Third Stream Jazz.
Victor Granquist, Guitar
Onayemi Olalekan, Percussion
Ophelia Cohen, Vocal, percussion, didgeridoo
Rondae Skillings, didgeridoo, mouth harp, throat singing
Shawnee, trumpet, cornet.

Saturday Night Track Two, 9-21-21

Victor Granquist, Guitar
Ophelia Cohen, Vocals, Didgeridoo, Percussion
Onayemi Olalekan, Percussion
Rondae Skillings, Sound Healing, Didgeridoo, Mouth Harp
Shawnee, Trumpet/Cornet

Saturday Night 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

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.

Harmonica improvisation, spoken word (improvised spontaneous "script)

MacArthur Boulevard. An Old Love Affair, Excerpt from the Oratorio

Music Theater. Street Theater.
All script, music compositions and music performance by Shawnee Boyd except "Nostalgia: The Finale" voice and lyrics by Irene Goodnight.

MacArthur Boulevard, An Old Love Affair

Postscript: MacArthur Boulevard, An Old Love Affair

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

Jazz Meditation In C minor

From ancestral series, Primal Beginnings.

Adagio, Before And Beyond Memory,

from the oratorio, "Before And Beyond Memory", the ancestral series, Primal Beginnings. 
Music and words, Shawnee Boyd, vocal arrangement and voice, Irene Goodnight.

Before And Beyond Memory I

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

Spoken Word, instrumental accompaniment, read aloud, harmonica and keyboard accompaniment, Shawnee Boyd. Written text, Shawnee Boyd.
Image, self portrait, acrylic on 16"x20" canvas, 2002.

Genealogy, A Requiem

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

Up Town Blues, Stan Shawnee Boyd, 1 - 5-15. WAV

'Cause There's Nowhere Else To Go, Stan Shawnee Boyd, 1 - 10 - 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

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

Onayemi Young all percussion, Stan Shawnee Boyd trumpet and keyboards.

Vibin' Live At The Farmers Market, July 13, 2019, Jam One

A composition by Stan Shawnee Boyd performed in forum at the Walden School Creative Musicians Retreat, Dublin School, Dublin,N.H., summer solstice, 2019
*Osnat Netzer, piano 
*D. J. Sparr, Electric Guitar
*Matt Gold, Percussion
*Stan Shawnee Boyd, Cornet

Sonata In The Third Stream (Exposition) - 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

Finale to my music theater production, ALL THOSE STRANGE YEARS, composed and performed by Stan Shawnee Boyd. Copy right, Stan Shawnee Boyd, Home Brew Productions, 2013.

ALL THOSE STRANGE YEARS, WAV, 5-21-13, 0945, Stan Shawnee Boyd

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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