Music by Christopher J

Released to digital distribution on October 12th, Morning Joy, was my first venture into the EDM (i.e. Electronic Dance Music) genre.  And if I do say so myself, I think it's pretty cool.  Take a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

My orchestral emotional trailer track “Into the Light” was released on 1-July-2021 and was recorded with a 48kHz sample rate suitable for sync. After producing the music I decided to create this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Courageous Blues, to honor everyone affected by COVID-19, my newest track, is released today. What can I say about the past 12 months that hasn’t already been said or written about living through... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Yes, Alley Cat Blues is Live!  I finally put Alley Cat Blues into the music store and now is your chance to own your very own copy for yourself.  I think that would make you feel good all over, just... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Some “Hip-Pop Beats” for ya.  Maybe I stumbled into a new beat genre.  Just sharing a little bit from my next tune I’m working on.  This one will have some hip hop beats going... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Crosscut Saw is Live!  My cover of Albert King’s Crosscut Saw was actually released back on August 31st and I had meant to send this out to you earlier but I’ve also been in the process of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Here is the link to the mp3 version of Ringtone No. 3 for Key to the Highway! If you want a ringtone for an iPhone go to the music store page. That page contains ringtones that are already in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Here is the link to the mp3 version of Ringtone No. 2 for Key to the Highway! If you want a ringtone for an iPhone go to the music store page. That page contains ringtones that are already in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Here is the link to the mp3 version of Ringtone No. 1 for Key to the Highway! If you want a ringtone for an iPhone go to the music store page. That page contains ringtones that are already in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Here is the video for Hide Away.    I released my arrangement and recording of Freddie King’s Hide Away last week, on July 1st and then worked on putting this video together.  I wondered if... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Hi friends, It’s New Music Wednesday and Hide Away was released today and is now streaming on Spotify and other digital platforms. As always, you can find more info on the Music Store page on my... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Hey friends — Just letting you know that inspiration struck me and I finished some new recording and video editing in record time.  My latest recording is now on YouTube, or right here:... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Here is the video that goes with my latest single, Key to the Highway.  I’m on the road again.  A ramblin’ man I am. The post Key to the Highway Video appeared first on Christopher J... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Excuse me, but, what the hell kind of country are we living in now?  Have we become the USSR?  Communism — where the state (aka YouTube) determines what you can or cannot say? United States... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Freddie King has become one of my most favorite electric blues artists!  Before I did a deep dive into the blues I was aware of his name, that he existed, but that was about it. But after I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Hey everyone, I hope you are staying safe and healthy during these crazy times after a virus has turned the whole world upside down.  You might even be feeling a little bit blue. I know I have felt... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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I mentioned this a while ago that I decided, as they say, “to diversify”….. into providing sheet music.  I have been making notating scores, individual instrument parts and/or lead... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Hi everyone, I thought I would share my attempt at emulating the synth bass sound in Michael Jackson’s Thriller using the Roland GR-55 guitar synthesizer and my Ibanez bass equipped with a Roland... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Aloha! Here is a short video I recorded while in Hawaii of the Royal Hawaiian Concert Band performing the song “Kuhio Bay“.  This was on the lawn, under an enormous tree, in front of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

In October 2015 I released my cover of “Spooky”…….Just in time for Halloween….you can play my version of some Spooky music at your party or as background music as you open the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

As time allows I have been transcribing into notation some of my music and making that available on this site.  The full score for Opus 1 in my Bluesy Bach series of recordings, Bluesy Bach –... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

As I mentioned in the previous post, I had a busy spring and summer, so now I am playing catch up with my web site.  I had created a ringtone for Bluesy Bach Opus 4 (Arioso Für Elise) a few months... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

As I mentioned in the previous post, I had a busy spring and summer, so now I am playing catch up with my web site.  I had created the ringtones for my Opus 3 in the Bluesy Bach series a few months... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Hi everyone, Here come more ringtones!  I had a busy spring and summer!  I traveled to Norway twice, traveled to the midwest to visit family and I did this while continuing to write new music and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Hi everyone, I thought I’d share my quick install of the Roland GK-3B divided BASS pickup on my Ibanez 5-string bass. I have been using the Roland GR-55 for several years with my guitars.  I am... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

New Music – Arioso Für Elise!  I have just released “Opus 4” in my series of “Bluesy Bach” recordings. With this recording I  expanded the title from “Bluesy Bach” to “Bluesy Bach and Friends”.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Hi Friends, Here is the music video that goes with my latest song, Bluesy Bach – Opus 3 “Bachulele Minuet”, a musical adventure that takes us into ukulele land. You can grab a high quality (320 kbps... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I found a tune called Angeline the Baker in a book called “The Fiddler’s Fakebook” left over from my aborted attempt at learning to play the violin/fiddle. I never got rid of the book because I love... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Here is the link to Bluesy Bach Opus 2 Ringtone Number three — that’s 3 (Ave Maria)! Sure, you can listen to my music for free…..but YOU can help support independent music creation, by... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Here is the link to Bluesy Bach Opus 2 Ringtone Number 2 (Ave Maria)! Sure, you can listen to my music for free…..but YOU can help support independent music creation, by going to the music... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I am a little slow in releasing this since I actually finished Ave Maria in early April.  It’s part of my Opus 2 in my Bluesy Bach project. Bluesy Bach – Opus 2 (Ave Maria) So….here you go!... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Aloha my Bach Ohana! My latest “Bluesy Bach” adventure takes us into ‘ukulele land with my release of my arrangement and recording of Bluesy Bach – Opus 3 (Bachulele Minuet).... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Here is the link to Bluesy Bach Opus 2 Ringtone # 1 (Ave Maria)!  YOU can help support independent music creation, by going to the music store page, and buy ringtones (or song, or videos) for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Here is the video for Bluesy Bach – Opus 1 (Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring).  For more posts related to “Bluesy Bach”, including “Bluesy Bach and Friends”, click... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Today I’m excited to publish the second release in my “Bluesy Bach” project, Bluesy Bach – Opus 2 (Ave Maria). This is based on the Bach/Gounod version of Ave Maria originally... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Here is the link to Bluesy Bach Opus 1 Ringtone # 3. (Jesu Joy)  YOU can help support independent music creation, by going to the music store page, and buy ringtones (or song, or videos) for any... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Here is the link to Bluesy Bach Opus 1 Ringtone # 2. (Jesu Joy)  YOU can help support independent music creation, by going to the music store page, and buy ringtones (or song, or videos) for any... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Here is the link to Bluesy Bach Opus 1 Ringtone # 1. (Jesu Joy)  YOU can help support independent music creation, by going to the music store page, and buy ringtones (or song, or videos) for any... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Bach’s music intimidated me at first. It seemed too complex, massive and like a river or the jet stream, an endless spaghetti bowl stream of notes. But, yet in spite of that I somehow ended up... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

In an earlier post I talked about how you can add ringtones to your iPhone.  Today I discovered while working on creating ringtones for my newest song, Angeline the Baker, that somewhere along the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I have a book called “The Fiddler’s Fakebook” left over from my aborted attempt at learning to play the violin/fiddle. I never got rid of the book because I love a lot of the music in there and find... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Here’s a little video clip of a medley from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera being performed by the Evergreen Community Orchestra of Everett, Washington on Halloween evening!... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]