Joined: 17 May 2004 Posts: 9 Location: St. Louis, MO USA
Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject: Share YOUR music with the FORUM
Hello,
My name is Scott Jones....
First of all THANK you to Scott Henderson for your incredible playing and music, you have always been an inspiration to my own and I'm glad I get this opportunity to talk with fellow fans about your music and related subjects!!
I’m so excited to see this forum created......it’s about time!!!
I thought this went pretty well in Allan's forum, so I thought I'd get it going here.....
I always loved hearing clips from players in forums all over the world, and especially when we all have such a great role model as Mr. Henderson as common influence......
I thought I'd get it going, but let's post clips, be encouraging, do some cyberjamming, just plain and simple: listen and respect one another, sharing our music......after all we didn't become musicians to hide it under a rock...eh?
Anyway......
A bit more about myself:
I'm 38 years old...My life itself has taken some crazy turns (losing my first wife to cancer, back in 1997), and now I am re-married with a 19 month old daughter....life could not be better!
I'm really fortunate...music (playing, writing, recording, arranging) is all I do for a living...
My main musical styles are fusion, jazz, prog, blues...but I play just about everything, not to limit myself...
My influences are very diverse, but fusion being the main thing:
Scott Henderson is absolutely the biggest(not just because I’m here), Mike Landau, Pat Metheny being the main ones...
I taught guitar and theory privately for 4 years from 1992-1996, going to students homes...had to streamline my schedule (when my 1st wife started to get REALLY sick, before her death) and just I don't do it on a regular basis anymore...
In 2002, I was very fortunate to have my CD “released” on Allan Holdsworth's label, Gnarly Geezer Records...
From that release, I received some great feedback from Steve Vai, Brett Garsed, Derryl Gabel, Shane Theriot, Greg Koch, Rusty Cooley...
In 2003, I switched labels and was officially signed to Progressive Arts Music, and
re-released the C.D. in October 2003.
For this re-release, I went back into the studio and wrote 3 bonus tracks, and beefed up the guitar parts and the overall mix, making it a much better disc...(I also enhanced the C.D. with about 80 minutes of bonus mp3s in CD-ROM format, and 3 live video clips)
I was very fortunate to have released this new version to some very encouraging reviews...
I'm fortunate to have been in Keyboard magazines Discoveries column, Recording magazine's Reader's tapes, Music and Computers magazine's Spotlight column.
I have recently lined up Dave Weckl's keyboardist Steve Weingart and hopefully Steve Vai's drummer Virgil Donati, as well as producer/engineer Anton Pukshansky, for the next C.D. that I will be writing and recording this year, Anton is a Grammy award winner for his work on Santana's "Supernatural", and with this release, I hope to break new ground with this release.
I will, in the meantime, be releasing a straight-ahead jazz C.D. before the next “official” release.
O COME EMMANUEL
Sjones O Come Emmanuel PERFORMED LIVE AT MY CHURCH (my arrangement with a "Matrix" and "Evanescence" feel...this is totally based on the soundtrack of "Revolutions" and an Evanesence song) I'm the arranger/orchestrator/director/guitarist, electric sitar with choir, orchestra (horns, strings), full contemporary rhythm section; - (there is a tapping solo around 5:00)
JAZZ SOLOING FROM THE STYLISTIC APPROACHES OF SCOFIELD, METHENY AND HENDERSON (Well, sort of)
Sjones Nardis My take on the Miles Davis tune. I played it as three different approaches, one solo after another in the same track: as Scofield; as Metheny, and the last one as Henderson (with a bit of Landau)...the reharmonization and chord voicings are in the Holdsworth approach.
PLANET X-LIKE TUNE w-VIRGIL DONATI
Sjones-Planet-X-like tune (an unreleased song I wrote over three of Virgil's solos from his CD "Stretch"....I'm playing guitar, bass and keys)
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Anyway, just a handful of clips to give you an idea.....
Thanks for the opportunity to share.....glad to be a part of this forum!!
(There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t listen to Scott’s music.)
fantastic players. thanks for posting your stuff, good listening.
Mine are on my website, just click on the "www" sorry about the photo! some of the tracks are a bit old, and the recent stuff is more commercial work and the producers dont let me post it until they are released. but am working on some fusionesque tunes for my own self gratification, need to get them out of my system.
love that django style tune, you seem to have captured his technique well, love that bend. And giant steps, nuts, that tune has been taunting me for a while now, can you just tell me, it could be a stupid question, but is it best to think of tonal centres rather than chasing the chords, i have been trying to learn all the chords and chase the changes.
Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 10 Location: Seattle, WA
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 7:16 am Post subject:
I see what have a bunch of great players on this forum! I was already familiar with scottl and scottj from other boards - great players and great guys!
I have some music online too - not a whole lot yet, but go to my site and check it out if you like! _________________ Russ
http://www.russletson.com
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