Blue Monk - Thelonious Monk

Chicago Coors x Zak-R-ē collab on an album with jazz inspired instrumentals. Released Jan 2023.

01 Bring Back Cool

02 These Days

03 Vibe Tonight

04 The Lighthouse (interlude)

05 Can't Save'em Feat. Abrijah

07 Wait For What

In three parts, with musical interpolations…
(1) from StarCYCLE DUO alpha Pyxis, the MONK movement
(2) DESERTS, by Edard Varese, 2nd part
(3) PHAROS, 1st movement, “Lock-in” CREGO / ASKO live in PARIS
(4) StarCYCLE DUO Eltanin, movement 2b

IMAGE: The little metaphysical miniature I discuss in the tape.

TALKING HANDS / TALKING FEET, “Natural sound…”

Three of Thelonius Monk's best songs

Sonix - Jazzy Funk

This is a bit of an excursion from my more contemporary fusion and sound-track material. Touching on an well known classic jazz-blues swing tune written  and originally performed by the great jazz pianist Thelonius Monk. Countless versions and renditions of this fun swinging tune have been done in the past, many by some of the world's great musicians. 
This is just me, with the addition of some wonderful saxophone work played by Georg Boehme (as soloist and multi-horn band).

STRAIGHT NO CHASER (Audric Jankauskas/Georg Boehme-2023)

two guitars and drums. Straight No Chaser and Billies Bounce mash up

Billie's Straight Bounce

All That Jazz | Chill Jazz Mix (Vocal, Japanese + Acid Jazz) | (The Treehouse: Vol 1)

The Weekend Jazz Update features iconic jazz artists, their life and times, and best music, also trending news from the Jazz arena.

Composer. Writer. Photographer. Former conductor & founder of the ASKO ensemble.

On a bike/ski/hike trek of the Pacific Northwest studying native plants & climate breakdown 🌲 from sagebrush sea to whitebark pine. Composing off-grid the whole way.

#Sun2Sound 🌕 on Bluesky

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto https://vimeo.com/844665859

“LOVE & WATER, three thought poems w/ coda, PHAROS for small orchestra, “Nightwind”” https://vimeo.com/847079690 

CURRENTLY on mt bike/ski/climbing trek through Pacific Northwest, working on a photobook about WHITEBARK PINE COLLAPSE and CLIMATE CRISIS. BASES in the WALLOWAS | AMSTERDAM | ALPS. 

WEEKLY photo/poetry updates at www.picture-poems.com & THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE new music, poetry & dance performance project at www.cs-music.com

ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT for progressive, tech-savy, instrumental virtuosi interested in dialogue & collaborative undertakings.

CONTACT cliff@picture-opoems.com
Or on SKYPE or FACETIME @cliffcrego

MUSIC? The one thing humans do,
that makes the rest of nature jealous.

Zak-R-e
Chicago to Phoenix
#WindySkillz

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WELCOME ALL to my SoundCloud page!

It's always a pleasure to discover through SoundCloud the wealth of wonderfully talented and creative musicians out in the world... all sharing their own distinct and artistic creations.  I'm very happy to be a part of this amazing, creative, and supportive community.

My main instrument is the guitar (mainly electric... sometimes acoustic). I also play on occasion bass and keyboards (strictly for recording on my own compositions).  Most of my music tracks on SC are created, recorded, and produced in my home studio.  Recently, I've been making good use of midi sequencing to ultimately produce tracks that I otherwise would find almost impossible to do by other means. 

Fusion (my mix of jazz, rock, funk, soundtrack, etc.) is the best way to describe most of the music that I produce these days.  I've enjoyed playing and recording many styles/genres of music in the past, and all these past musical experiences influence me today in the way I compose and play.

You will find here on my SC page samplings of new and older works of mine.  The track picture icons more or less help identify what tracks belong to other associated tracks. And I will try to present some extra information for the individual tracks for those that are interested as well.

Thanks for reading... and I hope you enjoy listening! 
Audric Jankauskas

welcome to my digital portofolio
professional sound designer, DJ & music-maker

New tracks tagged #thelonius monk