Sunday Music Muse Day - Jan. 27

Well, I've been listening to several odd selections this past week.   While working I sometime listen to KCRW Sound Eclectic online.  I find I alway hear something the just catches my ear.   Here a couple of examples.

 Asaf Avidan - One Day (Reckoning Song) - Live

After hearing the two Aasf Avidan cuts I like the original live cut more than the remix.   It nice to know there new tunes to discover.

To round out the week I heard this William Shatner, of Star Trek fame, tune.  "Has Been" sounds like a spaggetti western theme,  It's just fun.

Enjoy.

Sam Woodyard - Happy Birthday Jan. 7th

Here are two pictures I found on the web of my father, Sam Woodyard, from his pre-Ellington days with the Milt Buckner Trio.(That is Sam on the right) Happy Birthday, Sam.

Card Duel Video

Card Duel is a short video made from slides I shot for a art assignment back in my  art school days.  I don't remember which class the assignment was for.  But I remember having fun making the playing card characters.  Enjoy.

Sunday Music Muse Day Father's Day

I started this Father's Day with some Pat Metheny music. The "Trio" and "Quartet" CD's were a great way to start the day.

King's Drum and Ekun and Opolo Go Looking for Wives - Filmstrips

This past week I posted videos of two children's filmstrip I illustrated back on the '70's and '80's.  Both, "The King's Drum" and "Ekun and Opolo Go Looking for Wives",were based on African folk tales.  Read the description on the video post for the story summary. Also, in both cases I lost the original soundtrack and narration, so I added sound new background music.  In the case of The King's Drum I used a track by the jazz group Weather Report titled "Jungle Book".

Below are some concept art for Ekun and Opolo, and storyboards for King's Drum.  With Ekun and Opolo I was attempting a different style.  It was more cartoony than I usually drew on other filmstrip assignments.  I think I used Higgins's or  Penguin colored inks  and added colored pencil lines on the figures to give them a graphic look.  For King's Drum I started using Dr. Martin's dyes, so the colors are more intense. 

I still have one more filmstrip I plan to upload, but I'm hoping to find the narration, first.  Until then, enjoy.

Space Ghost Desktop

My good friend Larry Houston emailed this Space Ghost pic done by Jerome Moore. I liked it, so I made it my desktop pic on my iMac. Sometimes when I switch over from another user the screen flip looks like Space Ghost is flying toward you. I get a chuckle out of it.

Here's the original show action pack opening,  much like the Hanna-Barbara Jonny Quest animation show.

 Enjoy.

Sunday Music Muse Day - Steve Khan

  Today I picked out a guitar duo CD featuring Steve Khan and Rob Mounsey to enjoy with my Sunday morning breakfast of waffles and bacon.  Afterward I followed that up with some of Steve Khan's other CDs (actually I owned several on albums, first).  I must admit I didn't like Steve Khan's very first album when he was doing sort of standard Rock/Fusion stuff.  But starting with "Eyewitness" and "Casa Loco" he found a unique style and musical direction.  I grabbed the tune "Guy LaFleur" from Eyewitness as an example cut from youtube.  Also the album cover art by  Jean-Michel Folon was very cool.  The "Let's Call This" and "Got my Mental"  CDs are nice Jazz trio outings with tunes by Thelonious Monk, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter and others.  Very tasty stuff.

Check these album out if you get the chance.  Enjoy