I was born in March 1960 in Lyons, France. EARTH IS REALLY BLUE AS AN ORANGE, when I listen to good music. I liked very very much the music of Naoki Fujii in these jazz charts, "Born as an Average" is one of my favorites. I'm a real jazz fan, but my biggest influence came from a Brazilian composer, not so famous, but one of the greatest for me, the formidable Mr EDU LOBO. Listen to it, I'm sure you'll like it!
Personally, I'm a real amateur pianist, playing piano as others practice yoga after working hours. I learned guitar over the two last years, just for fun, to accompagny my favorite Bossa nova songs: see Jason's Brazile site. I'm working as sales rep for an airline. My music is at 10000 miles from jazz, much more simple. I took some music theory courses a couple of years at university, but I don't remember a lot about it. I hope you will have time to look at my tunes and if you do so, I will be very happy that you let me know.
You can contact Sylvain Brunel at asbrunel@club-internet.fr.
Origami Yes, Japanese paper art. I listened to a famous Cazuza song, "Faz Parte do meu Show / It Belongs to my Show", by a Brazilian singer, and I was surprised that there were only major chords in his song: C7M/C7M/Bb7M/Bb7M: - : Ab7M/Ab7M/Db7M/Db7M: C7M/C7M/Ab7M/C7M/C7M/F7M9/F7M9. I tried the same but I didn't succeed...totally.
The Empire Had Never Ended page 1, page 2, and page 3. ("L'empire n'a jamais pris fin" in French.) Work in progress. I didn't put chords on it, as I'm unable to do it. I tried to use Brazilian chord variations (on the same chord). It doesn't sound Brazilian at all! Melody/solo refers to Zappa's work such as "Uncle Meat" or other.
Beira do Mar - Seaside page 1 and page 2. Bossa rhythm...but as a humble Erik Satie pupil could have written.
Da Boa Fortuna - The Good Fortune page 1 and page 2. Are the chords right? It starts as a bossa but carries on as a Choro, piano comp rhythm: 4/4: eighth note (root) quarter note (chord) eight note (chord) quarter note (root) quarter note (chord).
Original Jazz Charts / sam@bsharp.org
