(Composed and arranged by Reynold D. Philipsek 2013 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI)Guitars, vocals – reynoldPercussion – Michael BissonnetteAcoustic bass – Matt Senjem I’ve rewritten some of the lyrics to this song this past summer. We remodeled our house this summer so why not remodel some songs as well? It (new words) improves the whole idea too, I think. The idea […]
The past few months have inspired me to do a lot of self-reflection. If you’ve read some of my recent blogs or social media posts, you’ll see that I have even been sharing poetry that’s come to me during this time. This past month, I was interviewed on KBEM to talk about my influences in jazz and thoughts during the
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(Written and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI All Rights Reserved)Guitars-Reynold I have a certain fondness for this piece and play it often on gigs. When I play it with violinist Gary Schulte, it is especially good because he plays the melody so fluidly, and that isn’t easy. The harmonic “cycle” of the tune also appeals to
(Written and arranged by Reynold D. Philipsek, 1998 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI)Guitars, bass, vocal-ReynoldViolins- David Haugen, Karen DahlPercussion-J.R. Hammond In the late 1990s, I went back to a pretty intense Jobim period. I say “went back to” because I had already played plenty of his music since I was about 20. I came up with this song at that time.
(Composed and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek 2004 copyright Zino-Rephi Music BMI All Rights Reserved) More than ten years ago I came up with the idea for “Butterfly” while jogging in the woods near my house. I watched the circuitous fight of a Monarch butterfly and the idea of the melody and mixing bars of 3/4 with one 2/4 bar
(Written by Reynold D. Philipsek Zino-Rephi Musc BMI)Reynold-guitarHarmonica-Clint HooverBass-Matt SenjemPercussion-Michael Bissonnette Engineer-Stymie Seamans This song is my tribute to Joe Pass. I took a lesson or two with the great Joe when I was in L.A. in 1975 for a couple of months. I had a two-month gig backing up a folk singer there (sort of a Jim Croce thing). I