Joel's Compositions Joel's Performances

Here's some Jazz and Otherwise I have played with People

Lisboa III by Fred Frith is a free improv with a picture of a manhole cover and some cobblestones as a score. In music like this, the performers take part in the composition - just like in my Noun Verb Noun piece. See Fred Frith, Brick Glass Stone and Wire (or something) for more of these neat pieces of which Lisboa II is one of the most free. Performers here Are Joel Ford on soprano saxophone, Harlan Otter on Piano who trades off to Eric Kollars on piano.

Tmunt is a Traditional Berber piece arranged by Abdel Fatah performed here by Joel Ford (soprano Sax) and Abdel Fatah (Ud). I play in a band with him called AZA.

Jazz

So i play the Jazz. I am no Jazz hero - I usually have to read a chart to play it well, and this is frowned upon in the truest jazz circles, but I think I do alright.

Cherokee Sketches by Some French Guy

Moment's Notice by John Coltrane

Afro Blue by Mongo Santamaria

Interplay by Bill Evans

St Thomas by Sonny Rollins

Long ago and Far Away by Jerome Kern

There are so many more recordings of me playing Music with cool people. But these are nice ^_^

More to come!