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On this episode we talk Oklahoma music with UCO's Director of Jazz studies Brian Gorrell.  Brian W. Gorrell serves as Director of Jazz Studies for the nationally respected program at the University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab in Edmond, Oklahoma. A former member of the Lawrence Welk Orchestra among many other professional accolades, Gorrell also serves as Advisor for UCO's Master of Music in Jazz Studies and Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance, teaches Applied Saxophone, and directs the award winning "UCO Jazz Ensemble I". Under his direction, UCO's top jazz group has been recognized for outstanding large ensemble performances in Downbeat Magazine's 35thAnnual Student Music Awards in 2012 and again in the 39thAnnual Awards in 2016. The group also performed at the prestigious Midwest Clinic in December 2013 and notably at the Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conferences in 2012, 2013, 2017 and the upcoming conference in Reno, NV in January 2019. Most recently “UCO Jazz Ensemble 1” tied first place in the collegiate jazz ensemble division at the prestigious Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival in March 2018 and will be featured on the main stage of the Monterey Jazz Festival in September 2018! Gorrell has also presented lectures on jazz and saxophone pedagogy at Oklahoma Music Educators Conferences, Regional North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) Conferences and at the NASA Biennial National Conference in 2016. He also currently serves as Music Director for the Oklahoma City Jazz Orchestra. Professor Gorrell completed a bachelor's degree in Music Education from UCO in 1995 and earned a Master of Music in Saxophone Performance at Oklahoma City University studying with acclaimed classical saxophonist Gail Hall in 1998.  Equally proficient on saxophones and keyboards, Gorrell has produced many album projects including "In Some Other World" (1995), "Soulmates" (1999), "In The Swing of Christmas" (2002), "Live at the UCO Jazz Lab" (2008), and as director, “Swingin' in 2012” and “Still Swingin' in 2015” with UCO's Jazz Ensemble I. A new album is also coming along in summer of 2018! In addition to the Welk Orchestra, he has performed with such diverse notables as Doc Severinsen, The Manhattan Transfer, Aretha Franklin, Louie Bellson, Phil Woods, Kris Berg and the Metroplexity Big Band, the OKC Jazz Orchestra, the Edmond Jazz Orchestra, Jay Migliori, Jay Daversa, John Daversa, Clark Terry, The Lennon Sisters, Ralna English, Patti Page, Slide Hampton, Kay Starr, Steve Allen, Jim Nabors, Ty England, Diane Schuur, Christopher Cross, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Drifters, Gil Goldstein, Randy Brecker, Dave Douglas, John Fedchock, and many others.  Gorrell has always been passionate about music education and has been aggressive in developing new programs at UCO including a Minor in Jazz Studies and Oklahoma's only Master of Music in Jazz Studies, with majors in Performance and Music Production. He founded the Oklahoma Youth Jazz Ensemble in 2012, which offers advanced jazz education to top high school students in Central Oklahoma, and in addition completed work on a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance degree at UCO that began in Fall 2016. The Oklahoma Jazz Educators Association has twice named him “Collegiate Jazz Educator of the Year”, and his band “Brian Gorrell & Jazz Company” have been performing regularly since 1995 throughout the Midwest. http://www.briangorrell.com https://www3.uco.edu/centraldirectory/profiles/3086 https://www.ucojazzlab.com This episode is presented by the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, telling Oklahoma's story through its people since 1927. For more information on the Oklahoma Hall of Fame go to www.oklahomahof.com and for daily updates follow them on social media www.instagram.com/oklahomahof #thisisoklahoma 

Another Electric Pizza concert I haven’t posted to the podcast, so getting it to your ears and really get to know what you’re in for with an Electric Pizza concert. If this makes you excited, then I’ve got news for you: the next Electric Pizza concert will be on February 3rd at the UCO Jazz Lab at 7:30pm. It is a free concert with free pizza. It’s also the same day that Power Cycle, the experimental electronic trio I’m in, will be releasing our first album of completely improvised music: Too Many Damn Cables. You can listen to the single on all streaming platforms right now, “A Beginner’s Guide to Arcane Summoning”. And if you’re not already following Power Cycle on the social media stuff, it’s @PowerCycleMusic on everything! Anyways, here’s the program that you’re gonna listen to/are already listening to: 1. Electric Pizza Theme Song by L. Keith White 2. Warm-Up by Power Cycle 3. How Beautiful It Is to Take In by Santiago Ramones 4. Lo-fi Lullaby by Breck McGough 5. Red Giant by J.R. Edwards 6. Three Meditations on Poems by Julia McConnell I. Boundless by Breck McGough 7. II. Visiting Home While in Town for a Conference 8. III. June Valentine 9. The Vicious Cycle by Santiago Ramones 10. With a Little Help from Our Friends by Santiago Ramones. Featured on this concert is Power Cycle: J.R. Edwards, Breck McGough, and me, Santiago Ramones, as well as (in order of “me remembering who was on stage by the final piece”) Stephanie Peñate, Keegan Darrow, Michael Blanton, Julia McConnell, Brian Lamb, Sam Magrill, Steve Hansen, and Tess Remy-Schumacher. Link to the videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtL7SzbBYkgYtvrsMFBefwrw-DaY5mZnm The concert was recorded at the University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab on April 10th, 2019 - "With a Little Help from Our Friends" The audio was produced by Bryan Mitschell and Santiago Ramones. The video was edited and produced by Infinitone Music, LLC - J.R. Edwards and Santiago Ramones. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/santiagoramones/support

