At 23 years old, I had an encounter with the incredible grace and mercy of God, who intersected my path and radically changed the trajectory of my life. It’s hard to say what exactly brought me to that point but there were a number of incidents and things that converged in my life that led …
Recently in one of my bible readings, I had come across a verse which spoke to my heart… “Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” …
I finished doing this instrumental Jazz Gospel arrangement for acoustic guitar of my favorite hymn, “Great is Thy Faithfullness”. This song has always had a special place in my heart. I remember when my kids were little and one weekend I had taken them with me to do food shopping and when I had gotten …
When my kids were small (they’re grown adults now), our family attended a young church where I was involved with the music ministry. Occasionally, I’d work up a jazz arrangement of a favorite church hymn and play it as a solo guitar piece. It’s been years since I’ve played those jazzy hymns and I just …
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Description: “Triumphant Kingdom” is a tune that I wrote and arranged in a jazz/rock fusion vein. I had recruited my friend, Italian multi-instrumentalist, Giorgio Finetti to play the violin part on this tune. I was going after something that sounded epic in it’s mood. I was trying to capture, in a musical sense, the age …
This is another one of my jazz/rock fusion tunes. As in some of my other tunes, I wrote horn parts into this one as I’ve been very influenced by horn sections. I had played in a few bands that had horns and I loved the sound. This one featured my friend Richard Grose, from North …
