Studio Discography - January 1, 2010
Grant Clarkson solo albums 1993 - 2009 (137)
137. 12” Demure
9 tracks released December 2009****
Smooth fretless bass compositions
136. 12” September Song
7 tracks released September 2009**
Funk album featuring Leon Wesley on drums, the Pedulla bass, and a GB3 medley
135. 12” Supernova
11 tracks released July 209 ***
Electronica compositions featuring all - MIDI instrumentation
134. 12” Clown Car
8 tracks released May 2009 ***
New circus themed compositions featuring the acoustic upright bass and Richard Sellers on drums
133. 12” A Tribute to Jackson Pollock
2 tracks released March 2009 ***
Large-scale sound painting with MIDI bass - no barlines, no key
132. 12” Of The Nature Of Sound
1 track released February 2009 **
Improv session with the Delsoniq lineup
2008
131. 10” The Bill Ray EP
4 tracks released December 2008 ****
Four songs from Bill Ray’s drum tracks recorded elsewhere, then pinged to Licitysplit for my completion.
130. 12” Babel
10 ten tracks released November 2008 ***
Four-minute compositions in various styles featuring Rhodes and two horn section parts, including chromatic harmonica and organ from the MIDI bass
127. 3 12” Metamorphosis
4 tracks released July 2008*****
Triple Album inspired by the three act Wagner Opera, Tannhauser, featuring MIDI flute, French Horn, and oboe.
126. 12” Ambiance For Strings
8 tracks released February 2008**
All MIDI bass album to create ambient and avant garde electronica with ironically no strings at all.
2007
125. 12” Off Hand
10 tracks released December 2007 ***
Funk album on fretted Fender featuring the debut of MIDI bass on the Pedulla.
124. 12” Dojo
4 tracks released November 2007 **
Four solo bass improvisations done on Home - inspired by the book, “Zen Guitar”.
123. 12" Acoustic Images
8 tracks released November 2007***
Beautiful standards done in just acoustic upright bass and fretted electric; electric for the melodies and acoustic in the bass role and as the featured soloist
122. 12” Of Late I Think of Bexleyheath
8 tracks released August 2007 ***
Electronic dub-style compositions featuring two-part horn lines.
121. 12” Nothing to Say
2 tracks released July 2007 **
Solo bass album on the Pedulla
120. 12” Down From the Clouds
7 tracks released July 2007 **
Light summer songs with contemporary funk feeling featuring fretted piccolo bass.
118. 2 12” Double Entendre
12 tracks released June 2007 *****
Major double album featuring slow tempos and harmonic ambiguity as inspired by Bernstein’s thesis dilleneated in his lecure series, The Unanswered Question, featuring John Rekeviks, Mitch Manker, Lenon Honor, and Joel Piller.
117. 12” Flush With Cash
1 track released January 2007 **
Improviational session with Joe McDonald on drums and me on Upright, including bow. Avant Garde approach with elastic time and dissonance allowed, and only guitar following.
2006
116. 10” Illogical
4 tracks released December 2006**
Four-song EP from a session on Apple’s Logic with Nate. Some basic grooves and one ultra dissonant avant garde experiment complete with animal noises.
115. 12” Record 115
1 track released November 2006 **
Leon and I cutting losse again. I’m on Holiday. We explore a bunch of ideas, feelings, and grooves in one 40 minute cut like it aint no thang.
114. 12” World Famous Chocolate Glamour Fund
10 tracks released October 2006 ***
Melticulously made original album, with signature fretless electric bass, a blues, an original in 5/4 time, an instrumental Lionel Richie cover, and some good friends on horns.
113. 12” Apollo & Dionysus
10 tracks released July 2006 ****
Intense machine funk with the EUB and synthesizers. Also featuring Octavia-driven guitar work. Themed around the Nietzschean theory of the Ancient Greek theatrical experience.
112. 12” As Time Goes By
8 tracks released May 2006 ***
Vocal-oriented scmaltz and ballads, with the piccolo bass taking the vocal role, with Joe on drums (mostly brushes) and myself and upright, guitar and piccolo bass. Light and airy.
111. 12” Prodigal
10 tracks released April 2006 ***
Seven-layered exotic percussion underneath Lenon Honor on flute, myself playing bass ostinados on Home, two-part harmony arco bass, and piccolo bass interacting with Lenon as a ten piece musical suite based on the story of the prodigal son.
110. 12” California Adventure
1 track released March 2006 ****
Classically inspired session with the Pedulla and Leon Wesley on drums. One 45 minute piece without a break between LP sides like we always had to before to change tape. Clean guitar and subtle Rhodes.
109. 12” Intangibles
10 tracks released January 2006 ***
The first digital album, featuring the digital keyboard exclusively. New electro-funk compositions - catchy and relatively accessible.
2005
107. 2 12” Late Antiquity
8 tracks released October 2005 *
Bass multitracking on Holiday, recorded on the Island Princess while working with the Dino Fiumara trio, mixed down on another deck, making the final mix slow and flat, a guitar composition with recoding anomalies, and a random improvisation salvaged by Sky Ladd’s Rhodes overdub. Loose ends closing the anolog era.
106. 12” Through the Looking Glass
1 track released September 2005 **
The surviving improvisation from a session with Dave Pachetta and Nate Souders, wherein the first take which was lost was three times better than what remains here.
105. 12” Hidden in Plain Sight
2 tracks released September 2005 ***
Another improvisational record with Leon, bringing the Rhodes piano back. Home on side A, Holiday on side B, and a blister on my right index finger from having sat in with Fremin Rivero a few days prior on his bass player’s messed up bass.
104. 12” Whats New?
7 tracks released July 2005 **
Fresh off the long contract with the Dino Fuimara trio, these are some of the jazz standards we enjoyed, rendered here in duet arrangements by myself on upright bass and guitar.
103. 12” Time Versus Eternity
8 tracks released June 2005 ***
More machine grooves with second bass melodies, heavy guitar leads, and some dub and reggae grooves in addition to the funk and contemprary jazz tracks.
2004
102. 12” Casual Conversations
2 tracks released December 2004 ***
Debut of arco bass with Leon on side B, side a features Home with Leon on a larger drum kit and subtle themes that develop very slowly.
101. 12” Standards Volume 4
8 tracks released December 2004 ***
Real Book standards with upright bass, Joe McDonald on drums, myself on guitar and piccolo bass for the heads and some solos.
