A few Jazz notes
You'll find what are called "standards". I will certainly not try and stamp a label on these tunes, except one of pure pleasure. And the pleasure starts more or less around Cole Porter, with a stop at Duke Ellington, up to Charles Mingus, not forgetting Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk and everything in between !
You'll find jazz themes that I've been writing since 2007. In jazz, I write music that I like to play. During many years I listened to a wide variety of jazz (long before I played some). And, I must say that there are now, some jazz adventures that leave me completely indifferent. This observation is totally subjective and I have no the intention whatsoever of convincing anybody. From one end to the other of the jazz scope, one has to simply follow his or her inner voice.
I've been playing tenor sax since September 2006. Unfortunately, I practically don't know any musicians. My dream, surely, would be to play with "real" musicians. But, for now, this dream seems inaccessible. It's primarily for this reason that I turned myself towards an accompaniment software. I'm conscious of the fact that I evolve in a virtual world and nothing can replace a "live human" musician. It's my way of getting closer to my dream I guess.
Most of the tunes include an accompaniment by the software Band-in-a-Box. I use exclusively Real Tracks that come with Band-in-a-Box. These are audio samplings of real musicians. It's not possible to make them play a given melody of your choice. So, these virtual musicians have only a soloist part. Other accompaniments are provided by play-alongs from The Jamey Aebersold series.
Then I import the resulting audio file in the software Logic Pro X. From then on, I record myself live on tenor sax, in Logic and I dispatch / arrange the different solo parts along the tune. At first, the recordings were made with the mic of my iMAC 27". Since the end of 2013, all my recordings are made with a USB Yeti by Blue Microphone.
I record myself and mix as best I can. I do not know anything about the world of audio recording, I learn as I go along. I use very little effects. So the recordings are what they are. I'm not trying and I do not have the necessary experience to produce commercial CDs. I am more interested in playing rather than becoming a sound engineer ! My goal with these recordings is to open a window on my saxophone playing, so that maybe one day, it may interest some "live" musicians.
May 2014
You'll find jazz themes that I've been writing since 2007. In jazz, I write music that I like to play. During many years I listened to a wide variety of jazz (long before I played some). And, I must say that there are now, some jazz adventures that leave me completely indifferent. This observation is totally subjective and I have no the intention whatsoever of convincing anybody. From one end to the other of the jazz scope, one has to simply follow his or her inner voice.
I've been playing tenor sax since September 2006. Unfortunately, I practically don't know any musicians. My dream, surely, would be to play with "real" musicians. But, for now, this dream seems inaccessible. It's primarily for this reason that I turned myself towards an accompaniment software. I'm conscious of the fact that I evolve in a virtual world and nothing can replace a "live human" musician. It's my way of getting closer to my dream I guess.
Most of the tunes include an accompaniment by the software Band-in-a-Box. I use exclusively Real Tracks that come with Band-in-a-Box. These are audio samplings of real musicians. It's not possible to make them play a given melody of your choice. So, these virtual musicians have only a soloist part. Other accompaniments are provided by play-alongs from The Jamey Aebersold series.
Then I import the resulting audio file in the software Logic Pro X. From then on, I record myself live on tenor sax, in Logic and I dispatch / arrange the different solo parts along the tune. At first, the recordings were made with the mic of my iMAC 27". Since the end of 2013, all my recordings are made with a USB Yeti by Blue Microphone.
I record myself and mix as best I can. I do not know anything about the world of audio recording, I learn as I go along. I use very little effects. So the recordings are what they are. I'm not trying and I do not have the necessary experience to produce commercial CDs. I am more interested in playing rather than becoming a sound engineer ! My goal with these recordings is to open a window on my saxophone playing, so that maybe one day, it may interest some "live" musicians.
May 2014