featuring Jazz Anthology Drums, Piano in Blue, Ample Upright Bass, VHorns

We Three Kings (take 2)

A soft jazz horn and vibraphone composition

When Softly Spoken

A short cinematic jazz composition inspired by my time in NYC

7th Avenue & 6th

There's always someone you know who just irks ya.  This song is about one of them.

IT'S HIM, IT'S HIM, IT'S HIM !!!

It's him - It's him
He's out of his mind
He's not making sense and he makes the dog cry
Well it's him - it's him - he won't tell us why
He's keeping us up and our phone lines are tied
Well it's him - it's him - it's him - yeah it's him

Help me end his ways
Lock'em in a crater rig on the moon
If we don't our kids will pay
And the future won't be any fun!

It's him - It's him
He's noxious and rude
He's got a disease and he's stealing our food
Well it's him - it's him - I wish he would c r o a k
He's leaving the lights on and that's why we're broke
Well it's him - it's him - it's him!
Good god it's him!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPDFUHCH8Do&index=30&list=UUq7UDOqXdL6_Zzd6OsmXXYg
Credits:
JT : Vocals, Anger, Programming, Guitar
Recorded and mixed at Sonic Underground Studios

It's Him It's Him It's Him!

Sometimes you just can't stop recording a track and want to give it a somewhat different treatment. Our 2nd take on 'Wise One' puts our admiration for this song on display.

Wise One (J. Coltrane)-Alternate

boom bap flip of "my little brown book" recorded by duke ellington and john coltrane

Little Brown Patchwork

Our take on this beautiful, and somewhat lesser known, Coltrane composition is to try and understand the synergies between wisdom and spirituality. The song form encourages introspection and spiritual ascension.

Wise One (J. Coltrane)

Improvised music produced entirely on the iOS platform using an iPad Pro.

Once A Blazing Grace

Acid IDM cover of Coltrane's "Countdown". Programmed with SuperCollider.

Countdown

Jazz Impressions is a radio show hosted by Geoffrey Fenton that airs live Sunday evenings in Chicago on WNUR 89.3 FM and HD1. Jazz Impressions streams worldwide via www.wnur.org, and the show is archived on www.soundcloud.com/jazzimpressions. This episode first aired in March 2025. Jazz Impressions. Where jazz is a reflection of life. This episode features major jazz works performed by the composers who created them.

ORIGINALS

I only recall the things I wasn't graded on.
No one assigned e.e. cummings.
How could you be graded on 
the mud-luscious goat-footed balloonMan?
Those poems just fell off the shelf 
into my hand
in a dusty used book store. 
So did the Tao Te Ching.
And that's what changed my life 
when I was thirteen,  
not my "education."

http://YourRadiance.blogspot.com/


"Education"

a cover of an artist who inspired me to make music as a child.

Love is Stronger Than Pride (Cover) by Antonio Murphy

Gibson Les Paul R4   1954  reissue Lead Guitar
Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins 
The Coltrane Albums on Impulse! had that Black and Orange spine  .

Black and  Orange

Jazz Impressions is a radio show hosted by Geoffrey Fenton that airs Sunday evenings on WNUR, 89.3 FM in Chicago and streams worldwide. This episode first aired in June 2025.

PHILLY

Carlos Flores: Guitar
Octavio Serrano: Upright bass

Body & Soul - Flores/Serrano Duo

My trio's take on "Central Park West" by John Coltrane from my graduation recital at Carleton University (2018). Begins with a solo guitar exploration of the changes of the tune inspired by Ted Greene and Joe Pass. 

Feat. 
Harrison Singer on Bass
Jamie Holmes on Drumkit

"Central Park West" by J. Coltrane performed by Isaac Isenor Trio(Live)

https://www.youtube.com/@triplethreatsnake
https://triplethreatsnake.bandcamp.com/

John Tabacco is an American composer, singer songwriter, producer, recording engineer, multi instrumentalist and graphic artist. He has engineered /mixed and mastered music for hundreds of New York recording artists as well as projects released on BMG: The Kemelions, RCA: Faze, Rampage/Rhino: Rhett Forrester, Columbia: Rebbie Jackson, Rykodisc : Bob Marley, Columbia: Chris Jasper, Electra: Sonia Dada and Nickleodeon’s Are You Afraid Of The Dark? He is the CEO of It Iz What It Iz Music Publishing which currently holds over 750 songs in its catalog. He has been an associate producer for IndiMusic TV and hosts a bi-weekly radio program (CLAM RADIO) on college radio WUSB.fm since 1999. He is currently the head of A&R at Modern Voices Digital Distribution.

His musical background consists of extensive study of orchestration with noted 20th century composer John Lessard, harmony with the late electronic music maverick Bulent Arel, and composition with Stony Brook University professor Peter Winkler. He received his BA in Music from Stony Brook University in 1983. 

Like an unfolding musical diary / puzzle, Tabacco’s music and art are constantly being re-worked, juxtaposed and intertwined. His style is a melding of pop - jazz -rock - avant garde / aleatory, classical and comedy.  He has been recording his music non stop since 1979.

Of note: In 1989 the satirical, absurd house song "Go House Yourself" co-written by Tabacco, Pati and DiMauro reached position 39 on Billboard's dance chart. 

In 2014 Tabacco signed a record deal with Texas, indie label, Muffin Records. They released his CD “Unfulfilled Shopping Carts Syndrome” internationally.

Jazz Impressions is a radio show hosted by Geoffrey Fenton that airs on WNUR 89.3 FM in Chicago and streams live from www.wnur.org.  Jazz Impressions. Where jazz is a reflection of life.

A celebration of jazz best described by our own term, "Popular Jazz". Our improvisations are executed in the service of the song amplifying relevance and accessibility for the audience.

PERSONNEL
Bob McMurray, piano
Dan Russett, alto and tenor saxophone
Mike Zuppa, drums
Jack Maszka, guitar
Connor McEleney, bass

All tracks recorded live at Underground Studios

Artist • Composer • Filmmaker • Producer - Tell your story by any means necessary.

Guitar pieces played on my Gretsch 6120 and Les Paul...and some Saxophone stuff too.

Fred's Amazon Author Page is: https://www.amazon.com/Alfred-K.-LaMotte/e/B00XILNI1Q/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1 

Fred lives on Earth, where he teaches college courses in Philosophy, and hosts poetryoga meditation circles.

"I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly." - Claude Monet

iG: @_antoniomurphy_

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