Epistrophy - Thelonious Monk (Take 1)

Cecil Payne+Duke Jordan - Jordu

Thelonious Monk - Don't Blame Me

Kuwaiti Samri is Gulf folk music with a gentle 2/4 sway and a soft frame-drum pulse. In many gatherings you hear interlocking handclaps and chant-like refrains that rise and settle with a warm communal feel. This piece offers a modern instrumental take that features violin as a surrogate for the genre’s lead vocals. The usual call and response is set aside so the core sway remains, carried by a singing melodic line while a quiet frame drum keeps time. The result is intimate and cyclical, with phrases that lean into the beat, float above it, and return to the theme for a calm, hypnotic flow. It gives first-time listeners a clear window into Samri’s rhythmic heart without the crowd energy that typically surrounds it.

[CREATIVE NOTE]
This arrangement adopts the violin as the principal melodic voice throughout, drawing on the Kuwaiti ṣawt tradition to stand in for Samri’s vocal line. Violin is not standard in classic Samri settings. Its use here is an intentional compositional choice that preserves the style’s gentle sway and measured cadence while presenting the melody instrumentally for clarity and learning.

Folklore Interlude - Samri Style Instrumental

Live in CajaGranada. July 2015.

Eva Jiménez-voice
Daahoud Salim-piano
Vasil Hajigrudev-bass
Carlos Cortés-percussion

Djurdjevdan (live in Granada)

Radiohead cover in the style of Haley Reinhart and Scott @ Postmodern Jukebox

Creep

Eva Jiménez- Vocals 

Jungha Lee- Piano 

 Paul David Heckhausen- Audio engineer

Orange Tear (composition by Eva Jiménez)

"Eva Jiménez Project"

Eva Jiménez- vocals
Lucio D'Amato- piano
Vassil Hadjigrudev- bass
Vasileios Panagiotopoulos-drums

Dimitris Dodoras- Sound engineer

Work (Thelonious Monk)

Craig Noseworthy Alto sax, Huan Hermida Piano, Claudio Moxit drums, Daniel Donon bass

Ask me now (Thelonious Monk)

Here's the recording from my senior recital for Georgia State University. Date 4/19/2013

I arranged each song. The first 7 are all the jazz standards you know and love (though hopefully don't sound EXACTLY like the ones you are familiar with). The last one is my dad's original composition that was originally for solo guitar that I had transcribed and arranged for our group.

Saxophones: Guy Priester, Will Hollifield, Alex McGinnis
Bass: Dishan Harper
Drums: Cole McSween
Piano: Keenan Meadows
Guitar (on Market Street): Ragan Davis

I hope you enjoy, whoever you are!

Meet the Flinstones by Hoyt Curtain

arrangement of an arrangement by John Zaradin

More jazzical moods: https://soundcloud.com/s-e-p/sets/jazzical-guitar-moods

Epistrophy - Thelonious Monk (Take 1)

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