old-fashioned jazz and much more on this jazz site by Tim Lowe, musician and composer.
My band name on the internet is swingjazza, hosted by soundclick.com
Please see 'About' for more details, or just have a look around.
Or open a new window so you can keep listening here ("Listen Here" music will stop if you navigate away from this page).
21 January 2011
I've added a properly arranged 'Summertime' to my guitar page.
My soundclick tune 'The Old Forgotten Stone' was added into the classical music genre and managed a 'top100' rating, and my tune 'Old Sleepy Head' reached number 1 in the (admitedly not very busy) Dixieland Jazz chart, but was still a 'top 100' rating in the overall Jazz charts.
9 January 2011
I've added the following music links.
The Footnotes Rock, Pop, Country and anything else
DDDanrock great 'django' style guitar music
Etowah Jazz Society US big band jazz enthusiasts.
Please feel free to visit and listen.
31 December 2010
I spent the first half of this year composing, arranging and recording 16 new tunes under the swingjazza umbrella, and 3 under my other bandname "The Footnotes" which is generally my other (non-jazz) music.
As with every artform, this has been a learning curve because swingjazza as a concept and style only came into being this year with the purchase of my new recording software.
I created 3 jazz albums of 6-7 tunes each in this time. Most of the tunes on this site are from the third album which I consider my best, although there are some from my first and second, and the whole of my first album can be heard on the soundclick site.
A further 10 tunes/songs added on soundclick were previous, or re-workings of previous, recordings.
The second half of the year seems to have been spent creating this, and the soundclick website, and re-arranging and re-mixing most of the tunes to try to make them sound as good in the compressed mp3 format on the internet as they do on the PC where the file sizes are generally about ten times the size.
Hopefully I've got the hang of it now, and there won't have to be so much time spent uploading new versions of the tunes to see how they sound (or working out how to update these websites).
So, in theory, in 2011, I should be able to get back to composing.
That's the hard part, creating a tune and arrangement out of thin air. Wish me luck.
All the best for 2011.