100. 12” Green City
10 tracks released October 2004 ****
Downtempo funk and dub grooves featuring fretted bass ostinados and guitar and keyboard melodies.
99. 10” My Peace
12 tracks released June 2004 ***
Gopel standards in two basses from piano book from Church of Joy
98. 12” Five Points
5 tracks released June 2004 ***
Five improvised peices for solo upright bass. Points, not ‘spheres’
97. 12” New Yellow Thing
13 tracks released June 2004 ***
Another electonic drum quartet album with me on all the instruments. Similar to ‘Kepling!’ but more compositional and accessible.
96. 12” Meet and Greet
2 tracks released May 2004 **
Improvisational intiation of Fermin Rivero on tenor sax and Leon in preparation for the May 14, 2004 GB3 show. I added some subtle guitar and that’s it.
95. 12” Very Early
8 tracks released May 2004 ***
Jazz Trio album with EUB and Joe on drums and Leo on keyboard. New standards with a light touch.
94. 10” In the Wilderness
2 tracks released March 2004**
EP with Joe McDonald on drums and Leo Dombecki on Triton keyboard and tenor sax. Messy jazz and funk with some reggae.
93. 12” Kerpling!
12 tracks released March 2004 ***
Another album with electronic drum tracks - this time the method was not to think at all. Everything was done in one take without listening to the track first. The result is fun grooves and some magic.
2003
92. 12” Olivet
2 tracks released December 2003 ***
Side-long cuts improvised with Leon Wesley on drums, featuring bass, Casio keyboard, and guitar. Funky passages hidden within cinematic tension
91. 10” Grant’s Christmas Album
11 tracks released December 2003 ***
Traditional Christmas songs played in two bass parts, taken from a songbook for piano from the Church of Joy
90. 12” Nacemiento
11 tracks released December 2003 ****
Electronic instrumentals devoted to the birth os Jesus. From the Casio keyboard come the beats, the bass lines, synth, and keyboard sounds. Some techno and ballad feels with minimalist harmony.
89. 12” Beg Pardon?
3 tracks released November 2003 **
Avant Garde composition featuring EUB, recorder, percussion and rhodes an side A, and electronica and solo bass on side B. The former has a Spanish modal flavor, and the latter has elements of Weather Report, Kraftwerk and the Art of Noise.
87. 2 12” Ever So Much Fun
18 tracks released September 2003 *****
A double album with the Yamaha drum machine and keyboard which turned into the score for a musical based on Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence and the Twilight Zone.
86. 12” Scmootz on my Doohickey
2 tracks released September 2003 **
A free jazz album with Joe McDonald. I overdub the Yamaha keyboard synth and guitar.
85. 12” Symbiosis
14 tracks released June 2003 **
Improvisational grooves from two different sessions with drummers Bill Ray and Leon Wesley. Bill’s are with a bass and click, then with two guitars. Leon’s are his own drum tracks, then EUB, guitar and echo trumpet.
84. 12” Cool Blues
9 tracks released May 2003 ****
Duet performances of new jazz standards featuring bass and piccolo bass
83. 12” Poolside
9 tracks released May 2003 ****
Another jazz quartet album featuring the Bingo lineup, but smoother with summer flavor and more swing.
81. 12” Be Bout Yo Business
13 tracks released April 2003 **
A double album kicked off with Bill Ray’s drumming from his clinic performance - some of which are loops. Side B is a solo bass marathon. Side C features the upright bass and two bowed upright parts. Side D is more bass compositions of different flavors.
80. 12” Conjuring
2 tracks released March 2003 ****
A free jazz triumph featuring Bill Ray on drums, Harold Todd on tenor sax, and myself on fretted bass and guitar. Conjures many moods and atmospheres.
79. 12” Ritualized
8 tracks released February 2003 **
A casual session with Leon creating some new grooves topped with rhodes and the debut of the piccolo bass doing the melodies and solos. Also features my version of John Coltrane’s ‘India’ with piccolo bass representing Trane’s soprano sax and the normal bass representing Eric Dolphy’s bass clarinet.
2002
77. 2 12” Clear Waters
21 tracks released December 2002 *****
A far-out double album featuring many songs written with the assistance of drum programmes from a Casio synth plus some keyboard works. Also features Tim Pacheco on muted trumpet on one cut and Reagan & Nate on saxes on another.
76. 12’ Bingo Parlour Romance
10 tracks released November 2002 ****
Light jazz standards and bossa novas featuring the electric upright bass, my jazz guitar work, Joe McDonald on drums, and Nate Souders on alto sax.
75. 10” Three Minute Songs From Hell
8 tracks released October 2002 ***
An EP culled from three LP sides-worth of jams with Leon. The result is short pieces that shatter the conception of a three minute pop song, thus the bland pop- type titles such as ‘Now You’re Gone’ etc.
74. 12” Las Veciendes de mi Ciudad
8 tracks released July 2002 *****
Drummer Bill Ray makes his debut at Licitysplit Studios. Done in two sessions, the first featuring the fretted bass this record has eight original compositions in different styles dedicated to the different neighborhoods of my city.
73. 12” Nothing Academic
5 tracks released May 2002 **
Piano, organ, clavinet, and keyboard strings improvisations in the avant garde style, but without the atonal pretensions.
72. 12” Things Stand Still
8 tracks released April 2002 ***
A collection of tunes with myself on all the instruments, including upright bass. Three originals and four covers - two Coltrane, one Hendrix, and one from a Twilight Zone episode.
71. 12” Deluge
11 tracks released January 2002 *****
Leon’s drums recorded at Ocean Way Studios whereupon I added bass, guitar, and rhodes on side B - based on the flood of Noah. A deluge of musical ideas and energy.
2001
70. 12” Cause and Effect
9 tracks released December 2001 ***
Another album with Leon this time with fretted bass, rhodes, and guitar - dealing with realities of the day.
69. 12” The Red Album
3 tracks released August 2001 **
Three shades of red, expressed in another electronic collaboration with Sean Hart. The weirdest yet.
68. 12” And Suddenly
10 tracks released August 2001 ****
A great album with Leon - bringing almost violent grooves of funk, jazz, and rock with bass, drums, rhodes, and lead guitar
67. 12” Inexplicable
9 tracks released August 2001 ***
Another record with Dennis Bandy on drums. Features some tunes from the GBCand GB3 catalog and a version of Ray Noble’s ‘Cherokee’ among other improvisational pieces.
