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The new website is up!

After four years of absolutely no updates whatsoever, I completely re-hauled my website! Now it has a store!!! You can download my album, the sheet music we used to record the album, and transcriptions of all of my solos.

Here is one of the transcriptions synced with the live-in-studio video!

AND, because you are on the very short list of awesomest fans, and to celebrate the website launch, here is a 50% discount code, valid through the end of the month. Just in case you wanted any music…

Just pop in AWESOMEFANS-50 during checkout.

New Music!!!

ALSO, I’m super excited to announce a project I’ve been collaborating with has finally released their second album!!!

“hushed hands” is the name of Eli Wing’s solo project. Eli is an amazing drummer, producer, and experimentalist. We taught a summer camp together years ago, AND afterwards formed a short lived free jazz group together with monster guitarist Dave Ross, The Bear Necessities Collective. Since then, he moved to the Netherlands, and formed this solo project, which is wonderfully synthy, wildly chaotic, and genre destroying. You can hear me on tracks 2, 6, 7, & 9. But you should listen to the whole thing. On one track you can hear me playin an entire sax quartet behind a full chorus in a punk band playing math metal in a circus. That’s the closest way I can describe it. You’ll just have to hear it.

Stream on Spotify or buy on BandCamp if you feel like supporting monetarily.

Thank you all for your continued support! And for always reading, watching, and listening through this newsletter. It means the world to me. Let me know what you think of the new website! And if you have any suggestions, let me know.

Hope you are having a wonderful September! Sending good vibes…

~ adam

What I’m listening to this week…

(besides the new hushed hands album)

I hope this section of the newsletter doesn’t become a perpetual obituary, but it pains me to inform those of you who haven’t heard that we lost another great human and musician recently. Joey DeFrancesco passed away a few weeks ago at the age of 51. A monster player and a wonderfully giving soul with deep roots to Pennsylvania. He is one of my all-time favorite keyboardists, and certainly my favorite organist.

This week I’ve been listening to his “In the Key of the Universe” album. It feels very much like another chapter in the book of jazz mystics, along the lines of John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” or Pharaoh Sanders’ “Karma” albums. In fact, Sanders is a special guest on the album and they even cover one of his songs. Listening to this album gives me a feeling of hope, and takes away some of the sting of his passing.

A wonderful album. A wonderful musician. A wonderful human. If you don’t know his work, I highly recommend you dig into his whole discography. You won’t be disappointed. Joey DeFrancesco - In the Key of the Universe