Friday, July 31, 2020
Jim Messina
Monday, July 20, 2020
David Michael Tardy
David Michael Tardy
David's
interest in sound began at 8 years old, when he used to walk around the
house with a portable record player, listening to the sounds of
humpback whales for hours. "My love for film music started at a very
early age and I began hearing finished compositions in my head. I had no
idea how I was going to produce what I was hearing, until I was in the
8th grade, when three musicians came to my school and gave a concert.
The musicians had three keyboards and played the theme from 2001: A
SPACE ODYSSEY and it sounded like a full orchestra. It was at that
moment I realized how I could produce the music." David's parents bought
an old baby grand piano for their house and he found himself playing on
it every moment he could. His parents took notice that he was teaching
himself the piano simply by ear, so they enrolled David in violin
lessons as well and even there David's instructors noticed that he was
learning the violin pieces by ear, as he would play the school recitals,
not looking down at the sheet music, while everyone else was. "Yes, I
do not read or write music and it is a completely foreign language to
me. When I compose music, it is my intention to connect to the heart of
the listener, as this is where my compositions come from. Ironically it
was my family who encouraged me to pursue music, when I was ready and
accepted into the University of San Diego, to study Marine Biology. I
never thought I was good enough, to pursue music as a professional
career." Follow David Tardy
Saturday, July 18, 2020
Jazzical Journeys
For Jazzical Journeys, music
director Bryan Pezzone has conceived a program of arrangements presented
in duos, trios and ensembles for piano, 3 clarinets, saxophone, string
quartet, French horn, bass, drums and spoken word from the Great
American Songbook. A newly commissioned piece by Juliette Gray, written
by Mr. Pezzone and dedicated to Gary Gray and his personal musical
sensibilities is among the wonderful songs presented on the recording.
The ten tracks on Jazzical Journeys are a hybrid of the jazz, classical and film music styles written by some of your favorite composers and re-imagined by clarinetist Gary Gray, pianist and music director Bryan Pezzone and producer/voice-over artist Juliette Gray alongside a coterie of notable musicians. This recording is from the concert presented at UCLA and was conceived as a celebration musical narrative from the Classical Era, Jazz-America' indigenous art form - and music from the cinema.
Sound of Soft Timeless Jazz
Gary Gray
Bryan Pezzone
Juliette Gray
The ten tracks on Jazzical Journeys are a hybrid of the jazz, classical and film music styles written by some of your favorite composers and re-imagined by clarinetist Gary Gray, pianist and music director Bryan Pezzone and producer/voice-over artist Juliette Gray alongside a coterie of notable musicians. This recording is from the concert presented at UCLA and was conceived as a celebration musical narrative from the Classical Era, Jazz-America' indigenous art form - and music from the cinema.
Sound of Soft Timeless Jazz
Gary Gray
Bryan Pezzone
Juliette Gray
Friday, January 3, 2020
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Jazz Masterpieces
A perfect compilation of amazing Jazz pianists ... and just all around Jazz masterpieces.
Tracks by Nina Simone, Jimmy Smith, Alice Coltrane, Olu Dara, Charlie Parker and more.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Friday, September 20, 2019
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Thursday, July 18, 2019
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