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Charlie Stanford

About Me

Hey y'all. I'm Charlie Stanford and I play the guitar. I also compose, but I can't play my songs because they all have weird forms. I should probably practice them. One of my earlier compositions, Pat's Dream, is up on the page already, and I'm hoping to post some new ones. I just have to record them first.Anyway, I'm not much of an award fiend, but I've done a couple of things. Thanks to the talented Ian Christensen, Jeff Picker, Grant Richards, Harry Mackenzie and Patrick Sargent, our band, the PDX Jazz Collective, won the small group award in Downbeat this year. I've also been accepted to the Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony a couple times, and recently, I was named Best Minor In Possesion (of a guitar) by the Willamette Week in their Best of Portland issue. They said I have "wonderous atmospheric guitar riffage." They're so nice.Check in momentarliy for new exciting things about me. This profile was made at www.marksgraphichelp.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 24/08/2006
Band Members: Pat's Dream- Me, Jeff Picker, and Drew Shoals Solar and What's New- Me, JP, and Jonas Oglesbee The band playing on 317 is the soon to be renamed PDXjazz Collective with Ian Christensen on tenor, me, Grant Richards on piano, Patrick Sargent on the slightly out of tune alto saxophone, Dave "Notebeams" Speranza on bass, and Jonas Oglesbeeeeeeee on drums. I play the second solo.
Influences: Jim Hall, Adam Rogers, John Stowell, Pat Metheny, Joshua Redman, Peter Bernstein, Keith Jarret, Larry Goldings, Randy Porter, Sonny Rollins, James Taylor, Wes Montgomery, John Scofield, anything with a beautiful melody and a solid groove
Sounds Like: Heaven
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Sweet Albums

Hey y'all! Here's a list of some of my favorite albums. If you have any self appreciation, you should go buy all of these.Larry Goldings- Whatever It Takes- A soulful, clever, funky, beautiful, warm, ...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:00:00 GMT

Pat Metheny on Kenny G

Wowzers. Check out this brutal examination of Kenny G. I posted this because Kenny G sucks. Kenny G is not a musician I really had much of an opinion about at all until recently. There was not much ab...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:58:00 GMT