66. 12” What Is It?
3 tracks released May 2001 **
The first side is a four bass ensemble running through several motifs. By part three, guitar and shaker is brought in. ‘What is It’? indeed.
65. 12” Pattern
11 tracks released February 2001*****
11 new original compositions with myself performing all the instruments - drums, bass, rhodes (with Univibe) and guitar (with Octavia). Classic GBC.
64. 12” Standards Volume 3
5 tracks released February 2001****
New standards with Leon Wesley on drums and myself on two basses.
2000
63. 12” Tearing the Veil Asunder
19 tracks released December 2000 **
Recorded at the Church of Joy with the house players - myself, Dan Quigley, andTodd Woolsley. An original suite based on the crucifixion of Christ.
62. 12” Witness
5 tracks released December 2000****
More beats from Sean Hart’s reel to reel, with my basses, guitar, rhodes, and trumpet added. Funky.
61. 12” Mr. Wesley’s Neighborhood
13 tracks released December 2000 *****
Recorded in Spring Valley with Leon Wesley on drums. Studio versions of many of the tunes featured in the GB3 live repiture.
60. 12” The Avant Garde Album
12 tracks released December 2000 ****
Synthesizer funk compositions, ambient synth tracks, trumpet improvisations, and some new jazz standards.
59. 10" Gathering
2 tracks released August 2000 **
Two part guitar EP dedicated to James Marshall Hendrix
58. 12" Communion
2 tracks released August 2000 ****
Two part solo bass suite dedicated to John William Coltrane
57. 12" Grace Notes
10 tracks released July 2000 *****
The first bass and drum session done at the present Licitysplit Studios location and the first with drummer Dennis Bandy. New compositions and two improved remakes of tunes from my songbook plus three jazz covers. A successful statement in contemporary jazz.
56. 12" Transmitter
2 tracks released June 2000 **
Another electronic-sounding record with the drumulator and the JD 800 but this time the sessions began with an electric accordion and ended with dialogue from two Twilight Zone episodes with Dennis Weaver and Jack Clugman.
1999
55. 12" Last Record of the Twentieth Century
2 tracks released December 1999 ****
Written and recorded in three days between Christmas and New Years 1999 using primarily Dan Quigley’s Roland JD 800 synthesizer with the Drumulator and some guitar on side B. Space age electronica and a good example of it.
54. 12" Indian Summer
13 tracks released November 1999 ***
Techno tracks from the Yamaha QY 10 with my basses, guitar, trumpet, and rhodes on side A with more techno weirdness on side B from the EMax Drumulator.
53. 12" All in One Day
4 tracks releases October 1999 *
Bass and guitar duet improvisation featuring trumpet on Bill Lee’s ‘Mo Better Blues’ and another duet version of ‘Chuck Roast Blues’. The rest should be taken under advisement.
52. 12" NicNacs
14 tracks released October 1999 **
Small pieces from my catalog and some standards redone and updated using just basses, guitar, and rhodes piano.
51. 12" Never Ending
5 tracks released July 1999 **
The last album to date done with Ed - A bass and drums duet of jazz improvisation signifying never-ending improvisation and collaboration,
50. 12" Still Life
2 tracks released June 1999 ***
Another solo bass album representing a still life painting with music.
49. 12" Electrofunctioning
7 tracks released March 1999 ***
A collaboration with MC Unorthodox from the Black Market Disciples. Side A is just bass and vocal. Side B is some hip hop with Unorthodox and Bucky Longhorn providing the beats. I’m on the bass and rhodes.
48. 12" Horror Story
2 acts released March 1999 ***
A rhodes piano soundtrack for a low-budget horror film, then narrated by Joel Piller, the only one who could do what he did on this album
47. 12" Constellations
3 tracks released February 1999 ***
Three solo bass pieces themed after three winter constellations.
46. 12" Chronic Catharsis
2 tracks released February 1999 ****
A session with Ed featured two side-long pieces with punk, funk and reggae movements.
44. 2 12" Temporary Tragedy Permanent Mystery
8 tracks released January 1999 ***
A double album with some interesting settings. Side A I play drums, five string fretless bass, and guitar. Side B features more Sean Hart grooves with Reagan on tenor sax. Side C is a 22 minute quartet piece with myself on all the instruments. Side D is another Farrakhan speech with experimental free jazz backing.
1998
43. 1 CD Orphans of the Stage
12 tracks released December 1998 **
Leftover cuts from the just-ended 11 month GB3 live engagement featuring all the different GB3 musicians. Some standards and obscure originals.
41. 2 12" Free
4 tracks released October 1998 **
Two sides of improv jazz-rock with Ed and an ambient side with rhodes and trumpet, followed by a solo bass side, much better than the previous solo bass recording.
40. 12" Grand Techno Review
13 tracks released August 1998 **
More techno tracks from Sean hart’s catalog of programmes. I arranged them and administered all the instruments, chrords and hooks. Heavier funk featuring trumpet, guitar, and basses.
39. 12" The Red Carpet
14 tracks released August 1998 *****
Collaboration with Sean Hart released commercially as-is in 1998 - a techno dance and trance album featuring guest vocalists Jahsun Edmonds, Alley, David Moxley, and Tim Pacheco.
38. 12" Just GB is Me
2 tracks released August 1998 **
An all-bass album named after my solo bass billing, Just GB. Later albums with this theme are better, though.
37. 1 CD GB3 Live at the Improv
7 tracks released June 1998 ***
Excerpts from several GB3 shows featuring Kevin Green, Ryan Moran, and Leon Wesley om drums, Reagan Branch on tenor sax, Vincent Grosso on rhodes, Joel Piller and myself on vocals.
35. 2 12" Spectorificadjunctification
13 tracks released May 1998 ****
This double disc earns its keep with four very different sides. The first features a rock quartet with some of my most adventurous guitar playing so far also featured on ‘Dispensation’. The second side features bass with digital delay creating the sound of a room full of basses. The third side is the most dramatic thing yet - the violent sound of unearthing suppressed memories.
33. 2 12" Music for the Manic Depressive Poetry Book
6 tracks released March 1998 **
This is a double album only because it feature instrumental versions and versions with Louis Farrakhan speaking at a church in Chicago. One side features electronic instrumentation and backwards guitar and the other is solo bass. Listen at your own risk.
