My tribute to the great Chick Corea... a musical genius whose legacy will inspire the art of music for years to come... 

Derek Cornett: all instruments

Armando's Rumba (Chick Corea Tribute)

It is my pleasure to contribute to Axel Weiss's "Samoa" Collaboration... Axel is my favorite Bossa Nova Bavarian Whistler and this tune is bound to make you smile!!! :)

Axel Weiss: Composer/Rhythm Guitar/Whistling (https://soundcloud.com/axelweis)
Derek Cornett: Guitar/Guitarcussion
 

Samoa (with Axel Weiss: Famous Bavarian Bossa Nova Whistler)... :)

Prelúdio is the opening movement of "As Ondas Verdes", written by my wonderful college professor/mentor David Grimes as an homage to the Brazilian guitarist/songwriter Dori Caymmi. The Prelúdio is free-composed, intended to evoke the restless mystery of the sea. The wavelike motion of the accompaniment represents the constant undulation of the sea. The subtitle, "..... nas ondas verdes do mar... " (on the green waves of the sea) is a fragment from Caymmis' lyrics for "É doce morrer no mar (It's sweet to die at sea) The entire score can be purchased here:http://www.productionsdoz.com/en/as-ondas-verdes

Prelúdio (from: As Ondas Verdes) David Grimes: Composer

Here's my take on a haunting pop tune written by Jimmy Webb from the 70's...

Wichata Lineman

Wichita Lineman

Guitar Quartet arrangement of the classic Mingus tune.

Self Portrait In Three Colors (Charles Mingus)

This piece for guitar orchestra was commissioned by my dear mentor and guitar professor David Grimes who passed away in October 2021. It was recorded by the Orange County Guitar Orchestra in 2020. I am dedicating this post to the memory of David Grimes, someone who inspired and encouraged me to compose music for guitar.

Los Jinetes Emascarados (with Orange County Guitar Orchestra/David Grimes: Conductor

I heard Emma's wonderful song and was immediately inspired to do an arrangement. Thank you Emma for working with me. I had a lot of fun!!!! 

https://soundcloud.com/emma-shanley

I'd Walk (Emma Shanley cover) Featuring: Emma Shanley

Just a little arrangement of the well known Everly Bros. tune... Been sitting around my hard drive for a while... Thought I would bring it out for a listen.

Dream (All I Have To Do Is...)

I am so grateful to have the opportunity to work with Edie on one of her "Songs of the Day" I asked if she would mind if I arranged and produced this lovely song, and she graciously agreed. 
Edie Brickell: https://soundcloud.com/ediebrickell Words/Music and Vocals
Derek Cornett: Arrangement/Instruments/Production/Music

Make It Good (collaboration with Edie Brickell)

An improvisation on guitar using the EABEAB tuning with the capo on the 3rd Fret... 
Artwork by: Sharmon Davidson

Crows & Cranes (Improvisation)

Bit of fun with the last tune on Frank Zappa's "The Grand Wazoo" An acoustic guitar trio arrangement of "Blessed Relief". 

Blessed Relief (Frank Zappa)

Classic Jazz tune by Clifford Brown arranged for Guitar and Clarinet

Dave McKeown: Clarinet https://soundcloud.com/dave-mckeown
Derek Cornett: Guitar/Arrangement


Joy Spring (featuring Dave McKeown)

Perhaps it takes a certain amount of Quixotic "imagination" to fight the giants of improvisation... always an adventure. This time, I am joined briefly by my own "Sancho" who goes by the name of "Cato" (I really should close my door when I record... :)

“Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected. Look there, Sancho Panza, my friend, and see those thirty or so wild giants, with whom I intend to do battle and kill each and all of them, so with their stolen booty we can begin to enrich ourselves. This is nobel, righteous warfare, for it is wonderfully useful to God to have such an evil race wiped from the face of the earth."
"What giants?" Asked Sancho Panza.
"The ones you can see over there," answered his master, "with the huge arms, some of which are very nearly two leagues long."
"Now look, your grace," said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone."
"Obviously," replied Don Quijote, "you don't know much about adventures.” 
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

El Molino De Viento (The Windmill)(Improvisation)

I was inspired to arrange this after watching a documentary on The Eagles... A sort of baroque meets latin jazz performed by a poor man's Al Dimeola. Hopefully Glenn Frey won't "kick my ass"... haha.

Hotel California

Preludio from the J.S. Bach Lute Suite BVW 997. Recorded July, 29, 2015

Praeludio (from the Lute Suite BWV 997) J.S. Bach

Recorded with my 1972 Antonio Duran, capo on the 2nd fret. 

