Blood Flower is my original composition. The idea of the first slow part comes from a traditional Chinese Muslim melody. It has a strong harmonic minor sound, which is my favorite. After that, the music transforms to a modern funky groove with an ancient feel. The chord progression totally changes, as well as the melody, but the color of the sound still continues with a strong harmonic minor sound. 

Alto Saxophone – PengFei “Randy” Liu
Trombone – Kan Cao
Bass – Stephen Schultz
Piano – Kaze Mauser
Drums – Michael Bremo


Blood Flower

Coconut oil is my original composition. It is 12 bars blues, with 4 bars intro, solo background, and 2 bar CODA ending. For some personal reason, coconut oil became an inside joke when I came to the United States, so the melody is looking for a quite comedic feel.

Alto & Tenor Saxophones – PengFei “Randy” Liu
Trombone – Kan Cao
Guitar – XiaoJun “Jackie” Chen
Bass – Aaron Tomasko
Piano – Kaze Mauser
Drums – Michael Bremo


Coconut Oil

“Not Yet” is a contrafact I wrote over the well-known jazz standard “Have you met miss Jones”. There is also an 8 bar interlude I used a couple of times in the arrangement to separate each section and solo. 

Alto Saxophone – PengFei “Randy” Liu
Bass – Aaron Tomasko
Piano – Kaze Mauser
Drums – Michael Bremo


Not Yet

Meat & Ghost is a contrafact I wrote over the jazz standard Body & Soul. The melody is not the only difference between my contrafact and the original tune. The B section is double time, and it changes back in the last A section. Also, each section has a different instrument double the alto saxophone part.

Alto Saxophone – PengFei “Randy” Liu
Trombone – Kan Cao
Bass – Stephen Schultz
Piano – Kaze Mauser
Drums – Michael Bremo


Meat And Ghost

“Sing a Song of Song” is my favorite tune composed by saxophonist Kenny Garrett. Since I first heard it, I loved it very much. The melody is simple but really beautiful. The unique bass line gives the tune a special character. Kenny Garrett used a lot of harmonic minor sounds instead of just major scales, even though the chord progression contains only three major chords. My arrangement keeps the original melody and bass line in the first section, but after the first solo section, I decided to make the rhythm section do something different for a funky feel.

Alto Saxophone – PengFei “Randy” Liu
Guitar – XiaoJun “Jackie” Chen
Bass – Stephen Schultz
Piano – Kaze Mauser
Drums – Michael Bremo


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