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2013.12.01:
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'white christmas' +
'jump steady blues'
here's a modern 78 of boogie woogie piano recordings for the holidays:
side A 'white christmas' as I imagine
Albert Ammons would have played it.
side B 'jump steady blues' a studio
recording of the 1928 Pinetop Smith boogie woogie classic.
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2013.02.12:
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'jump steady blues (live video)'
for a few weeks in early 2013 there was a grand piano on the bluffs overlooking the ocean in Half Moon Bay.
it was an art installation by Mauro Ffortissimo, involving nightly concerts, and ultimately ended with the
piano being set on fire (not to worry, it was in pretty bad shape even before being placed on the bluffs).
during the day, it was open to anyone who wanted to play it. so i played the classic 1928 Pinetop Smith
boogie woogie 'Jump Steady Blues'.
interesting trivia (if you're me): most boogie woogie that followed this in the 30s and 40s is in C.
'Jump Steady Blues' is in E-flat. curiously E-flat actually makes the walking bass figure a lot easier to
play than in C, due to the topology of the keyboard. and also for that same reason many of the riffs
really only work when played in E-flat.
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2012.12.11:
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'a christmas carol'
a year ago Michael La Guardia and i produced the soundtrack for Coastal Repertory Theatre's production of A Christmas Carol.
all the tracks are classic Christmas carols with arrangements ranging from fairly traditional to really odd. Case in point:
'Hell' is an arrangement of
'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen' for cello, piano, and steam locomotive.
Click here to browse and listen to
the entire soundtrack.
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2012.11.12:
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'heterochromia'
now this is my latest electronic instrumental.
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2012.05.26:
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'triton'
my latest electronic instrumental.
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2011.02.10:
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'groovy'
this is the music i wrote for Coastal Rep production of Noises Off.
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2010.10.15:
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new music!
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2009.02.01:
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'smog'
i've
been sitting on this one for a while. don't know why. anyway, a snippet
of it got played on kgo radio on 2009.01.30 on a show called 'the
greatest music you've never heard', hosted by Ronn Owens and Brad Kava.
click here
for a link
to
the kgo audio archive containing the snippet. skip to 19 minutes in.
note: this link will probably no longer work after 2009.02.06.
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2008.11.29:
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new music posted
first
there is a new category of piano solos containing two
performances of just me and a piano keyboard (no sequencing software,
effects, and such). these are non-traditional arrangements of some
chrismas classics i did for Pacific Spindrift Players production of It's a Wonderful Life
(running for the next 3 weekends). thanks to this show i finally have
an excuse to play Albert Ammons style boogie woogie for an audience.
note: they are very short, due to how the fit into the show.
additionally there is my entry to the cw/imeem 90210 theme cover contest. fun little
diversion between shows.
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2008.09.04:
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'let's play'
this
is the arrangment i played nightly for the the Coastal Repertory
Theatre's production of the The Full Monty
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2008.06.20:
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'get mashed'
released
just
in time for the theatrical release of get smart.
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2007.07.06:
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rocky horror
i
am playing keyboards in the half moon bay coastal rep's stage
production of the rocky
horror show. the show runs from 2007.07.27 through 2007.08.18.
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2007.02.18:
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the essence - of music
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2006.09.24:
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'(just
can't get) enough music' video on myspace
hats
off to vj jaren for
making this wonderful music video!
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2006.03.13:
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'go frozen'
released
apparently
i just can't get enough madonna or moby.
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2006.01.14:
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'(just can't get) enough music'
debuts as bootie...
...complete
with a lipsynch performance by Patty O'Furniture, Brandon Irons, the
Velvet Squid, and me.
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2005.10.16:
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'cellophane[green]'
released
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piece completes the cellophane series... maybe. |
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2005.06.10:
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victoria
| patty
and tristan (aka denise and bill) are proud to announce the arrival of
their daughter, victoria,
born at 00:31 on friday, june 10, 2005. |
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2005.05.13:
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big in china
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the
last couple of months, users of the chinese search
engine mp3.baidu.com have been by
far the most frequent downloaders of my mashups. i am completely
stumped as to the cause of my sudden new-found popularity there. but
i'm happy that somewhere in the world, people are listening to my work! |
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2005.04.09:
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tristan shout tracks
included on
the
compilation CD 'the best mashups in
the world ever are from san francisco'
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am
honored to have two of my mashups chosen for this
anonymously produced 17-track compilation! Click here
for more information. |
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2005.03.12:
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patty o'furniture
performs to 'diamonds are dead'
at bootie. |
2005.02.02:
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'cellophane[blue]' released |
2005.01.02:
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tristan
shout performing at One Night
Stand at Slim's fri, jan 7, 9pm
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playing keyboards in an Oingo Boingo tribute band called Forbidden
Zone. Click here
for more info about the show. |
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2004.10.09:
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'das
supermodell'
debuts at bootie. |
2004.08.30:
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'cellophane[red]'
reaches #8 on music.download.com's electro
chart. |
2004.08.14:
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'we
are all made of dead stars' played on LIVE 105's subsonic
program. |
2004.08.07:
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'we
are all made of dead stars' released on bootie cd #12. |
