New Jazz Piece

Hey guys heres my newest piece that I finished not too long ago

it's kind of got a slight Carla Bley influence in it, although I still tried to use some classical harmonies along with the Jazz harmonies.

Some of it is improvised, which is kind of a must for jazz in my book :D

The idea was to try to capture the ups and downs that love takes you through in life. As "Liebe" means love in German.

Any comments appreciated

SoundClick artist: William Daniel Kirkland - I am a quirky steel string playing classical guitarist with a cheeseball slew of influences

Hey that was interesting!

First to say, your guitar sounds a bit to raw and ruff. I think you should deal more with the recording process and techniques.

I like the harmonies, they flow. They remind me of some songs of a bend from Serbia called Smak. And there is a nice part that hears like Piazolla.

I like your ideas. But I must say that you have to do more with dynamic of a song. A part, and repeated A part must be stronger then the rest if you know what I mean. Like in jazz, when a theme is played.

It is interesting, I like your harmonies, but would love to here some melodic minor or whole tone or bop notes! That would make it a bit more jazz.

All in all, it is brave and that's good!

Interesting. I like the harmonies - it flows in that guitarry-Pat-Metheny sort of way.

Melodically I think it could have been a bit stronger, but there was still a lot of great things in it.

I disagree with Igor's comments about dynamics and how Themes "must be stronger than the rest". While you certainly could have brought out the dynamical contour a lot more, it doesn't have to be the Themes that get that treatment.

The peak in energy in a piece comes (usually) at the 80% mark...yours, Will, doesn't seem to evolve or build as much as I would like to hear.

I also don't really agree with Igor wanting to hear more melodic-minor, whole-tone and bop-notes. Sometimes that kind of harmony isn't appropriate for a tune...and perhaps this is one of them. I think the music is solid and could just use a bit more refinement in the "presentational" methods. Give us more energy, more passion - exaggerate the hell out of it, because it's sometimes not coming across.

Thanks for the comments guys :D

Yeah, listening to it again I can hear what you guys mean about the dynamics, it is a little bland hehe..

Igor: As far as "Theme A" goes, it doesn't nessecarily have to be stronger than any other part of the piece. While I do agree about the dynamics, sometimes the "A" section is the smallest part. It's really more circumstantial

Robin: Thanks for the advice, I do agree about the dynamics, I guess since it was still a new composition I hadn't really let it sink in and thought about where I could take it. I will take your advice on that :)