Michael Steinman was kind enough to record our recent recital at the City College of New York. A few of my original arrangements along with Bill Holman and Dave Van Kriedt’s! via WARM SOUNDS IN MOTION: JON DE LUCIA OCTET in RECITAL: JON DE LUCIA, ANDREW HADRO, DAN BLOCK, RICKY ALEXANDER, JAY RATTMAN, STEFAN VASNIER, […]
Very much looking forward to attending the NASA Conference at the College-Conservatory of Music at Cincinnati and presenting a brief talk about using Bach’s melodic shapes as an improviser and for non-jazz specific technical practice as well. The talk is at 11 am on Saturday March 10 in room 1340CC. You can see the full […]
Happy New Year everyone! I hope the year brings you happiness and prosperity. I want to share a couple of things regarding Bach Shapes. First, out today I have a new article on Doron Orenstein’s Best Sax Site Ever, which you can check out here: Bach’s Toccata and Fugue. Thanks to Doron for allowing me to […]
For those of you interested in how some of the etudes sound from my new book, Bach Shapes, here is “20,000 Fugues”, based on “How Deep is the Ocean?” Joining me is Stefan Vasnier on the piano. This is our first attempt to play some of the material from the book, and I also […]
I had a surprising amount of requests for a downloadable version of Bach Shapes last week, so here it is! I humbly request that you don’t share this to Scribd or any such sites if you can help it! The download is a good option for our European customers until I can find […]