30. 2 12" It's Called Borderline Personality
5 tracks together w/
32. + 12" Live Refreshments
9 tracks released February 1998 ****
This double is so out three it needs a live album to go with it. The former features Joel Piller on a vocal, a seven-pert techno suite, ‘The Musher’ featured on my second commercial release ‘Dispensation’ as well as the two-bass original ‘Plastic Saxophone’. The live cuts are from three GB3 shows.
29. 12" Record 26
2 tracks finished January 1998 **
Two side-long tracks with me playing all the instruments; drums, percussion, bass, rhodes on A, guitar on B.
1997
28. 12" Guess What, More Jams
4 titles competed August 1997 **
Features bass and drum sessions with Ed on side A and bass-only material on side B. Vincent Grosso from GB3 is featured on rhodes on part 2.
27. 12" This is GBC
9 titles completed June 1997 *****
The last record of the Pescadero location, this is all me on drums, percussion, piano/organ/strings/, and bass. With elements of funk, classical, and world beat, there’s some magic in here.
25. 2 12" Classical Trash
7 titles completed March 1997 ****
Another double album that has some long cuts that are also songs, with very specific structures. Ed gets some piano work in, and then the last side is another electronic opus featured on ‘Exhibitionist’.
24. 12" Margins of Blur
8 titles completed March 1997 ****
Features ‘Of Blur’ from my first commercial release ‘Exhibitionist’ - a nineteen minute exploration incorporating Ornette Coleman’s ‘Broadway Blues’ - really a reprise of the bass-only version which kicks off this album, followed by the trumpet vehicle ‘Mo Better Blues’ and an electronic suite.
23. 12" Urban Contemporary
4 titles completed March 1997 *****
Perhaps my first great album - in four parts beginning with a tough industrial grind, going into spacey dark funk, then light jazz and reggae.
21. 2 12" Curios
6 titles completed January 1997 ****
Another double album mostly featuring one track per side, with Sean Hart’s techno and my digital delay bass, a session with Ed, another with David, and then my drumming with my quartet plus a recorded speech with Louis Farrakhan, for entertainment purposes only.
1996
20. 12" Escape Artist
4 titles completed November 1996 **
Except for the first track, I play all the instruments on this album. This is a very different album, featuring abstract but pleasing music.
19. 12" Stuff
6 titles completed October 1996 ****
Solo bass, bass duet are sandwiched with bass and drum sessions featuring longer pieces featuring heavy keyboards and Moog synthesizer
18. 12'' Music for "The Big Change"
7 titles completed August 1996 ***
A soundtrack album for a non-existent sci-fi movie. Features many keyboards and weird sounds and percussion. The music does correspond with a storyboard that will be done someday.
17. 12'' Squalid Little Moments
10 titles completed August 1996 ***
A batch of unrelated sessions made possible by WMO sharing the same space as Licitysplit. There is an electronic Sean Hart original, an electronic Sean Hart version of one of my originals, and the fist three were done by reverse-enginering rap songs taped off of BET’s Rap City.
15. 2 12'' On and On
18 titles completed May 1996 ****
The first double album featuring many different settings. New effects and guests are featured. A meaningful original sound is starting to emerge.
14. 12" Dystopian Mood
11 titles completed February 1996***
A contemplative sound featuring lots of basses and rhodes, some with Ed on drums. The bass and drum sessions with Ed are becoming more coherent and substantive, yielding a few catchy tunes. The intro is pure hypnosis, thus ‘Sleep’.
1995
13. 12" Lilt
10 titles completed November 1995 **
A simple collection of grooves featuring David Carano on drums for the first eight parts and myself on bass, rhodes, and unaffected guitar.
12. 12" Advanced Industrial Society
8 titles completed October 1995 ***
The instrumentation expands further featuring Sean Hart and John Schroeder from Wise Monkey Orchestra on experimental noises, my drumming, Ed and David’s drumming and more bass, keyboards, and guitar to arrive into a five-part title suite.
11. 12" Desolation at the end of the Rainbow
9 titles finished August 1995 ***
Longer pieces groping towards a ‘theme album’ conception; seguing from acoustic to electronic and back again featuring again both Ed Fletcher and David Carano on drums and my performance on bass, guitar, prophet, and electronic percussion.
10. 12" Non Fiction from Babylon
10 titles finished August 1995 **
Shorter songs with Ed on drums. The title track features myself on steel pans, setting up a tropical feel. Side B features a new song written and recorded one a day for four days. Appropriately the first is ‘Song of the Day’.
9. 12" And Beyond
8 titles finished June 1995 ***
The first record done at the new Pescadero location of Licitysplit Studios. Features more drum sessions with Ed, one with David Carano, as well as some more guitar, percussion, and Prophet. Has some craziness, some sleepiness, and hooks as with ‘A Bee’.
8. 12" Cookie Monster
11 titles finished May 1995 ****
More two and three-bass original compositions featuring a couple of jazz standards and the debut of some of my drumming and Prophet synthesizer.
7. 12" Breathing Blue Tarp
19 titles finished January 1995 ****
A serious-sounding LP mostly of two-bass original pieces with three piano compositions recorded at San Diego State University.
1994
6. 10" The August Sessions
8 titles finished September 1994 **
An EP recorded in one session with Ed Fletcher on drums, rhodes piano on most and myself on bass, guitar, rhodes, and trumpet. Features a few unlikely covers and some new originals.
5. 12" GBC plays the Jazz Classics
12 titles finished September 1994 **
Almost all-bass versions of many famous tunes by 20th Century jazz composers
4. 12" Premise of the Messed Up Twirp
14 titles finished September 1994 ***
The fist full LP of original material. Many of these songs became part of the Plump repiture, the new trio featuring myself, Ed Fletcher, and David Carano. This lineup is on the cut ‘Hey Birdie Birdie’.
1993
3. 12" Grant and Ed Play Pink Floyd
7 tracks finished September 1993 **
Myself and Ed Fletcher perform instrumental versions from the Pink Floyd songbook. A tribute and the beginning of a collaboration that would continue with original music.
2. 10" Pre - Premise
6 tracks finished April 1993 **
Earliest originals without a band - featuring bass, guitar, and basic percussion.
1. 10" The Pre- Classics
8 tracks finished April 1993 **
Early bass versions of jazz standards the didn’t make the cut for ‘GBC Plays the Jazz Classics’. Some of the tunes are well done, if schmaltzy, such as ‘Days of Wine and Roses’.
