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    That Big Ol' Chunka Funk Is Back 5:44
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    Mr. Badass 9:35
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    In the Summer Times 6:46
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    Bag o' Tricks 6:17
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    68940 5:55
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    The Girl with the Flaxen Hair - Debussy 1:32
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    Out of the Plains 5:48
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    The Fifth Parallel 3:14
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    Bring It on Home 8:27
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    I-80 6:50
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    Dust Bowl 10:20
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    21st Century Ambition 3:03
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    Birth of a Movement 5:38
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    so se kwa 4:49
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    Millennium 7:45
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    Big Ol Chunka Funk 4:15
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    Funky Junkie (radio edit) 7:11
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    The Rockinest Band 3:48
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Composer and jazz saxophonist Kevin Pike loves a concept album. He has recorded and released 19 of them under his own name and with other musicians. In addition to saxophone, Kevin incorporates a variety of instruments into his recordings including banjo, mandolin, guitar, flute, lap steel guitar, piano, cavaco banjo, world percussion and various toy instruments. He also uses experimental recording techniques such as recording individual tracks in different rooms and locations, varipitch sampling (pitch and tempo manipulation) and layering ambient sounds from field recordings.        

Current Project: sax and banjo album        
The combination of saxophone and banjo is not that common other than dixieland music. Kevin is working on an album that combines the 2 instruments in many different styles, including jazz, funk, country, blues, third stream and Brazilian-influenced music. The album drops in 2024, but you can hear some of the tracks on this youtube playlist.

Kevin's March Madness Composing Challenge: write and record a song for baritone sax and banjo. Make it funky.       
(will post back in April the end result)

Concept Albums by Kevin Pike:        
'70s jazz/funk: Funk 204        
Brazilian corner club / world music: so se kwa        
free jazz intersects with folk music instruments: Out of the Plains        
garage band classic rock: Rock n Roll Wasteland        
experimental home recording jazz: microjazz        
saxophone EDM: Funky Junkie        
recomposed free jazz: Fractured Intuition        
contemporary compositions from recorded sounds in the world around us: The Sound of Things        
Beethoven, Bach and Debussy on saxophone: Wachet Auf und Spielt das Saxophon        
theme music for your podcast: Podcast Music        
solo banjo covers: Songs in the Key of Banjo        
pandemic era progressive jazz: Pandemic Tunes        
sax and drums free jazz duo: pulse/flow        
sax and banjo together: Saxojo        
modern instrumental Christmas music: Christmas Snowballin'        
jazz duets: One By One        
cover songs