Duo Chronicles

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Well, we made it.  52 weeks later, we've put up a new video every single Tuesday.  Every week, a new arrangement, a new recording, a new video, and most of the time, a new composition altogether...

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True North, is thought of as the direction along the earth's surface towards the geographic North Pole. This the title for this weeks composition. Throughout this project it has been more challenging to write about the music than to work on the music. T...

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Most of the time, when I hear music, I have initial feelings about whether I like or dislike it and down the line (maybe next time I'm at a record store) that may influence my decision to buy or not buy the album.  A couple of weeks ago, I came across t...

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When I was thinking of possible titles for this piece of music, flow is a word that kept coming to mind. Flow, in how it relates to water and also the flow of information or knowledge. By definition the word cascade fits perfectly. One of the definitions...

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This week's video is once again the product of some recent inspirations that have been working their way into both my writing and my playing -- everything from playing Terry Riley with Third Angle to playing Damian Erskine's music for his upcoming CD rel...

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This piece is different than what we've done before.

As I mentioned in Week 28 (http://duochronicles.com/2010/03/09/week-28-off-kilter/), some of the performances from Norwegian groups at the Portland Jazz Festival (http://pdxjazz.com) inspired me to exp...

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It always comes back to the blues, or in the immortal words of Joe Williams, "everyday I have the blues."  By that I mean, the 12 bar form that jazz musicians often use as a template for improvising. The blues can be simple, complex or some combination...

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As I mentioned last week, this year's Portland Jazz Festival just wrapped up.  Some of the most interesting music that I heard at the festival came from several Norwegian musicians that came through as part of the festival -- particularly Trygve Seim's...

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This week, we're bringing you two songs instead of just one.  Also, instead of doing original material, we chose to do arrangements of traditional holiday songs.  With the way that we approached them, I think they still sound like Duo Chronicles - not...