Almost an entire year later, I’m finally putting this concert on the podcast. Power Cycle put on a concert at the UCO Jazz Lab on January 23rd, 2019. This is the audio from that. You can find the video for the concert on Power Cycle's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtL7SzbBYkgYvOKjZKO8rWm2XfGjyyD0o This is also partially to get you excited about our upcoming album, Too Many Damn Cables, which will be released on February 3rd, and the single, “A Beginner’s Guide to Arcane Summoning”, will be released tomorrow! You’ll find it streaming everywhere, I hope. 1. Electric Pizza Theme Song by L. Keith White 2. New Piece for a New Year by L. Keith White and Power Cycle 3. Icicles by Santiago Ramones 4. Winter's End by J.R. Edwards 5. Heart of Spaces by L. Keith White and Power Cycle 6. Lepidoptera by Breck McGough 7. Looper Games by Santiago Ramones and Power Cycle The video was recorded at the University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab on January 23rd, 2019 - "Happy New Year!" The audio was produced by Bryan Mitschell. The video was edited and produced by Infinitone Music, LLC - J.R. Edwards and Santiago Ramones. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/santiagoramones/support

This series of pieces is an anthology series exploring ideas in technology, humanity, and the future. Like Black Mirror but with music. These pieces were performed at my Graduate Composition Performance on April 11th, 2019 at the UCO Jazz Lab as part of the requirements of my Master of Music Composition degree. Due to the nature of how much work every music student is given each semester, some of the performances are not perfect, but I am happy with how well the show went. I highly recommend that you go to my website and watch the videos and look at the program notes with lyrics to really get the most out of the content. It was video recorded by J.R. Edwards and the audio was produced by Bryan Mitschell. The artwork was drawn by Nathan M. Kent and the Graphic Design for the poster and booklet was by Sable Ann. The whole Machinations experience can be found on my website: https://santiagoramones.com/podcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/santiagoramones/support

Since I am still dealing with a cold and still don’t want to be coughing into your ears for an interview, here’s the second Electric Pizza Concert, which was a Halloween show. This is a concert that I played on October 8th of 2018 with Power Cycle, an electronic trio that includes myself (Santiago Ramones), Breck McGough, and Jonathan Edwards. We’re all graduate music composition majors and we’re led by Dr. L. Keith White. Since this is a live recording, you can hear applause, talking, mistakes, and all the other things that can be heard at a live concert. You can watch the concert on Facebook through the UCO Jazz Lab page, which I would recommend, since there are a lot of visual elements that make up the show. The program is as follows: 00:16 - Electric Pizza Theme - Composed and performed by L. Keith White 08:20 - Prelude in Fear Minor - Adapted from Johann Sebastian Bach, improvised by Power Cycle 13:26 - Discomfort 2 - Composed and performed by Santiago Ramones 15:46 - Lullaby - Composed by Breck McGough, performed by Power Cycle 20:12 - Cocaine Nightmare - Composed and performed by Santiago Ramones 24:50 - Psychokinetoscope: Hommage a John Carpenter - Composed by Breck McGough (fixed media) 28:40 - A Ghost Story - Composed and performed by J.R. Edwards 32:31 - Nosferatu - Live scored/improvised by Power Cycle; short film edit by J.R. Edwards A note about Electric Pizza Theme: This is an omnisensory piece of music that includes hearing (music), seeing (looking at the performer and pizza), feeling (holding pizza), smelling (smelling pizza), and tasting (eating pizza). While this piece is performed, pizza is delivered to the audience. A note about Nosferatu: Jonathan cut down and made a version of the original Nosferatu film, which we live scored. You can find everything Jon Edwards does on his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tuneselectgo/You can find Breck’s music on his SoundCloud:https://soundcloud.com/breck-mcgough --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/santiagoramones/support

Breck and I discuss music, history, human senses, communication, and more music. Power Cycle (Jonathan Edwards, Breck McGough, and Santiago Ramones) has a concert on October 8th and it's a Halloween show, so bring your costumes that you've been wanting to wear all year! It's at the UCO Jazz Lab and it starts at 7:30pm. FREE PIZZA. FREE MUSIC. What more could you want? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/santiagoramones/support

In this segment, we hear from Edmond physical therapist Holly Jones, who is also a pianist and composer. She has just released her third album, “Storyteller” and performed a sold-out performance at the UCO Jazz Lab in May of this year. We hear from her as she talks about how composing music is "the way that she processes life" and how that informs her creative process. She shares a story of how she began studying classical piano as a child and developed her skills and how her particular style has evolved over the years. She then reflects on how her compositional skills were inspired by various popular songs on the radio. We then listen to her speak about how her life informs her music and vice versa, and the synergy between the two. She relays to us the importance of being fully present, being fully grounded in her own body, actually "being the music," and how she utilizes this as an ongoing practice that brings about peace in all aspects of her life, especially her work as a physical therapist. Ultimately, she sees her actual performing as a "conversation between both hands" as she plays the piano. She then shares her experience of traveling to Prague, Czechoslovakia in May of this year, in which orchestration was added to her piano album "Storyteller", orchestrated and conducted by Ludek Drizhal, and recorded by the Prague Metropolitan Orchestra. We then wrap things up as she talks about her goal of getting her compositions in film, and get a brief teaser about her next album, "Sacred Places". She plans to record both the piano solo version as well as the orchestrated version in Prague, benefitting from the classical influence of the region, and its inherent instrumental recording opportunities. Listen and purchase Holly’s music (which is playing in the background of the podcast) at https://www.hollyjonespiano.com/recordings