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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- Choir, Orchestra, Small Ensemble, Big Ensemble, Other
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- Contemporary Big Band Jazz, 14th-16th century vocal polyphony, Stravinsky and friends
- Is music your main income source?
- No - Not at all.
- Where do you live?
- Bellingham, WA 98229
- About Me:
- Retired professor of music, 35 years on University of Alabama music faculty. I taught theory and composition as well as arranged for marching band 1955-1973, started Jazz Ensemble 1967/68. Established arranging degree program offering Bachelor and Masters degrees in Arranging. I still have my 747 tackle box full of music pens, inks, etc. but haven't written by hand since 1989. I am now quite proficient with FINALE on my Mac.
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Comment Wall (38 comments)
- At 11:33am on September 9, 2009,
Doug Henry said… - Well, it's been a long time. I am glad to see that you are still composing and fishing. I am teaching and playing in Charlotte still. We have a good quartet here and our second CD is coming out at the end of this month. Jim Stack and friends on Artist's house records. Send me your address and I will send you one. Let me hear from you. Doug Henry
- At 6:55pm on July 20, 2009,
Tim Clemmons said… - Hey Steve,
It's been awhile since we last spoke. I thought I would update you on a few of my new tunes. If you get a chance, go over to my page and listen to a few of them. See what you think. Of course, I don't have the talent in my whole body that you have in your little pinky, but enjoy.
Take care!
- At 12:00am on June 28, 2009,
Ronald (rolifer) Ferguson said… - Steve
I was just looking around while a piece was uploading and saw you. Miss you on the other site. You always gave me such great encouragement and I miss that. Nice to see a picture of you as well. I remember some of these pieces you have here. Cool.
Ron
- At 11:00pm on August 15, 2008,
Carolyn Keating said… - Hi Steve,
Thanks for writing. What you don't know about me is that I am also a huge fan of swing and big-band jazz. I like Benny Goodman, Claude Thornhill, and Django Rhinehardt, for example. It actually means quite a lot to me that you like my "classical" piece. I wrote it before I took harmony and advanced composition instruction, but I do feel that I have a good ear. I am also really into rhythm and therefore like dance music, which because I am an audio engineer, and am technically oriented, I have an affinity for. But I really respect people like you that "know" harmony and can write acoustic-based material. In any case, I believe that compositions that sound good and have an emotional impact are best. Thanks for the feedback, and I hope we can both learn something from each other.
-Carolyn
- At 1:42pm on February 25, 2008,
Steve O Sample said…
- Didier EUZET:
This looks and sounds quite professional, however due to my age and training, it is not a genre' that I am into. Thanks for the invite but I fail to see that we would have any mutual interests, so please accept my "no thanks."
Good writing and continued success.
Steve Sample
- At 1:17am on August 5, 2007,
Jeff DeMond said…
- Haven't seen Birch or Tommy in several years. Last spoke with Ricky Reed and Alison Prestwood a few years ago - both in Nashville at the time. (I always have to go find THEM). Haven't heard from Bethany in a bunch of years. I'm married 20 years this year, and have 14 and 17 yr old sons, so that's kept me off the streets for a while! My older guy is looking to play college baseball, so we've been traveling all summer with a tournament team showcasing him to college scouts. I'm off tomorrow to a week of jazz guitar 'camp' - 8 to 10 hours of classes and playing each day. My annual tune-up. Would love to hear what Steve and Marty have been doing. I'm also reachable at jdemond@bresnan.com if you'd rather not share all the personal catch-up with the whole group here. Do you know what the other NY folks are up to?
- At 11:06pm on August 2, 2007,
- Not enough space here for the first "Hey Steve" in nearly 30 years! As your former student I should say that I still dutifully play every day (even if it's at 2 am after the family goes to sleep!). Glad I found your hiding spot here - hope to catch up with you directly some time soon (and the other guys here, too).
- At 1:21pm on July 11, 2007,
chris gordon said…
- read the blog about them - i just wanted you guys to know that i had ventured out and had some projects for albums and releases - that genre and process is where the money is made and history is made in the industry - through popular songs. I did not choose the arrangements or productions sounds. that was left to the studios - except for like children, which has a live rhythm section recorded in a live setting and i played piano on that track, all others i wrote only the copyrightable elements - lyrics, melody, form, and harmonic lead sheet. Everything else is done by somon else for their stylistic and markting purposes. As far as the songs themselves are concerned - i wanted the melody etc to work in any style, as I believe good compositions can stand up to that standard. Thus the melody and harmony and form could work as a op song with larged production, as a piano melody alone, with singer and guitar, as a string quartet , etc. I think these tunes have some of that quality in them, in that they are "hookey" and melodically memorable, and have a form that is allowing of "arranging techniques" being applied to it - thus giving the tune a life beyond its original setting. atthe university we studied arranging and orchestration techniques. highly useful stuff, but dick and I found out that the industry moves in compositions which means experience with lyric writing, harmony, rhythmic style mastery, and hooks, as these can apply to songs, jingles, advertising and film. Dick and I leasrned these on our own and we are struggling to tame our own dragons for our own uses. Alas, academic "Jazz" degrees still do not train musicians in these reality based skills, thye now have fatr much less arranging techniques than we had and more improv i suppose with some history, whjich makes the students aware of the greats who did well at what dick and I are trying to do in composition - to add to the american popular song literature. But we only get to do it through the demands of others - how sad. Any way - just sharing may attempts.
- At 8:33pm on July 10, 2007,
- Steve,
I just posted 6 new songs I wrote because I just got Mp-3's of them to put up here. Give a listen and tell me what you think. I enjoy songwriting but don't get to do it often - here is the best of my work in this genre! ENJOY -
- At 9:08am on June 17, 2007,
Ken Watters said…
- Hey Steve!
GREAT to hear from you! Ya know, I've been meaning to aoplogize for acting like such a little shit during that unforgettable two weeks at U of A years ago. You were too kind not to kick me out...
How have you been? Where are you living these days? Looks like you're extremely active in the music world!
My wife & I are living in the Atlanta area & have no complaints at all. Lots of work there & a great & healthy live music scene (all styles). Plus, I'm in a NYC-based Caribbean band that travels to the French speaking world every few months, so I do 't go stir-crazy...
Fill me in on your happenings when you get a minute! Again, it was great to hear from you!
Ken
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