Experiments with 80s/90s drum machine loops and funky guitar lines with gypsy jazz chords on a stratocaster.

The 90s

An original piece of mine circa 2010, with baroque and South Asian influences. The title refers to a paleontological site in Bolivia, discovered in 1994, in which a team of researchers documented an astounding number of well-preserved dinosaur footprints in the fossil record. One researcher described it as a "dinosaur dance floor."

This recording is a single from my upcoming album, All Hands Up, featuring all UNT jazz players in the Dallas TX area. The guitar is my modded short scale telecaster. The first solo is Nick Messick on keys and the second is me on guitar with effects.

All Hands Up

On the Dinosaur Dance Floor

On The Dinosaur Dance Floor

A single-take, minimally produced jazz standard with another UNT jazz musician.

Peel Me A Grape (feat. Ippi Roy)

An old classic that Django used to perform. This recording is performed Alex Hand, Conrad Seto and Jordan Keach. Recorded by Adam Lansky in Portland, OR, summer of 2015.

Louise

Original tune by Alex Hand. Conrad Seto on rhythm guitar and Jordan Keach on bass. Recorded by Adam Lansky in Portland, OR in the summer of 2015.

Picasso Bolero

A Bulgarian/Macedonian tune that I arranged for an electric jazz quintet with an extended solo section and a gypsy tune at the end taught to me by Yuri Yunakov. Look for the full album on Bandcamp and Spotify: Traders of the Lost Arts by the Alex Hand Band.

Traders of the Lost Arts

Kocanska Gaida

Original tune I wrote after coming back from studying music in Bulgaria in 2015. Recorded in the San Francisco area and released on 2019's "The Fast Crusade," available on Bandcamp at the link below and Spotify.

https://alexhandband.bandcamp.com/album/the-fast-crusade

Dragon's Dream

Geamparale

Solo guitar arrangement of the classic Irish tune.

Come By The Hills

Romance de los Pinos by Federico Moreno Torroba, a Spanish guitar classic.

Romance Of The Pines

Multi-genre guitarist working on a masters in jazz performance at University of North Texas.

Alex Hand

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