James Bishop-Edwards
Guitarist
These videos and music are of interest primarily to family and friends, being mostly home productions and not of professional quality, but I thought it would be fun to share them.
Music
Honeysuckle Rose
My Romance – recorded at my apartment in Santa Barbara in the late 90’s. I was going through my “F. Scott Fitzgerald” phase (in more ways than one); reading his books, and Dorothy Parker’s, among others. Schmaltz has always come easily to me.
Tracks:
- 1 Honeysuckle Rose
- 2 My Romance
- 3 The Most Beautiful Girl
- 4 Makin’ Whoopee
- 5 They Can’t Take That Away From Me
- 6 All The Things You Are
- 7 Walking My Baby Back Home
- 8 Tea for Two
- 9 I’m Old Fashioned
- 10 The Man In The Moon
Canarios – Another home recording, and all ‘one takes’ with no edits; from 2004. I had just sold this wonderful Baroque guitar by Michael Schreiner, and wanted to document it before shipping. The Baroque guitar is a five string instrument essentially, but each string is doubled. What would be the low A on a classical guitar is tuned an octave higher. There is no low E. The Baroque guitar is essentially a treble instrument, with no bass register to speak of. Despite the imperfections in some of my performances, the music is really delightful, and shines through.
Tracks:
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- 1 Aria di Fiorenza-Calvi
- 2 Canarios – Murcia
- 3 Canarios – Sanz
- 4 Chaconne de Harlequin-Anon
- 5 Chaconne-Corbetta
- 6 Corrente Francese-Calvi
- 7 Forlana-Anon
- 8 Gavotte-Roncalli
- 9 Gigue-Roncalli
- 10 Gigue-Tancrede
- 11 La Babiere, Minuet
- 12 La Mia Donna Importuna-Calvi
- 13 Menuet-DeVisee
- 14 Passacaille-DeVisee
- 15 Pavan-San
- 16 Prelude-Corbetta
- 17 Prelude-DeVisee
- 18 Preludio-Roncalli
- 19 Sarabande-Roncalli
- 20 Sua Corrente-Calvi
Song of the Coast - Musings for Guitar and Violin
“Erato”
Musings for Guitar and Violin
James Edwards, Guitar
Andrew Ehrlich, Violin
Digital Download Only
Tracks:
- 1. Erato
- 2. Terpsichore
- 3. Euterpe
- 4. Calliope
Cowboy's Dream no. 19 by Dan Hicks
James and Dan Johnson performing at Andersen’s bar in Buellton, CA ca. 1976
Cowboy’s Dream – with Dan Johnson. Danny is an old friend I met in high school in the Santa Ynez Valley (just north of Santa Barbara); we played bars and gigs in the mid 70’s. To this day, Dan is still one of the best singers I’ve ever known. Obviously this recording is “low fidelity”; recorded on a cassette in a bar, just for fun.
Videos
Alborozo – possibly the strangest gig I’ve ever had. Certainly one of the more dangerous ones. I was just trying to play Spanish pieces that would fit what the horse was doing; it was completely unrehearsed. The trainer/rider said, before the show, “sometimes we will get a little close, but don’t worry”.