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Formed: 1998
Official Site: www.samcrain.com/
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Sam Crain
Biographical info
b.1954, Springfield IL. Brother Josh(b.
1958)mother Jacqueline(b. 1929), father
John(1927-1993)was jazz trombonist. Piano lessons
from very
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
04/30/08
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1 Comments | Free | 4.2 | Oop Bop Sh'Bang | Comment Title: outstanding sound
Really love your work here.
excellent clean sound.
you laid down some perfect tracks.
Keep up the good work.
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Sam Crain
Biographical info
b.1954, Springfield IL. Brother Josh(b.
1958)mother Jacqueline(b. 1929), father
John(1927-1993)was jazz trombonist. Piano lessons
from very
early age, took up guitar age 12. First jazz experience at
age 14, as bassist(string & electric)with The Bob Graham Quartet. Extensive performing experience after
that, as guitarist and/or bassist, occasionally keyboard-
ist with variety of jazz and rock groups.
Educated various places, including 1 semester at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Also studied composition privately, with John Webber of Boston Conservatory. Graduated from Peabody Conservatory of Music
in Baltimore 1980, with Bachelor’s in music composition, where my teacher was Robert Hall Lewis.
Awards include 2nd Prize, Phi mu sinfonia composition
competition, Sam Houston State Univ. 1976; 1st Prize,
Phi mu alpha composition competition, Peabody Conservatory, 1977; honorable mention, guitar, Governors’
State Univ Jazz competition, 1981.
Was Artist-in-Residence for Sangamon State Univ(now
Univ of Illinois at Springfield)”Blues-in-the-schools” in
1981. Guest lecturer for ‘Friends of Lincoln Library’s
“Meet the Composer” series same year. Composition
“Festival of Fluids and Solids” for saxophone quartet performed at Univ of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana IL at
Amer Soc of Univ Composers forum in 1982. Instructor
in Guitar at Lincoln College, Lincoln IL in 1984.
From late 1984 to March of 1986, was guitarist (doubling
bass, keyboards, background vocals and
occasional choreography)for “Gina, Dean & Scoundrel”, a
7-pc ‘showband’(5 of the 7 played horns)playing Hotels
and Casinos all over the US and into Canada and Mexico.
1987-93 were married, domesticated years, and though I
wrote and home-recorded a lot of things, did not gig
heavily.
Since ‘93, have been more active musically. Was guitarist
for the Frank Trompeter Quintet from ‘94-96, during
which time got to play in Japan(Oct ‘95)at the Ashikaga
Jazz Festival. Have had own group-”The Sam Crain
Quartet”‘98-05. Current group is The Sam Crain Trio, and at this writing(09/07)have a new CD available at http://cdbaby.com/cd/crain20 which features the trio on three selections.
The Sam Crain Trio(1997)
Spring into Swing(1999)
Rose of Loami(2001)
Oop Bop Sh’ Bang(2003)
In Your Dreams(2003)
Jazz Guitar(2003)
Toasty Relief(2004)
Jazz Guitar Vol 2(2004)
Home Cookin'(2004)
Jammin' with Sam(2004)
Jazz Guitar Vol 3(2005)
Bird's-Eye View(2005)
Music of Sam Crain(2005)
Odyssey(2005)
Dance your way to Heaven('05)
Sunny Side Up(2006)
Solo Jazz Guitar(2006)
Fast Food Automaton(2007)
Music of Sam Crain Vol 2('07)
A Walk on the Mild Side('07)
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| Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
04/30/08
Thanks for stopping in and reading/listening/what-have-you. Trying to keep things up to date with new pix and mp3s as they're made- or stumbled across(oh hey, forgot I had that one!). Hope you hear or see something you like in all this muck.
Posted By Sam Crain @ 8:23 PM |
| Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
03/12/08
I posted a couple 3 new mp3s just tonight. Hope you enjoy them.
Posted By Sam Crain @ 8:41 PM |
| Saturday, January 5th, 2008
hello out there
Just goofing around on my site here. I've made pretty much all the mp3s downloadable, so if you hear something you like, go ahead and take it home with you. Hopefully you'll get inspired from there to buy an actual CD(not expensive, just go to http://cdbaby.com/all/scrain ). Well anyway, thanks for stopping in and reading/listening to my stuff. Hope you found something you liked.
Posted By Sam Crain @ 12:19 PM |
| Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Hey out there
Not sure who actually checks in here, but apparently somebody does once in awhile. My "main" website is http://www.samcrain.com but I do add stuff here from time to time. Just added a new pic tonight, a drawing for me for my birthday from my younger nephew.
