“Etude in E Major”(composed and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek 2012 copyright) Vladimir Horowitz once said that it is not always the finger-twisting fireworks pieces that wow an audience that are difficult to perform and control but often it is the more concentrated things like a “Mozart Adagio.” I have heard similar anecdotes from other virtuoso performers. A few years […]
This video is of Patty Peterson and me playing the Cole Porter song live in the KBEM studio. Kevin O’Connor of KBEM recorded on his phone. I have played with Patty’s brother Billy and her family, in general, is the a Twin Cities royal family of Jazz. link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGCZNRAB5KY
“Amber Dawn”Composed by Reynold D. Philipsek copyright (all rights reserved) guitars, bass-reynolddrums-J.R. Hammond This is an unusual tune for me. I don’t know how you would classify it. For one thing I use effects on the guitar which is rare for me. The reason I sort of rediscovered this one is because my niece told me it is her favorite
“Sasha and Dinu”composed and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek 2013 copyrightZino-Rephi Music (BMI) C Sharp Minor is a key that always puts me in mind and feeling of Slavic melancholy. Slavic melancholy is a condition that permeates a lot of music by musicians of that particular origin with myself included. This “melancholy” is not all sad because a certain nobility
“Matka”composed by Reynold D. Philipsek 2018 copyright Zino-Rephi Music (BMI)guitars-reynoldaccordion-Denny Malmberg Both of my parents passed on in the past few years. Suddenly I realized I had neglected to appreciate my heritage. My paternal ancestry came from Upper Silesia and more specifically a city in Poland called Opole. Quite rightly they settled on homesteads with other immigrants in Central Minnesota
“Picture This” In the almost 50 years I have made commercially available recordings (I made the first one when I was 15 years old), the recording world has changed greatly. Of course, in the beginning of my career, vinyl discs (45RPM singles and 33RPM LPs) were the creative medium. Later of course this evolved to cassettes and then CDs. Now