From a live radio broadcast August 2014 of Stickman's Microtonal Power Trio, blues taken to the next level.

3 Stickman KUVO Bird Walk

From KUVO live broadcast: Wrap your head around this equation: it's still 12 bar blues form, but the meter pattern is in sets of three measures (thus 667 - 2 measures of six, one of seven), so metric pattern in 3 measures versus harmonic pattern in 4 measures (4:3)and just to make sure you're lost, in the fourth measure the bass line starts from above instead of from bottom. A mind bender, but beautiful tune, blues re-imagined in 19 tones to the octave!


Stickman's Microtonal Power Trio Live: 667 Shuffle

Another cut from our live broadcast August 2014 at KUVO, this one in more of a jazz/swing mode, but still in 19 tones!

Stickman's Microtonal Power Trio: Swing 19

Deborah "La Cocodrila" De La Torre (piano).  

With Ron Bland (bass) and Thomas Blomster (percussion).  Also with Patricia Surman (flute) and Randy Runyan (trumpet).

This song was originally written as the 4th movement of my Duo Piano Concerto titled "Almendra," in a sort of retro-70's style.  The two-piano version was premiered by some very accomplished students of a musical colleague of mine at the U.S. International Piano Duo Competition, and I later also performed it with one of them at a local concert in Denver.  In the two-piano version, the jazzy solo interlude is where the two pianists take turns doing a stylistic "improv." Yeah, but is it a baile or a rock or a groove? You tell me!

Coño! (But With A Swing)

Baile Cubano

Dirty Garage in the house : no lo tomes muy enserio. Macuilxochil voz, contrabajo David Tinoco.

COLLAGE ACARDENCHADO CON CONTRABAJO ADHESIVO LIPSTICK en el DIRTY GARAGE

El Tren De La Salsa Dura - David Lenis And His Orchestra

Local Cuban-American jazz pianist announces the world premiere of her debut album “Coño! (But With A Swing),” featuring 11 original tracks composed, arranged & performed by Deborah “La Cocodrila” De La Torre, with Ron Bland (bass) and Thomas A. Blomster (percussion), also Patricia Surman (flute), Randy Runyan (trumpet) Dave DeMichelis (electric guitar) Rodney Farrar (cello). Recording Engineer/Mixed by Tyler Reed Hayden at Rocky Mountain Recorders, Denver, CO

Baile Cubano

La Cocodrila aka Deborah De La Torre

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