New Recordings of Roger's Tunes

[Roger Aldridge]

Woodwind Forum Friends,

New recordings of my tunes have been added to my Reverbnation, Facebook, and American Music Center pages.

Here's a link to Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/#!/rogeraldridge

The tunes include Blues for Lester; PI, Why?; and Toads. These are contemporary jazz pieces that use a violin with a jazz quartet (tenor sax, guitar, bass, drums). I'm especially happy with how Blues for Lester turned out. It's not easy music. Jason Shapiro plays a really nice tenor solo on that track.

Please give them a listen. If you like the music and would like to have a copy of the leadsheets, you can download the music from my composer's page at the American Music Center.

Thanks, Roger

 

[Roger Aldridge]

More info about the music....

BLUES FOR LESTER is my personal favorite. It has funk, blues, jazz, and a hint of new music all rolled into one tune.

"PI, WHY?" has also been receiving a good number of positve comments. This tune is based on using PI as a sequence of melodic intervals. However, it doesn't sound overly mental or academic. It has a good groove.

TOADS has been growing on me. This recording is just a one-chorus tune demo. I've started to hear it as invoking a 1950's style movie with mutant creatures wreaking havoc on a small town.... ha ha

GOODBYE TO SUMMER is a reflective, gentle bossa nova that features the violin with the rhythm section. Smoking guitar solo!

HERON ON AN ICY POND is a jazzy waltz with the violin and rhythm section. The recording is just a one-chorus tune demo.

The new recordings include an improved demo of BUZZARDS IN LOVE (for wind ensemble). The quality of sound is better on this MP3 than the one I had before. The demo is a rough approximation of how the piece sounds with a live band. The score has improvisation in several pieces which, of course, cannot be included in this demo.

The musicians on the recordings are: Amy Leonard, violin; Jason Shapiro, tenor saxophone; E. Shawn Qaissaunee, guitar; Peter McCarthy, bass; Skip Rohrich,drums. All of them perform in the Philly area.