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** = flawed - has moments
*** = standard quality for the time
**** = successful artistic statement
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137. 12” Demure
9 tracks released December 2009****
Smooth fretless bass compositions
136. 12” September Song
7 tracks released September 2009**
Funk album featuring Leon Wesley on drums, the Pedulla bass, and a GB3 medley
135. 12” Supernova
11 tracks released July 209 ***
Electronica compositions featuring all - MIDI instrumentation
134. 12” Clown Car
8 tracks released May 2009 ***
New circus themed compositions featuring the acoustic upright bass and Richard Sellers on drums
133. 12” A Tribute to Jackson Pollock
2 tracks released March 2009 ***
Large-scale sound painting with MIDI bass - no barlines, no key
132. 12” Of The Nature Of Sound
1 track released February 2009 **
Improv session with the Delsoniq lineup
2008
131. 10” The Bill Ray EP
4 tracks released December 2008 ****
Four songs from Bill Ray’s drum tracks recorded elsewhere, then pinged to Licitysplit for my completion.
130. 12” Babel
10 ten tracks released November 2008 ***
Four-minute compositions in various styles featuring Rhodes and two horn section parts, including chromatic harmonica and organ from the MIDI bass
127. 3 12” Metamorphosis
4 tracks released July 2008*****
Triple Album inspired by the three act Wagner Opera, Tannhauser, featuring MIDI flute, French Horn, and oboe.
126. 12” Ambiance For Strings
8 tracks released February 2008**
All MIDI bass album to create ambient and avant garde electronica with ironically no strings at all.
2007
125. 12” Off Hand
10 tracks released December 2007 ***
Funk album on fretted Fender featuring the debut of MIDI bass on the Pedulla.
124. 12” Dojo
4 tracks released November 2007 **
Four solo bass improvisations done on Home - inspired by the book, “Zen Guitar”.
123. 12" Acoustic Images
8 tracks released November 2007***
Beautiful standards done in just acoustic upright bass and fretted electric; electric for the melodies and acoustic in the bass role and as the featured soloist
122. 12” Of Late I Think of Bexleyheath
8 tracks released August 2007 ***
Electronic dub-style compositions featuring two-part horn lines.
121. 12” Nothing to Say
2 tracks released July 2007 **
Solo bass album on the Pedulla
120. 12” Down From the Clouds
7 tracks released July 2007 **
Light summer songs with contemporary funk feeling featuring fretted piccolo bass.
118. 2 12” Double Entendre
12 tracks released June 2007 *****
Major double album featuring slow tempos and harmonic ambiguity as inspired by Bernstein’s thesis dilleneated in his lecure series, The Unanswered Question, featuring John Rekeviks, Mitch Manker, Lenon Honor, and Joel Piller.
117. 12” Flush With Cash
1 track released January 2007 **
Improviational session with Joe McDonald on drums and me on Upright, including bow. Avant Garde approach with elastic time and dissonance allowed, and only guitar following.
2006
116. 10” Illogical
4 tracks released December 2006**
Four-song EP from a session on Apple’s Logic with Nate. Some basic grooves and one ultra dissonant avant garde experiment complete with animal noises.
115. 12” Record 115
1 track released November 2006 **
Leon and I cutting losse again. I’m on Holiday. We explore a bunch of ideas, feelings, and grooves in one 40 minute cut like it aint no thang.
114. 12” World Famous Chocolate Glamour Fund
10 tracks released October 2006 ***
Melticulously made original album, with signature fretless electric bass, a blues, an original in 5/4 time, an instrumental Lionel Richie cover, and some good friends on horns.
113. 12” Apollo & Dionysus
10 tracks released July 2006 ****
Intense machine funk with the EUB and synthesizers. Also featuring Octavia-driven guitar work. Themed around the Nietzschean theory of the Ancient Greek theatrical experience.
112. 12” As Time Goes By
8 tracks released May 2006 ***
Vocal-oriented scmaltz and ballads, with the piccolo bass taking the vocal role, with Joe on drums (mostly brushes) and myself and upright, guitar and piccolo bass. Light and airy.
111. 12” Prodigal
10 tracks released April 2006 ***
Seven-layered exotic percussion underneath Lenon Honor on flute, myself playing bass ostinados on Home, two-part harmony arco bass, and piccolo bass interacting with Lenon as a ten piece musical suite based on the story of the prodigal son.
110. 12” California Adventure
1 track released March 2006 ****
Classically inspired session with the Pedulla and Leon Wesley on drums. One 45 minute piece without a break between LP sides like we always had to before to change tape. Clean guitar and subtle Rhodes.
109. 12” Intangibles
10 tracks released January 2006 ***
The first digital album, featuring the digital keyboard exclusively. New electro-funk compositions - catchy and relatively accessible.
2005
107. 2 12” Late Antiquity
8 tracks released October 2005 *
Bass multitracking on Holiday, recorded on the Island Princess while working with the Dino Fiumara trio, mixed down on another deck, making the final mix slow and flat, a guitar composition with recoding anomalies, and a random improvisation salvaged by Sky Ladd’s Rhodes overdub. Loose ends closing the anolog era.
106. 12” Through the Looking Glass
1 track released September 2005 **
The surviving improvisation from a session with Dave Pachetta and Nate Souders, wherein the first take which was lost was three times better than what remains here.
105. 12” Hidden in Plain Sight
2 tracks released September 2005 ***
Another improvisational record with Leon, bringing the Rhodes piano back. Home on side A, Holiday on side B, and a blister on my right index finger from having sat in with Fremin Rivero a few days prior on his bass player’s messed up bass.
104. 12” Whats New?
7 tracks released July 2005 **
Fresh off the long contract with the Dino Fuimara trio, these are some of the jazz standards we enjoyed, rendered here in duet arrangements by myself on upright bass and guitar.
103. 12” Time Versus Eternity
8 tracks released June 2005 ***
More machine grooves with second bass melodies, heavy guitar leads, and some dub and reggae grooves in addition to the funk and contemprary jazz tracks.
2004
102. 12” Casual Conversations
2 tracks released December 2004 ***
Debut of arco bass with Leon on side B, side a features Home with Leon on a larger drum kit and subtle themes that develop very slowly.
101. 12” Standards Volume 4
8 tracks released December 2004 ***
Real Book standards with upright bass, Joe McDonald on drums, myself on guitar and piccolo bass for the heads and some solos.
100. 12” Green City
10 tracks released October 2004 ****
Downtempo funk and dub grooves featuring fretted bass ostinados and guitar and keyboard melodies.
