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I’ll be seeing you is a very popular song with countless arrangements. The guitar reaches this melody after a very long developpement of slow and dark percussion exchange, punctuated with oriental harp phrases. (continue reading…)

Maiden Voyage is a very well known Herbie Hancock’s modal composition from the mid sixties. Modal jazz remains a search for new atmospheres and sounds (continue reading…)

Antigua is a gorgeous theme written by Antonio Carlos Jobim. His harmony rolls on very complex set of chords that sound very natural and simple, as the music of this immense composer always does. The present intrepretation inlays the bossa nova into the Jungle and the exotic gongs of an alien place. As often, the improvisation ends with rythmic exchanges between instruments, but maybe dialogs between guitar and gongs are not that usual

Released December 21st, 2008 as the Third track of Ambient Jazz. Arranged and performed by Jazzcomputer.org.

Mood 73 is the only personal composition of the album. The jazz rock comes after large sweeping pads have faded into the sound of an electric quartet ; a distorted guitar chorus (continue reading…)