The Drumless-Snap Quarter-Electric Jazz Quartet

The Drumless-Snap Quarter-Electric Jazz Quartet

“The Drumless-Snap Quarter-Electric Jazz Quartet” is a new project that I am embarking in the realm of jazz music. As a solo artist, recording jazz music proves slightly problematic - jazz traditionally is based around on the interactions of several musicians playing together. It also proves problematic because I can’t play or program drums to save my life.

So doing traditional jazz recording would be a bit of a problem for me. The solution? Do non-traditional jazz - unorthodox, if you will. Thus, The Drumless-Snap Quarter-Electric Jazz Quartet (or the DSQEJQ - pronounced “dis-qwe-ji-kuh”) is born.

The DSQEJQ’s instrumentation is as follows:

  • Jazz accordion (filling the role of a jazz piano)
  • Jazz melodica (taking the lead line)
  • Cassie on acoustic bass (Cassie being an electric Casio keyboard, hence the “Quarter-Electric”)
  • Snaps (filling the role of percussion, hence the “Drumless-Snap”)
My goal with the Quartet is to hit some of my favorite tunes, jazz standards, original compositions, pop-jazz covers, and whatever else I feel inclined to record - but also to experiment with jazz and - dare I say it - push the envelope a little bit; try to find some uncharted territory to take it into. Profound, yes - but also keep in mind probably facetious. 

TRACKS

(or “cuts” as they call them)

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“Spain” by Chick Corea
Download “Spain”

“‘Till There Was You” by Meredith Willson
Download “‘Till There Was You” 

“Peaches en Regalia” by Frank Zappa
Download “Peaches en Regalia”

“Autumn Leaves” by Joseph Kosma (made famous by Bill Evans)
 Download “Autumn Leaves”

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