Third Stream Jazz Improv.
Victor Granquist, guitar
Ophelia Cohen, vocal, didgeridoo, percussion
Onayemi Olalekan, percussion
Shawnee, trumpet, cornet

The Azule Sessions, Monday, Track One

Classic jazz from the classic French film, 1946, Les Portes de la Nuit. French title, "Les Feuiles Mortes. French lyrics, Jacques Prevert.

Autumn Leaves, Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prevert, 1945. Cover, Stan Shawnee Boyd

Autumn In Our Town, Dave Brubeck, 1964. Cover,Stan Shawnee Boyd.

It is a great privilege and joy for me to make music with the brilliant cellist and all around musician, Michael G. Ronstadt. Many thanks and praise to Petie Ronstadt for the final mix of Gypsy Queen.

Gypsy Queen, The Final Mix. Stan Shawnee Boyd. Michael G. Ronstadt, Cello & String Arrangement.

Been trying to get this one right. Another song from my play (music theater), ALL THOSE STRANGE YEARS. 

Reckless Rider, Stan Shawnee Boyd, 2-24-14

I've uploaded a couple of earlier vocal takes of DARK ANGEL. I deleted them 'cause I like this one the best.

Dark Angel, Take 5, Stan Shawnee Boyd. 4 - 27 - 14. WAV

This little etude is off the top of my head and straight out of a dream waking, hence, the title. I played it on my old Kohler & Campbell acoustic piano, a condenser mic inside the sound box, and another condenser mic next to the piano to get a live performance sound.

Tuesday Night And Wednesday Morning. Stan Shawnee Boyd, 7 - 30 - 14. WAV

Opening stanzas to the oratorio, Mendicant Bashar.
Composition and keyboard, Shawnee Boyd.
Vocal arrangement and vocal performance, Irene Goodnight.

Mendicant Bashar, Vocal And Keyboard, WAV

One of Tom Wait"s lyrical triumphs. Homage.

Soldier's Things, Tom Waits. Cover, Stan Shawnee Boyd, 1 - 1-15. WAV

Gypsy scale, harmonic minor with a raised 4th where the hurt is.

The Big Time Take 8, Stan Shawnee Boyd, 2 - 8-15. WAV

Another layer on the evolution of this composition for my play, BEFORE AND BEYOND MEMORY.

Before And Beyond Memory, Take 5, 5 - 16 - 15. Stan Shawnee Boyd

Track 28, The Azule Session, 5/19-5/24/25. Sweetberry Times,

Kirtan, Primal Beginning, The Band

Vic's Riff

Victor, Guitar
Rondae Sound Healer,  hand pan, other
Shawnnee, keyboard

Aaule, 6-24-25

Azule, 9 September, 1818hrs

I Am At War With The Story bOf My Origins

Azule, Kirtan, 6, '25, Track 16

When As A Child, 9-29-25, WAV

Music Theater, Shawnee, lyrics and piano,  Shawnee and Ruth Hertzman-Miller en duet.

What's Left Is Our Song

What's Left Is Our Song, WAV

It's Done Mostly, WAV, Ruth and Shawnee

I wrote this song about five years ago. I've recorded it a few times and uploaded it on SoundCloud at least twice and got some play and even got some "likes" and downloads. I haven't felt like I got it right on any of those recordings. This one gets closer to the intent. 

When The Laughter Gets Swallowed Up, 12 - 12 - 15, New Take, Stan Shawnee Boyd. WAV

Title and melody, Miles Davis & Bill Evans. Lyrics, keyboard and vocal, Stan Shawnee Boyd. String arrangement & cello, Michael G. Ronstadt. Image, oil painting on Punjab, 2001, Stan Shawnee Boyd.

Blue In Green,Stan Shawnee Boyd And Michael G. Ronstadt, 4 - 6-16

Overture to the oratorio, ALL THOSE STRANGE YEARS. All lyrics and musical compositions by Stan Shawnee Boyd. Copy Right, 2008, Stan Shawnee Boyd, Home Brew Productions.

LUCY CREEK La Marisma Al Puesto Del Sol. Composed and performed by Stan Shawnee Boyd

Stan Shawnee Boyd composition, harmonica and keyboard. Irene Goodnight vocal arrangement and vocal. EARTH DIVINE is from the music theater production, SANTA HELENA, Stan Shawnee Boyd, 2020.

Mix 2.. EARTH DIVINE

Shawnee, composition, cornet, keyboard and percussion.
Image, oil and mixed media on canvas, 18"x26", Shawnee.

Marsh Walk

Shawnee, composition, cornet and keyboard.

Nostalgia

CREEK'S ON FIRE, Vocal & Keyboard, composed & performed by Stan Shawnee Boyd

I am a composer, trumpet and keyboard player and singer. I have uploaded a few covers, but for the most part what I upload on SoundCloud is my original work. I am of late a playwright. Many of the compositions on my current tracks are from my play,  STRANGERS, a completed script, score and sound track and on its way to staging. I suppose much of what I write could be classified as jazz/classical fusion, jazz in the third stream. I also tab my uploads occasionally as music theater. STRANGERS is a music theater play, in the vein of KNEEHIGH THEATER'S productions which I greatly admire. I'm always curious and interested in collaboration. Two of my tracks currently on SoundCloud are collaborations with the brilliant cellist, song writer, arranger and all around fantastic musician, Michael G. Ronstadt. Listen to a very fine album, ANCIENT AND UNENDING on SoundCloud that Michael recorded with the virtuoso guitarist, Bobby Fisher. Through the magic of MIDI I am able compose music with other artists remote from my home studio. This capability is thrilling to me. I want to do more of this. I believe SoundCloud is a catalyst for this kind of world wide sharing of talent and ideas.
Recent uploads are tracks recorded live with our band, ONE RACE, Kevin Onayemi Young virtuoso percussionist, and myself, Stan Shawnee Boyd, trumpet and keyboards, and whatever.

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