99. 10” My Peace
12 tracks released June 2004 ***
Gopel standards in two basses from piano book from Church of Joy
98. 12” Five Points
5 tracks released June 2004 ***
Five improvised peices for solo upright bass. Points, not ‘spheres’
97. 12” New Yellow Thing
13 tracks released June 2004 ***
Another electonic drum quartet album with me on all the instruments. Similar to ‘Kepling!’ but more compositional and accessible.
96. 12” Meet and Greet
2 tracks released May 2004 **
Improvisational intiation of Fermin Rivero on tenor sax and Leon in preparation for the May 14, 2004 GB3 show. I added some subtle guitar and that’s it.
95. 12” Very Early
8 tracks released May 2004 ***
Jazz Trio album with EUB and Joe on drums and Leo on keyboard. New standards with a light touch.
94. 10” In the Wilderness
2 tracks released March 2004**
EP with Joe McDonald on drums and Leo Dombecki on Triton keyboard and tenor sax. Messy jazz and funk with some reggae.
93. 12” Kerpling!
12 tracks released March 2004 ***
Another album with electronic drum tracks - this time the method was not to think at all. Everything was done in one take without listening to the track first. The result is fun grooves and some magic.
2003
92. 12” Olivet
2 tracks released December 2003 ***
Side-long cuts improvised with Leon Wesley on drums, featuring bass, Casio keyboard, and guitar. Funky passages hidden within cinematic tension
91. 10” Grant’s Christmas Album
11 tracks released December 2003 ***
Traditional Christmas songs played in two bass parts, taken from a songbook for piano from the Church of Joy
90. 12” Nacemiento
11 tracks released December 2003 ****
Electronic instrumentals devoted to the birth os Jesus. From the Casio keyboard come the beats, the bass lines, synth, and keyboard sounds. Some techno and ballad feels with minimalist harmony.
89. 12” Beg Pardon?
3 tracks released November 2003 **
Avant Garde composition featuring EUB, recorder, percussion and rhodes an side A, and electronica and solo bass on side B. The former has a Spanish modal flavor, and the latter has elements of Weather Report, Kraftwerk and the Art of Noise.
87. 2 12” Ever So Much Fun
18 tracks released September 2003 *****
A double album with the Yamaha drum machine and keyboard which turned into the score for a musical based on Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence and the Twilight Zone.
86. 12” Scmootz on my Doohickey
2 tracks released September 2003 **
A free jazz album with Joe McDonald. I overdub the Yamaha keyboard synth and guitar.
85. 12” Symbiosis
14 tracks released June 2003 **
Improvisational grooves from two different sessions with drummers Bill Ray and Leon Wesley. Bill’s are with a bass and click, then with two guitars. Leon’s are his own drum tracks, then EUB, guitar and echo trumpet.
84. 12” Cool Blues
9 tracks released May 2003 ****
Duet performances of new jazz standards featuring bass and piccolo bass
83. 12” Poolside
9 tracks released May 2003 ****
Another jazz quartet album featuring the Bingo lineup, but smoother with summer flavor and more swing.
81. 12” Be Bout Yo Business
13 tracks released April 2003 **
A double album kicked off with Bill Ray’s drumming from his clinic performance - some of which are loops. Side B is a solo bass marathon. Side C features the upright bass and two bowed upright parts. Side D is more bass compositions of different flavors.
80. 12” Conjuring
2 tracks released March 2003 ****
A free jazz triumph featuring Bill Ray on drums, Harold Todd on tenor sax, and myself on fretted bass and guitar. Conjures many moods and atmospheres.
79. 12” Ritualized
8 tracks released February 2003 **
A casual session with Leon creating some new grooves topped with rhodes and the debut of the piccolo bass doing the melodies and solos. Also features my version of John Coltrane’s ‘India’ with piccolo bass representing Trane’s soprano sax and the normal bass representing Eric Dolphy’s bass clarinet.
2002
77. 2 12” Clear Waters
21 tracks released December 2002 *****
A far-out double album featuring many songs written with the assistance of drum programmes from a Casio synth plus some keyboard works. Also features Tim Pacheco on muted trumpet on one cut and Reagan & Nate on saxes on another.
76. 12’ Bingo Parlour Romance
10 tracks released November 2002 ****
Light jazz standards and bossa novas featuring the electric upright bass, my jazz guitar work, Joe McDonald on drums, and Nate Souders on alto sax.
75. 10” Three Minute Songs From Hell
8 tracks released October 2002 ***
An EP culled from three LP sides-worth of jams with Leon. The result is short pieces that shatter the conception of a three minute pop song, thus the bland pop- type titles such as ‘Now You’re Gone’ etc.
74. 12” Las Veciendes de mi Ciudad
8 tracks released July 2002 *****
Drummer Bill Ray makes his debut at Licitysplit Studios. Done in two sessions, the first featuring the fretted bass this record has eight original compositions in different styles dedicated to the different neighborhoods of my city.
73. 12” Nothing Academic
5 tracks released May 2002 **
Piano, organ, clavinet, and keyboard strings improvisations in the avant garde style, but without the atonal pretensions.
72. 12” Things Stand Still
8 tracks released April 2002 ***
A collection of tunes with myself on all the instruments, including upright bass. Three originals and four covers - two Coltrane, one Hendrix, and one from a Twilight Zone episode.
71. 12” Deluge
11 tracks released January 2002 *****
Leon’s drums recorded at Ocean Way Studios whereupon I added bass, guitar, and rhodes on side B - based on the flood of Noah. A deluge of musical ideas and energy.
2001
70. 12” Cause and Effect
9 tracks released December 2001 ***
Another album with Leon this time with fretted bass, rhodes, and guitar - dealing with realities of the day.
69. 12” The Red Album
3 tracks released August 2001 **
Three shades of red, expressed in another electronic collaboration with Sean Hart. The weirdest yet.
68. 12” And Suddenly
10 tracks released August 2001 ****
A great album with Leon - bringing almost violent grooves of funk, jazz, and rock with bass, drums, rhodes, and lead guitar
67. 12” Inexplicable
9 tracks released August 2001 ***
Another record with Dennis Bandy on drums. Features some tunes from the GBCand GB3 catalog and a version of Ray Noble’s ‘Cherokee’ among other improvisational pieces.
66. 12” What Is It?