Fantasia -William Byrd

Jazz-Funk cover by the 70's era soul band "The Five Stairsteps" Dedicated to my great nephew "Atticus" who just happened to be born as I was finishing the mastering. Welcome little dude! :)

Ooh Child (The Five Stairsteps)

Guitar and Bass duo of a beautiful classic Bill Evans tune

Time Remembered

Fingerstyle arrangement of the fabulous Thelonious Monk tune.

Monk's Mood (arr. Derek Cornett)

Original piece written for "Trio Camino" March 2017. Best described as a sort of Piazaolla crashes a Samba party!

Mais uma p'ra o Caminho (One More for the Road)

Mike Stern/John Scofield inspired bit of fusiony goodness... :)

Phatsaboutright

Hi Paul...this is an audio response to your vitriolic diatribe against "fake" instruments... I just sat down and recorded this without spending too much time... (I had studied this piece awhile ago). Do what you will with this, Paul Sale, you passionate bastard... :)

Bach Prelude BWV 995 (For Paul)

I really enjoy playing this snappy little samba by Jorge Morel (one of my favorite Latin American composers)

Danza Brasilera

A wonderful person I knew from High School passed away today after a long bout with Lymphoma. I wanted to do something in his honor and give him something beautiful to take from this life... I sat down this evening and recorded the most beautiful piece I could find... "In Sorrow's Wake" by Andrew York...

In Sorrow's Wake (In Memory of Rex Moore)

Nastified version of the Stevie Wonder tune. My first submission on SoundCloud with Vocals

Superstition

My first published piece by Mel Bay that was part of a now out of print compilation called "New Music For Classical Guitar", Acheron is a character piece that takes it's inspiration from "Dante's Inferno".... 

Then looking onward I made out a throng
Assembled on the beach of a wide river,
Whereupon I turned to him: "Master, I long
To know what souls these are, and what strange usage
Makes them as eager to cross as they seem to be
In this infected light." At which the Sage:
"All this shall be made known to you when we stand
On the joyless beach of Acheron."  
(Dante: Inferno Canto III)







Acheron

Lovely fingerstyle guitar arrangement by Spence Doidge of the Duke Ellington standard.

I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)

Agustín Pío Barrios, was a Paraguayan classical guitarist and composer. Barrios is perhaps best known for his 1921 classical guitar piece, La Catedral, a work inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach, and widely considered to be Barrios' magnum opus. Julia Florida is one of my favorites to play... 

Julia Florida (Agustín Barrios Mangoré)

Violette Remington: Music, Lyrics and Vocals
Derek Cornett: Production and musical performance

Violette is an extremely talented singer, songwriter and writer who has, by the age of eighteen, has written tons of songs and produced two musicals. "Beautiful Fools", based on the Great Gatsby and "Madman" focusing on the female characters in Bram Stoker's "Dracula" It has been my pleasure to help out with the musical production, arrangement and musical performances for both.

"Anthem" 

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Stars In Her Eyes

Anthem (introducing Violette)

What The World Needs Now

My arrangement of the Classic Dave Brubeck tune for four.... count 'em, four guitars. 

Brubeck heard this unusual rhythm performed by Turkish musicians on the street. Upon asking the musicians where they got the rhythm, one replied "This rhythm is to us, what the blues is to you." Hence the title "Blue Rondo à la Turk."

The rhythm consists of three measures of 2+2+2+3 followed by one measure of 3 + 3 + 3 and the cycle then repeats.

The piece is sometimes incorrectly assumed to be based on the Mozart composition "Rondo alla Turca." In 2003, during an interview, Dave Brubeck commented that "I should've just called it 'Blue Rondo', because the title just seemed to confuse people.

Blue Rondo à la Turk (arr. for 4 guitars)

Nastified cover of the classic Bill Withers tune.

Use Me (Yes... the Bill Withers song :)

Violette Remington: Music, Lyrics and Vocals
Derek Cornett: Production and musical performance

Violette is an extremely talented singer, songwriter and writer who has, by the age of eighteen, has written tons of songs and produced two musicals. "Beautiful Fools", based on the Great Gatsby and "Madman" focusing on the female characters in Bram Stoker's "Dracula" It has been my pleasure to help out with the musical production, arrangement and musical performances for both

Underground (From Madman the Musical) feat. Violette Remington

I am an Architectural Illustrator, independent composer/arranger/multi-instrumentalist (primarily guitar) living in So. California. Unencumbered with the limitations of a professional career (haha... laugh now) Able to explore and create my own musical universe using Soundcloud as a "virtual music/idea distribution center for anyone who is willing to listen. Past professional highlights include two works for solo classical guitar published by Mel Bay and an Electric Blues Guitar play-along method book published by Hal Leonard and available in boot-leg form in Japan....:)I enjoy collaborating and posting a myriad of music here on Soundcloud. Thanks for listening!

Derek Cornett

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