New Release June 2021
This music was written in the winter of the pandemic.
“Using a keyboard, I created the piano, bass, drums, and all other instruments you hear using the music sounds in the program GarageBand. Then I played my wind instruments, tenor saxophone, flute, harmonica, clarinet, and alto saxophone live through a microphone which went on top of this bed of sound. And like magic, we have the modern day recording!”
This recording is available as a CD, Digital Download, and on all your favorite streaming sites. For physical copies and to purchase directly from Jeff please contact me or via Karyn Gabaldon Fine Arts 970-247-9018
Enjoy these taster clips of the Yogini Suite below!
Please Enjoy These
"Taster Clips" which Bassist Eli Rio And Myself Recorded In October 2016.
photo: McCarson Jones
The Jeff Solon Jazz Trio with Pianist Jack Maynes and Bassist Ely Rio
This CD was released in June of 2014 with all of Jeff's original compositions and was recorded live.
Alchemy:
Over the centuries in all societies, magicians, sorcerers, chemist, and philosophers have put their minds and spirits toward discovery, innovation, individuation, and esoteric philosophy.
They hunt for, uncover, and collect unique ingredients, throwing them into the magic pot, heating the potion to the exact temperature, stirring carefully, adding just the right pinch of the special herbs, spices, magic, and prayers. Cooked to the perfect point, the elixir is ready to be ingested for individual and cultural transformation.
The music composer with the help from the muses and the universe, grabs wisps of energy, emotion, feeling, experience and organizes the 12 notes of western music into structure and shape, continually stirring the creative juices until the melody and the harmony solidifies into a song. Jazzer’s go one more step further and create their improvisation in the moment, never repeating it again.
For physical copies and to purchase directly from Jeff please contact me or via Karyn Gabaldon Fine Arts 970-247-9018 also available at your favorite streaming sites.
THE JEFF SOLON JAZZ DUO WITH GUITARIST KEVIN MCCARTHY
This recording is a conversation between two musicians that has been going on since Kev walked into my weekly Durango Jazz Session at Clancy's Pub in 1989. There are no words on this recording, but musical ideas, grooves, expression, spontaneity, tones, responses, emotions, creativity, textures, tensions, and releases. Plenty of words have passed during the road miles to Telluride and the regional gigs around Durango. The depth of those conversations and our individual journeys can be heard in this recording. We have also beheld nature in all its beauty and moods as we soared over the gorgeous earth as traveling jazz musicians. I'm thrilled to present to you another body of original music recorded with guitarist Kevin McCarthy. Kev, let's keep up the conversation.
Thank you for the gift of "Conversations". Wonderful compositions with a distinctive undercurrent of sophistication. Very pleasurable listening. Congratulations to you both. Ron Fundinsland, Public Radio D.J.
For physical copies and to buy directly from Jeff please contact me or via Karyn Gabaldon Fine Arts 970-247-9018 also available at your favorite streaming sites.
The J. S. Trio with
Jeff Solon - Tenor Sax and Harmonica
Joyce Simpson - Vocals
Jeff Sweet - Keyboard
The J.S. Trio was a group with Joyce Simpson - vocalist, Jeff Sweet - keyboard, who passed away after a long battle with cancer, and myself on sax and flute. We all have the same initials, J.S. so we called the band the J.S. Trio. Joyce is a wonderful vocalist and great entertainer, the tunes are jazz standards and are very accessible to a wide range of listeners. Sweet kept it all together with his harmonies and great left hand bass, and I put on the melodic color and the solos. This recording is from a live performance at the Mancos Opera House in 2007.
Video Links To YouTube:
Always Harp'n with Kevin McCarthy
The Golden Portal with Kevin McCarthy
The Jeff Solon Swing'n Big Band
For physical copies and to purchase directly from Jeff please contact me or via
Karyn Gabaldon Fine Arts 970-247-9018