3 tracks released May 2001 **
The first side is a four bass ensemble running through several motifs. By part three, guitar and shaker is brought in. ‘What is It’? indeed.
65. 12” Pattern
11 tracks released February 2001*****
11 new original compositions with myself performing all the instruments - drums, bass, rhodes (with Univibe) and guitar (with Octavia). Classic GBC.
64. 12” Standards Volume 3
5 tracks released February 2001****
New standards with Leon Wesley on drums and myself on two basses.
2000
63. 12” Tearing the Veil Asunder
19 tracks released December 2000 **
Recorded at the Church of Joy with the house players - myself, Dan Quigley, andTodd Woolsley. An original suite based on the crucifixion of Christ.
62. 12” Witness
5 tracks released December 2000****
More beats from Sean Hart’s reel to reel, with my basses, guitar, rhodes, and trumpet added. Funky.
61. 12” Mr. Wesley’s Neighborhood
13 tracks released December 2000 *****
Recorded in Spring Valley with Leon Wesley on drums. Studio versions of many of the tunes featured in the GB3 live repiture.
60. 12” The Avant Garde Album
12 tracks released December 2000 ****
Synthesizer funk compositions, ambient synth tracks, trumpet improvisations, and some new jazz standards.
59. 10" Gathering
2 tracks released August 2000 **
Two part guitar EP dedicated to James Marshall Hendrix
58. 12" Communion
2 tracks released August 2000 ****
Two part solo bass suite dedicated to John William Coltrane
57. 12" Grace Notes
10 tracks released July 2000 *****
The first bass and drum session done at the present Licitysplit Studios location and the first with drummer Dennis Bandy. New compositions and two improved remakes of tunes from my songbook plus three jazz covers. A successful statement in contemporary jazz.
56. 12" Transmitter
2 tracks released June 2000 **
Another electronic-sounding record with the drumulator and the JD 800 but this time the sessions began with an electric accordion and ended with dialogue from two Twilight Zone episodes with Dennis Weaver and Jack Clugman.
1999
55. 12" Last Record of the Twentieth Century
2 tracks released December 1999 ****
Written and recorded in three days between Christmas and New Years 1999 using primarily Dan Quigley’s Roland JD 800 synthesizer with the Drumulator and some guitar on side B. Space age electronica and a good example of it.
54. 12" Indian Summer
13 tracks released November 1999 ***
Techno tracks from the Yamaha QY 10 with my basses, guitar, trumpet, and rhodes on side A with more techno weirdness on side B from the EMax Drumulator.
53. 12" All in One Day
4 tracks releases October 1999 *
Bass and guitar duet improvisation featuring trumpet on Bill Lee’s ‘Mo Better Blues’ and another duet version of ‘Chuck Roast Blues’. The rest should be taken under advisement.
52. 12" NicNacs
14 tracks released October 1999 **
Small pieces from my catalog and some standards redone and updated using just basses, guitar, and rhodes piano.
51. 12" Never Ending
5 tracks released July 1999 **
The last album to date done with Ed - A bass and drums duet of jazz improvisation signifying never-ending improvisation and collaboration,
50. 12" Still Life
2 tracks released June 1999 ***
Another solo bass album representing a still life painting with music.
49. 12" Electrofunctioning
7 tracks released March 1999 ***
A collaboration with MC Unorthodox from the Black Market Disciples. Side A is just bass and vocal. Side B is some hip hop with Unorthodox and Bucky Longhorn providing the beats. I’m on the bass and rhodes.
48. 12" Horror Story
2 acts released March 1999 ***
A rhodes piano soundtrack for a low-budget horror film, then narrated by Joel Piller, the only one who could do what he did on this album
47. 12" Constellations
3 tracks released February 1999 ***
Three solo bass pieces themed after three winter constellations.
46. 12" Chronic Catharsis
2 tracks released February 1999 ****
A session with Ed featured two side-long pieces with punk, funk and reggae movements.
44. 2 12" Temporary Tragedy Permanent Mystery
8 tracks released January 1999 ***
A double album with some interesting settings. Side A I play drums, five string fretless bass, and guitar. Side B features more Sean Hart grooves with Reagan on tenor sax. Side C is a 22 minute quartet piece with myself on all the instruments. Side D is another Farrakhan speech with experimental free jazz backing.
1998
43. 1 CD Orphans of the Stage
12 tracks released December 1998 **
Leftover cuts from the just-ended 11 month GB3 live engagement featuring all the different GB3 musicians. Some standards and obscure originals.
41. 2 12" Free
4 tracks released October 1998 **
Two sides of improv jazz-rock with Ed and an ambient side with rhodes and trumpet, followed by a solo bass side, much better than the previous solo bass recording.
40. 12" Grand Techno Review
13 tracks released August 1998 **
More techno tracks from Sean hart’s catalog of programmes. I arranged them and administered all the instruments, chrords and hooks. Heavier funk featuring trumpet, guitar, and basses.
39. 12" The Red Carpet
14 tracks released August 1998 *****
Collaboration with Sean Hart released commercially as-is in 1998 - a techno dance and trance album featuring guest vocalists Jahsun Edmonds, Alley, David Moxley, and Tim Pacheco.
38. 12" Just GB is Me
2 tracks released August 1998 **
An all-bass album named after my solo bass billing, Just GB. Later albums with this theme are better, though.
37. 1 CD GB3 Live at the Improv
7 tracks released June 1998 ***
Excerpts from several GB3 shows featuring Kevin Green, Ryan Moran, and Leon Wesley om drums, Reagan Branch on tenor sax, Vincent Grosso on rhodes, Joel Piller and myself on vocals.
35. 2 12" Spectorificadjunctification
13 tracks released May 1998 ****
This double disc earns its keep with four very different sides. The first features a rock quartet with some of my most adventurous guitar playing so far also featured on ‘Dispensation’. The second side features bass with digital delay creating the sound of a room full of basses. The third side is the most dramatic thing yet - the violent sound of unearthing suppressed memories.
33. 2 12" Music for the Manic Depressive Poetry Book
6 tracks released March 1998 **
This is a double album only because it feature instrumental versions and versions with Louis Farrakhan speaking at a church in Chicago. One side features electronic instrumentation and backwards guitar and the other is solo bass. Listen at your own risk.
