Pure Mellow Jazz

Each time through the progression, another extension is added to the base chord. In the end, you wind up with a major 13th chord.

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// What Do Freedom Fighters Fight? an Insta Story Madness Well Done
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// you know the drill
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// shame on YOU
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// shame on US
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Warrant for 'War Crimes of Starvation' Was Issued (8 Months Ago)

Sarah n' a plus d' espoir                                   
Oh non Sarah ne peut plus croire
En Jéovah ou Allah
À jérusalem à Gaza...
À Tokyo à Paris la mode
Est en train de choisir ses robes
Mais pour Sarah laissez tomber
J' en parlerai à sa poupée...

Sarah Abraham et Ibrahim

Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUlCMY7aurk

New Album MMXXV! 

EnJoY!

Derrame [video in description]

time line up

Don't Cry Anymore

We are Sound

Frequency found
Faced cosmical resonance
Heal of all hound
Or leaf levitation dance
The strings of our world
Found beside tuned tree
Sound peaceful now light
As these moments bare free

Proof of this place
Shone by knowledge of night
Harmony confirmed morn
Luminous liquid life
Horizon, have hope
We play as one
Good universe answers
With vision to stun

We are us
We are found
We feel love
Unity bound
In light we trust
We are but hound
We are love
We are sound

Cool conscious crux
Clued consequential
Fed this song
To tame essential
Prudential thought
Where value is life
Creed competition
'Seed crucified

This way of walk
We hold suffered hands
As born, Blank slate
Clean conscious glands
All karmic crime
Your experienced self
From no previous life
Is punishment dealt

We are just
We are found
We give love
Future bound
In light of moment
We are but hound
As ever love
We are sound

Resonance tuned
Eased Earthly rock
Healed hound heart boon
Being timed
Tick Tock
We trade a market
Coined with spirit and soul
We tame the starkest selves whom sold

Being of water
Liquid life
Harmonise today
Transmute our strife
As we laugh and caress our tree
Find tantric tuned
Cosmic frequency

We are Sound (Poem)

REASON TO LIVE 

 

by David Snyder 

 

V1 

 

Sit in my car 

look at the sky 

I'm being followed 

and I don't know why 

I know I've committed  

a couple of crimes 

which one was it now 

what did I do this time 

 

PC 

 

and all of the religion 

in this midnight world 

can't save me now 

that I've lost my girl 

 

Ch  

 

Cause she 

was my reason to live 

and she was my reason to forgive 

and now that my girl is gone 

I will drive all night staring into these lights 

and by morning 

It will still all be wrong 

 

V2 

 

I don't remember  

being born 

I don't remember 

growing old 

but I do remember  

those times I was hurt 

and I do remember  

a lifetime of cold 

 

PC 

 

and all of the religion 

in this midnight world 

can't save me now 

that I've lost my girl 

 

Ch  

 

Cause she 

was my reason to live 

and she was my reason to forgive 

and now that my girl is gone 

I will drive all night staring into these lights 

and by morning 

It will still all be wrong 

 

Cause she was my reason to live 

And she was my reason 

My only reason 

To forgive 

 

 

All music and lyrics copyright 2025 by David Snyder 

 

David Snyder: Guitar and vocals, additional instrumentation, mixing, mastering, production

REASON TO LIVE

Black Waltz of Ashes

From Aaron Goldberg's "At The Edge of The World" (11/16) on Sunnyside Records.

For the past two decades pianist Aaron Goldberg has crisscrossed the globe, spreading his music and absorbing local knowledge along the way.  True to the jazz mentality, he learned to embrace serendipity as an artistic muse.  Five years ago this month, in an historic chateau at the exact geographic center of France, Goldberg was reunited with an early influence.  Soon a new project began to take shape.  Goldberg’s latest recording, At The Edge of The World, documents this recent collaboration with drummer and percussionist Leon Parker, a brilliant innovator and performer, in a new trio along with the gifted bassist Matt Penman. 

While studying at the New School in the early 1990’s Goldberg was introduced to Parker’s singular playing alongside keyboard icons including Kenny Barron, Brad Mehldau and Jacky Terrasson. Parker was a trailblazer on the kit, intent on developing a distinct language and sound all his own. Goldberg went on to attend Harvard but would return in the summers to the City to make sessions with both innovative peers and big city legends, including a multiyear musical mentorship from Betty Carter and a memorable gig with Parker in 1992.

In the decade after his return to NYC in 1996, Goldberg made a name for himself in the bands of Joshua Redman, Al Foster, Wynton Marsalis and Kurt Rosenwinkel, all while developing his own highly regarded trio with bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland. Parker, on the other hand, left New York on September 10 2001 for France, where he stopped playing drum set and nearly disappeared from the jazz world altogether. 

Over a decade later Goldberg found himself in France without a drummer and was curious to see if Parker would be interested in playing again. Leon still remembered him well after 20 years, and without any rehearsal the gig became an unexpected triumph as the two experienced an instant musical reconnection.  It wasn’t long before Parker expressed his interest in continuing their pairing on a more permanent basis, not as a sub but rather a full-fledged member of Goldberg’s band. Parker had found a musical outlet that he hadn’t fully known that he needed, and soon he was eager to get back into the scene.

By the fall of 2015 the duo was dialed in to tour but there were still significant logistical and financial hurdles to overcome.  So Aaron applied for a French-American Jazz Exchange Grant to support this new trio project. Fortunately both the French and American governments were smiling down on them from above, and the duo received both the FAJE grant and a new passport for Parker just in time for the first gig of their tour. The grant also provided enough resources to partially fund two recording sessions: one became Goldberg’s At The Edge of the World, and another led to a co-produced Leon Parker album.  Together these developments allowed for the re-ignition of Parker’s musical career, and he dove back into playing upon his return to NYC.

Goldberg’s longstanding appreciation for the drummer’s highly conversational style continued to grow as they had ever more fun on the bandstand with each tour. The joy in their shared swing and united groove was infectious and their interaction organic. Night by night Parker began to incorporate more of his singular vocal percussion as well as EmbodiRhythm, his personal body percussion techniques, into the music.  The collaboration evolved from an exploratory project into a partnership.

At The Edge Of The World

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Warna

The Light

This song is a love story of sorts, a temptress who is luring in this man with her wild ways, getting him to leave his normal mundane life behind and live with her in the forest of blue. In my mind this had a fairy tale feel to it but with a darker element...  The music I feel works great with the piano and strings, giving it a great atmosphere and really fits in well with the storyline

Pure Imagination (feat. Dena DeRose, Ignasi González & Jo Krause)

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