"Here two more arrangements. One is a two horn arrangement of The Song IsYou, and I included a rhythm part per the request. The second one is hardlya standard, but may still be fun to play in case anyone is interested. It¹sa three horn arrangement of a re-harmonized Israeli song from the 80¹s. It¹sgot a pretty melody."- Ben DoitalSong is You & Asher Tiel
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The last few years of Lawrence Williams' life were fraught with health problems and financial setbacks, but he never let himself get discouraged or depressed by them. Even when he lost his leg and couldn't play the drums anymore he treated it as a minor setback (if that). His reaction was to just compose more music and to start working with pastels. I've never met anyone with as much inner strength as Lawrence possessed. He was always highly grateful for everything that he experienced, even t... Read Full Story
Alphabet Soup is a Hip-hop/jazz band that was formed in the early 90's in Oakland by some of my close friends in the Bay Area. The first Soup gigs were in a basement speakeasy called something like Captain's Corner. This place served only beer and Jagermeister and was in an awful part of town, so bad in fact that when bands played we had to hire security to escort patrons to and from their cars. There were always voluminous clouds of weed smoke hanging in the air of this nautical themed conve... Read Full Story
I just discovered a very cool site called SoundCloud that allows you to transfer, share and sell music. The basic free membership allows you to upload up to five tracks per month. There are no limits on file size and you get a nice looking page with all your tracks on it. SoundCloud allows you to easily share your audio files on Facebook, MySpace, Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious, or by email.They also give you a widget, which I just added to this blog, that allows other people to send you music ... Read Full Story