30. 2 12" It's Called Borderline Personality
5 tracks together w/
32. + 12" Live Refreshments
9 tracks released February 1998 ****
This double is so out three it needs a live album to go with it. The former features Joel Piller on a vocal, a seven-pert techno suite, ‘The Musher’ featured on my second commercial release ‘Dispensation’ as well as the two-bass original ‘Plastic Saxophone’. The live cuts are from three GB3 shows.
29. 12" Record 26
2 tracks finished January 1998 **
Two side-long tracks with me playing all the instruments; drums, percussion, bass, rhodes on A, guitar on B.
1997
28. 12" Guess What, More Jams
4 titles competed August 1997 **
Features bass and drum sessions with Ed on side A and bass-only material on side B. Vincent Grosso from GB3 is featured on rhodes on part 2.
27. 12" This is GBC
9 titles completed June 1997 *****
The last record of the Pescadero location, this is all me on drums, percussion, piano/organ/strings/, and bass. With elements of funk, classical, and world beat, there’s some magic in here.
25. 2 12" Classical Trash
7 titles completed March 1997 ****
Another double album that has some long cuts that are also songs, with very specific structures. Ed gets some piano work in, and then the last side is another electronic opus featured on ‘Exhibitionist’.
24. 12" Margins of Blur
8 titles completed March 1997 ****
Features ‘Of Blur’ from my first commercial release ‘Exhibitionist’ - a nineteen minute exploration incorporating Ornette Coleman’s ‘Broadway Blues’ - really a reprise of the bass-only version which kicks off this album, followed by the trumpet vehicle ‘Mo Better Blues’ and an electronic suite.
23. 12" Urban Contemporary
4 titles completed March 1997 *****
Perhaps my first great album - in four parts beginning with a tough industrial grind, going into spacey dark funk, then light jazz and reggae.
21. 2 12" Curios
6 titles completed January 1997 ****
Another double album mostly featuring one track per side, with Sean Hart’s techno and my digital delay bass, a session with Ed, another with David, and then my drumming with my quartet plus a recorded speech with Louis Farrakhan, for entertainment purposes only.
1996
20. 12" Escape Artist
4 titles completed November 1996 **
Except for the first track, I play all the instruments on this album. This is a very different album, featuring abstract but pleasing music.
19. 12" Stuff
6 titles completed October 1996 ****
Solo bass, bass duet are sandwiched with bass and drum sessions featuring longer pieces featuring heavy keyboards and Moog synthesizer
18. 12'' Music for "The Big Change"
7 titles completed August 1996 ***
A soundtrack album for a non-existent sci-fi movie. Features many keyboards and weird sounds and percussion. The music does correspond with a storyboard that will be done someday.
17. 12'' Squalid Little Moments
10 titles completed August 1996 ***
A batch of unrelated sessions made possible by WMO sharing the same space as Licitysplit. There is an electronic Sean Hart original, an electronic Sean Hart version of one of my originals, and the fist three were done by reverse-enginering rap songs taped off of BET’s Rap City.
15. 2 12'' On and On
18 titles completed May 1996 ****
The first double album featuring many different settings. New effects and guests are featured. A meaningful original sound is starting to emerge.
14. 12" Dystopian Mood
11 titles completed February 1996***
A contemplative sound featuring lots of basses and rhodes, some with Ed on drums. The bass and drum sessions with Ed are becoming more coherent and substantive, yielding a few catchy tunes. The intro is pure hypnosis, thus ‘Sleep’.
1995
13. 12" Lilt
10 titles completed November 1995 **
A simple collection of grooves featuring David Carano on drums for the first eight parts and myself on bass, rhodes, and unaffected guitar.
12. 12" Advanced Industrial Society
8 titles completed October 1995 ***
The instrumentation expands further featuring Sean Hart and John Schroeder from Wise Monkey Orchestra on experimental noises, my drumming, Ed and David’s drumming and more bass, keyboards, and guitar to arrive into a five-part title suite.
11. 12" Desolation at the end of the Rainbow
9 titles finished August 1995 ***
Longer pieces groping towards a ‘theme album’ conception; seguing from acoustic to electronic and back again featuring again both Ed Fletcher and David Carano on drums and my performance on bass, guitar, prophet, and electronic percussion.
10. 12" Non Fiction from Babylon
10 titles finished August 1995 **
Shorter songs with Ed on drums. The title track features myself on steel pans, setting up a tropical feel. Side B features a new song written and recorded one a day for four days. Appropriately the first is ‘Song of the Day’.
9. 12" And Beyond
8 titles finished June 1995 ***
The first record done at the new Pescadero location of Licitysplit Studios. Features more drum sessions with Ed, one with David Carano, as well as some more guitar, percussion, and Prophet. Has some craziness, some sleepiness, and hooks as with ‘A Bee’.
8. 12" Cookie Monster
11 titles finished May 1995 ****
More two and three-bass original compositions featuring a couple of jazz standards and the debut of some of my drumming and Prophet synthesizer.
7. 12" Breathing Blue Tarp
19 titles finished January 1995 ****
A serious-sounding LP mostly of two-bass original pieces with three piano compositions recorded at San Diego State University.
1994
6. 10" The August Sessions
8 titles finished September 1994 **
An EP recorded in one session with Ed Fletcher on drums, rhodes piano on most and myself on bass, guitar, rhodes, and trumpet. Features a few unlikely covers and some new originals.
5. 12" GBC plays the Jazz Classics
12 titles finished September 1994 **
Almost all-bass versions of many famous tunes by 20th Century jazz composers
4. 12" Premise of the Messed Up Twirp
14 titles finished September 1994 ***
The fist full LP of original material. Many of these songs became part of the Plump repiture, the new trio featuring myself, Ed Fletcher, and David Carano. This lineup is on the cut ‘Hey Birdie Birdie’.
1993
3. 12" Grant and Ed Play Pink Floyd
7 tracks finished September 1993 **
Myself and Ed Fletcher perform instrumental versions from the Pink Floyd songbook. A tribute and the beginning of a collaboration that would continue with original music.
2. 10" Pre - Premise
6 tracks finished April 1993 **
Earliest originals without a band - featuring bass, guitar, and basic percussion.
1. 10" The Pre- Classics
8 tracks finished April 1993 **
Early bass versions of jazz standards the didn’t make the cut for ‘GBC Plays the Jazz Classics’. Some of the tunes are well done, if schmaltzy, such as ‘Days of Wine and Roses’.
* = for fanatics only
** = flawed - has moments
*** = standard quality for the time
**** = successful artistic statement
****** = essential definitive work
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