I was cruising along staying busy playing guitar on my jazz gigs. Every now and then there would be a more pop-jazz gig to add to my Sunday morning gig at Good Sam Episcopal Church. And the occasional Bluegrass session. And out of the blue I got asked to play bass in a ZZ Top […]
compilation of orchestral scores with grooves for various projects if you’re looking for more pure orchestra here’s my mid-size scoring demo Soundcloud link
orchestral instruments sometimes a little bittersweet / plaintive sometimes downright sad if you’re looking for a mix of pop and orchestra it’s here Soundcloud link
One of my favorite tracks. I wrote the tune on piano for a different ad, then had to adapt it for their online banking. So the brief was “a little bit electronic but retain the folksiness of the original.” Yikes. It’s electric harp – thanks Andreas Vollenvieder for opening that door – and fretless bass […]
In 2000 my client wanted to use Nickel Creek for a Kansas Health Foundation campaign. We had several :30 TV commercials and one :60 radio. This is the 60. Chris Theile, Sara Watkins and Sean Watkins were just kids when we did this. Soundcloud link
Keep On Believin’. In 1994 the players went out on strike. John Moores bought the team and gave the ad account to DiZinno Thompson. I wrote a big orchestral piece kind of like Randy Newman’s score for “The Natural”. This isn’t that. In the year after the strike the Padres did well. They played well […]
In the mid-80s Science Applications International Corp started producing a video annual report. It’s a very innovative company in this was a lot more interesting than a glossy brochure full of statistics. I started working on this annual project in 1986 and I did them every year until they stopped doing them in 2004. That’s […]
This is the opening track from NCR’s 1998 convention. It’s a little over 5 minutes. But the drum part makes it worth it. By 1998. I was pretty good at programming drums but I knew I wanted a real player to replace my demo drums. Todd Suchermann was and still is the drummer for Styx. […]
This is the American FlyBoys big band playing Island Stream My solo starts at 2:49 Soundcloud link