Crash Bandicoot - Ripper Roo (pre-console version)

This is a tune composed by Oscar Pettiford and Harry Babasin. It also goes by the name "Collard Greens and Black Eyed Peas". It first appeared on Bud Powell's album "Blues in The Closet" in 1956.

Jon Kurtz on the drum kit.

Simon Wojcik on the double bass.

Billly Shelton  https://soundcloud.com/baddmonk on the jazz guitar. Billy also put a lot of work into the recording, editing, mixing, and mastering of the tracks of which this is the first.

Further mastering done using Soundcloud's Sunroof algorithm at 80%.

This was the first tune we played as we got together to jam on November 9th, 2025. I felt it was fitting to post this one first. There will be more tracks coming soon.

Thanks for listening. Let us know what you think of our version of this classic blues tune.

DC Jazz Jam - Blues In The Closet - 11/09/25

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Josh Mancell is a Los Angeles-based composer. He has created music for multi-million unit selling video game franchises (Crash Bandicoot, Jak & Daxter), Emmy award-winning television (Clifford the Big Red Dog), festival-acclaimed independent films (The Wake of Light, Love Comes to the Executioner, A Star for Rose, Eat the Sun, etc) and a diverse array of commercials (including Target, McDonalds, EA Games and AT&T), logos and other visual media. Josh is also involved with several bands as both a performer and a producer (Exploding Flowers, Vagrant Winter, Fun Time Objects, Cellborg) and has guest lectured/panel-participated at American Film Institute, Berklee College of Music, Royal Northern College of Music, Sarah Lawrence College, UC Irvine, Cal Poly Pomona and LA College of Music College. His iconic music for the Crash Bandicoot video games was performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 2018 and music from both the Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter games was performed by the Manchester Video Game Orchestra in 2022.

Crash Bandicoot Warped - Makin Waves (pre-console version)

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