Nightshade

I was going to do a classic blues tune, but then was inspired to write my own, so here is my new original - I hope you dig this one!
I have STELLAR players joining me on this - I'm in love with their performances.
Musicians:
Sky Canyon, vibraphone
Eric Gunnison, piano
Ron Bland, bass
Mike Marlier, drums
Produced, arranged, recorded and mixed by Sky Canyon, except piano recorded by Eric Gunnison; bass recorded by Ron Bland. Mastered by Gary Hobish, A. Hammer Mastering, San Francisco, CA
(c)2021 Sky Canyon, (P)2022 Sky Canyon, All Rights Reserved
Special thanks to Dom Morley at The Mix Consultancy, and R. Magdalene Canyon for her ears on the mix as well!
See all my jazz tunes: www.skycanyonjazz.com

Find Bluesalicious on:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7zKtftxY7lXDfWTaXrQ67g?si=be160489c8af4d0a
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/bluesalicious-feat-eric-gunnison-ron-bland-mike-marlier/1616260484

Bluesalicious

My new original, with stellar players:
Eric Gunnison, piano
Ron Bland, bass
Mike Marlier, drums
Me, Sky Canyon, vibraphone
Produced, engineered and mixed by Sky Canyon
Mastered by Gary Hobish, A. Hammer Mastering
(c)(P)2023 Sky Canyon. All rights reserved.
Special thanks to: R. Magdalene Canyon, Robert Powell, Dom Morley of The Mix Consultancy, and Dik Darnell

Bop That Rhythm

Copyright 2009 and 2011 by Sheri A. VandeRiet.

Alto saxophone solo by Sheri A. VandeRiet.
Trombone solo by George Noyes.
Flugelhorn solo by Lane Lee.

Sheri A. VandeRiet, alto saxophone
Jenna Fossum, alto saxophone
Doug Hoeprich, tenor saxophone
Tony Guillen, tenor saxophone
Barbara Christopher Monserud, baritone saxophone
Lane Lee, trumpet/flugelhorn
Rich Gray, trumpet
Ken Eastman, trumpet
Joyce Shambaugh, trumpet
Jim Monserud, trombone
George Noyes, trombone
Clarke Chambellan, trombone
Michael Tupper, baritone saxophone on trombone 4 part
Michael Petersen, keyboard
Brian Trumble, bass
Tober Schorr, drums

Performed by the Boulder Big Band at Nissi's, Lafayette, Colorado, at the "Live Your Lyrics" event 2023.

I Heard It in a Dream

My work, "Matters of Kindness," recorded by the University of Northern Colorado under the direction of Dr. Richard Mayne! Available for purchase from Grand Mesa Music!

GMM Band 2018a                

Matters of Kindness (UNC)

Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn 'Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn' available 4/3/2020 on CD, and Digital, 5/29/2020 for LP.

Stream/download: https://orcd.co/wufeiabigailwashburn

Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn’s debut collaborative release is a testament to the connective power of music across seemingly disparate cultures. Merging American old-time music and Chinese folksong, Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn features gorgeous, impressionistic renditions of traditional material from the hills of Appalachia to the prairies of Xinjian province, each tune flowing seamlessly into the next. The effervescent resonances of Wu’s guzheng zither dance around Washburn’s expressive banjo playing, their voices intertwining English and various Chinese dialects. This album recasts “world music” as music of our shared world, highlighting our shared humanity and the transformative power of song.

Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn

Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn - Water is Wide/Wusuli Boat Song(乌苏里船歌)

Lux Aurumque

"The Aphelion is the point in the orbit of an object where it is farthest from the Sun." (- wikipedia) Today, we are at the farthest point away from the Sun that we ever get. Roughly 3 million miles further than where we'll be in 6 months (at Perihelion, when we are closest to the Sun) 

I chose to write a piece of music about Earth's 2020 Aphelion because... well, it's been an incredibly challenging 6 months for just about everyone on planet Earth and somehow thinking that today, the Earth will begin to find its way back to the Sun makes me feel hopeful that the next half of this year could be brighter. Maybe even healing. 

This piece of music is the score of sorts to the last difficult 6 months Woven throughout, there are tiny sounds in tribute to the news of the  pandemic, protests, riots, the launch of SpaceX's Dragon, (even a nod or two to Animal Crossing: New Horizons. And snippets of sound from every month of 2020 so far. The song gets more and more distant until the end. 

Oh and "Aphelion" officially kicks off "Astronomy, Vol. 2"! Can't wait to continue on being inspired by the incredible astronomical events and discoveries as they unfold!

7-4-2020

July 4, 2020: Aphelion

Music to observe The Great Conjunction by, on December 21st, 2020 when Saturn and Jupiter will be visibly the closest distance to one another in 800 years. It also happens to be on the Winter Solstice. This piece of music belongs to my ongoing series "Astronomy", which is music inspired by astronomical events and discoveries. "Soundtracks" of sorts to really cool stuff happening in the universe around us. 

To hear all of "Astronomy" so far, here's the official Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0D3EC8oiIRALr3PdO4PmLp?si=QNTNFeR9T7OTQkP-95O96Q

Astronomy

Listen to Astronomy

December 21, 2020: The Great Conjunction

NEW TRACK NEW LOGO NEW SOUND NEW BABY WHO DIS

I'm back on the beats and it sounds like this y'all. 

Please play this extremely loudly and share with everyone who likes big booty basslines. 

this one of those ones you pick your buddy up from jail with gnomesayin

Pothos

This song belongs to my "Astronomy", an ongoing series of songs inspired by astronomical events and discoveries... kind of like soundtracks to cool stuff happening in the Universe around us.

I Heard It in a Dream

Sheri A. VandeRiet

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