Jazz and Classic Pop Music

Dr. Awkward

shufflocity — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:39:28 +0000

This tune & recording comes after about a month of no compositional activity. I’m not sure why the creative process is so unpredictable.

This work continues my “jazz-rock-fusion” stream, arranged for guitar, keys, bass and drums. As is typical, I actually play the guitar and bass parts and program the keyboard and drum parts.

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I Prefer Pi

shufflocity — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:36:06 +0000

This is my latest composition and recording, a jazz/funk/fusion number called “I Prefer Pi”. Please listen and if you have comments, by all means please share them.

I may finally be getting to the point — after almost a year — where I am about as productive in the Sibelius/ProTools environment as I was with my old Musicator software.

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Mercy Mercy Mercy

shufflocity — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:05:11 +0000

This is a tune I’ve done before. Something about it is very compelling, in spite of its simplicity. Written by Joe Zawinul when he was with Cannonball Adderley, the song cracked the top forty twice in 1967 — going to #11 with Adderley’s group in February of that year and with added lyrics, to #5 in August by the Buckinghams.

My arrangement is for my standard guitar, piano, bass and drums quartet.

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New Album Released

shufflocity — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:07:46 +0000

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/richardfranklin3

Spring Break 2012

shufflocity — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:04:34 +0000

Since there are no classes this week due to Spring Break, I thought I’d write/record a new tune to honor that week off. It’s a jazz/rock/fusion quartet with guitar, piano, bass and drums.

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Way Out Willie

shufflocity — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:13:59 +0000

This is another tune from about 10 years ago. It is a bit more involved than some of my other work, though it may not sound it. It is in a very standard 32 bar AABA format, but each “A” section is in a different key, and the “A” sections also are fairly tricky rhythmically — though there are no meter changes. The basic rhythm comes from the classic “Bo Diddley” feel. The title of the tune is taken to honor one of the many classic 50′s hits that used that rhythm – Johnny Otis’ “Hand Jive”.

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It’s a New Day

shufflocity — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:42:40 +0000

I first wrote, recorded and released this tune about 10 years ago. I thought I’d take another crack at it. It’s a jazz-rock number.

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Trying again with “Trying Again”

shufflocity — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:08:25 +0000

This a quick mix of a smooth jazz tune called Trying Again that I wrote a few years ago and redid today.

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Redoing “Up All Night”

shufflocity — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:53:13 +0000

Up All Night is another ten-year-old tune, the title song from my first album in 2003. Like the new arrangement of One Last Squeeze, this is re-done with a quartet setting.

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Redoing “One Last Squeeze”

shufflocity — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:22:50 +0000

One Last Squeeze is a tune I actually wrote almost ten years ago, and released on my very first album, “Up All Night“, back in 2003. I’ve always thought this is one of my better compositional efforts. I decided to have a go at redoing it using the quartet format that I’ve been working with for the past couple of years. As I’ve been doing recently, I played the guitar and bass parts and programmed the keyboardand drum parts.

The guitar is my recently acquired Ibanez GB10.

It took a surprisingly long time to develop this arrangement, but I think it works pretty well. I’m always interested in comments. Of course I really like positive feedback, but honestly you do me a favor if you let me know if you think it doesn’t work.

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