out how the hell he gets his to sound like that). With this sound I am definitely thinking of Steve Reich, and the way he may repeat a figure over and over between multiple instruments, moving just slightly in and out of phase. Not that I really wind up sounding like that either, but that is at least what is going on in my mind.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Gary Prince - Guitar, effects
Andrew Klein - Voice, words
Random Barista - "Mocha Latte!"
(free improvisation for guitar, voice, and coffee makers)
I'm playing slide on this one, something I've been doing for the past couple months, after years of avoiding it. The delay sound at the beginning is caused by running two delay pedals simultaneously (an idea I stole from Dustin Wong - check out this great video of him - even though I wind up using mine very differently from him. I can't figure out how the hell he gets his to sound like that). With this sound I am definitely thinking of Steve Reich, and the way he may repeat a figure over and over between multiple instruments, moving just slightly in and out of phase. Not that I really wind up sounding like that either, but that is at least what is going on in my mind.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Friday, November 9, 2012
This weekend in Baltimore - 11/10 at Bohemian Cafe
Tomorrow night I'll be playing in Baltimore at the Bohemian Cafe. The event starts at 9 pm and goes until 11 - no cover. Click here for more information!
I wanted to share this version of "How to Get There", from October 28th
Gary Prince - Guitar, loops
Andrew Klein - Voice
Words by Frank O'Hara
Compare it to when we first did this song (see my post from May 29th) - that version was literally the first time we ever played it, and the first time I was hearing the poem. We've been doing it for a while now, and this is where it is at here. We have a lot of music for free download here!
Hope to see some folks on Saturday, and very very excited to be playing again with Kate Olson and Tim Cohen. Some KGT tracks will be up soon too!
I wanted to share this version of "How to Get There", from October 28th
Gary Prince - Guitar, loops
Andrew Klein - Voice
Words by Frank O'Hara
Compare it to when we first did this song (see my post from May 29th) - that version was literally the first time we ever played it, and the first time I was hearing the poem. We've been doing it for a while now, and this is where it is at here. We have a lot of music for free download here!
Hope to see some folks on Saturday, and very very excited to be playing again with Kate Olson and Tim Cohen. Some KGT tracks will be up soon too!
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Solo from 10.7.12
Some post hurricane music:
Improvisation 10.7.12
Gary Prince: Guitar, Loops, Effects
Lynne Price: Dance
This is actually from a duo piece between myself and Lynne Price, who is featured in my previous post. Normally I don't like removing things from their original context like this, but I really wanted to share this piece. I hope to include the video of the dance portion in the future - for now, here is one half.
Andrew Klein and I will be performing, along with the KGT Trio, at the Bohemian Cafe in Baltimore on Saturday, Nov 10th, 9-11 pm. There is no cover. Come one, come all!
Improvisation 10.7.12
Gary Prince: Guitar, Loops, Effects
Lynne Price: Dance
This is actually from a duo piece between myself and Lynne Price, who is featured in my previous post. Normally I don't like removing things from their original context like this, but I really wanted to share this piece. I hope to include the video of the dance portion in the future - for now, here is one half.
Andrew Klein and I will be performing, along with the KGT Trio, at the Bohemian Cafe in Baltimore on Saturday, Nov 10th, 9-11 pm. There is no cover. Come one, come all!
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