On february 8th 2016, me and my quintet featuring colleagues at the university college where I work, spent 2 1/2 hours for an instant demo recording session. The recording was made using my laptop and Cubase 8 Elements. My new… Continue Reading
Here is a simple backing track of Julia (Lennon/McCartney) as harmonised by Medeski, Martin & Wood on their album Out Louder which features John Scofield on guitar. The track is made to help practicing improvising over the changes which requires… Continue Reading
Our new salsa band “Grupo Tumbao” did its first public performance on Saturday February 1st. The venue Cafe Sanaa was filled to the rim by an enthusiastic audience. Our 2 sets consisted of standard dance tunes such as Chanchullo and La Musica Cubana, both recorded by Ibrahim… Continue Reading
how do jazzmusicians improvise, Billy Taylor, jazz improvisation Continue Reading
During a weekend in late april 2008, I brought my audio pc to Studio Bergen to do my first ever demo recording using Cubase SX 2.2 and the Creamware Scope DSP system. Having invested in a 8 x 8 Luna… Continue Reading
The October edition of Jazzspinneriet was dedicated to the music of Herbie Hancock. In addition to previously presented material, which is documented elsewhere on this blog, we added this time Hancock’s “Driftin’” and Charles Mingus’ “Goodbye pork pie hat”, which… Continue Reading
Autumn 2012, (1 year ago…) at the October edition of Jazzspinneriet, we were fortunate to be joined by Kristin Raknes (vocals), Thomas Nøkling (sax), Jan Erik Reknes (trumpet) and Torbjørn Hillersøy (bass) – 4 great musicians who substituted the regular… Continue Reading
Here is a recording I made of Miles Davis’ Tutu. We did the tune recently at the Jazz spinneriet, and I thought it might be a good idea to lay it down in Cubase playing all instruments but the drums myself.… Continue Reading
In an attempt to get to know better the minor scale positions on my guitar, I recorded the main parts of Ritchie Blackmore’s version of Howard Blake’s Snowman. The chords shift nicely between Em – D – Am – C… Continue Reading
Audio file: Maiden Voyage Scope For the sake of reference I have added to the media library a recording I did in 2008 of Herbie Hancock’s Maiden Voyage. The clip was uploaded to the Creamware user community on PlanetZ, and… Continue Reading