Thanks for checking in here. Hope you heard or saw something you liked. More later.
Posted By Sam Crain @ 7:34 PM |
| Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
06/19/07
I should actually blog in here more often than I get around to, but oh well. One new picture up, titled Mean King Sam. It was taken at work, during one of our many clowning-around sessions. We have to work too, but the fun helps it all go down. Thanks for checking in here, more as it happens.
Posted By Sam Crain @ 7:11 PM |
| Saturday, April 7th, 2007
Keester Sunday
Happy Easter, thanks for checking in here. Plenty to listen to, got even more to add in. If you hear something you like, you can go to http://cdbaby.com/all/scrain and pick yourself up something in the way of a CD--you or that special someone you either have or are working on. Okay then. Have a great weekend.
Posted By Sam Crain @ 10:38 AM |
| Friday, January 26th, 2007
New CD!!
Hello, whoever-reads-this. Got a new CD you might enjoy, just went online today. This is where to go to check it out: http://cdbaby.com/cd/crain18
It's an eclectic mix of jazz and rock and classical music, some older material some newer.
Well, that's the news for now. Again, that's http://cdbaby.com/cd/crain18
Later for now.
Posted By Sam Crain @ 9:27 PM |
| Saturday, January 13th, 2007
Saturday, day of leisure
For some people, it's a day of industry. For me, if I can at all help it, Saturday is a day of sloth and inactivity. The only activity I like to engage in is guitar playing/practicing. Just stopped in here to make a few changes and look around. Hope you'll give something a listen while you're here. A ton of selections. If you like what you hear, you can check out my CDs at http://cdbaby.com/all/scrain
Hope you're having a nice Saturday yourself, whether it's of the industrious or indolent variety.
Posted By Sam Crain @ 7:24 PM |
| Monday, December 18th, 2006
Mundayy blogg
hello out there, whoever-reads-this. Thanks for stopping in and listening to stuff or whatever it is you do here. Lotsa tunes to listen to on the site. If you like what you hear, you can pick up a CD or two at http://cdbaby.com/all/scrain I should probably do the download thing here at iSound, but personally I'd rather people buy actual CDs. Guess I'm 'old school' in that way, but oh well..Anyway thanks for tuning in here.
Posted By Sam Crain @ 9:22 PM |
| Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
anudder blog
Greetings, whoever-reads-this. I could probably stand to write in here more often but I have other sites as well as this one so sometimes it gets hard to cover all your bases.
One new picture uploaded, and I changed the main pic. For the time being anyway.
There are already a million mp3s to listen to, though I might do well to replace a few with the other million mp3s I COULD put up..
Well thanks for tuning in here. My other main site is http://www.samcrain.com/
peace out,
s
Posted By Sam Crain @ 9:14 PM |
| Thursday, August 31st, 2006
take 2
As Daffy Duck would say, "letzzz try this again". Somehow I lost my original Blog--well, nothing too memorable anyway. Almost Friday, though of course it WILL be Friday when you're reading this. Probably bored at work, which accounts for a certain percentage of my readership.
New pix in the Photo Dept here as of tonight. Hope you'll stop here as well:
My CDs
later,
Sam
Posted By Sam Crain @ 11:04 PM |
| Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
Hey
Lotsa music as far as mp3s, and one new picture, captioned "Fingers". I had 3 to upload and it was the one that took. Maybe that's as it should be. Hope you anjoy your stay here at my site.
My new CD can be viewed here:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/crain17
peace out,
Sam
Posted By Sam Crain @ 10:23 PM |
| Saturday, August 12th, 2006
vacation Blog
Okay, Saturday is a given, but it's still one of 10 consecutive days off from the rigors of daygigdom- or for that matter, any kinda work. Not even any gigs(fun work)for awhile.
I should probably change that silly-assed picture on the site here, but still kinda get a kick out of it. So up it stays.
Hope you're enjoying the various sights n' sounds here on my site. More as it happens.
Posted By Sam Crain @ 4:54 PM |
| Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
Sam's new CD
Hey out there. I have a brand spanking new CD ready to unleash on the world. It's called "Solo Jazz Guitar", and is about half and half jazz standards and originals. The standards include "My Favorite Things", "Isn't it Romantic" and "A Foggy Day". Go here to check it out: http://www.cdbaby.com/all/scrain
It'll be up there any day. CD Baby received it yesterday, and generally take about 5 days to get it going. In the meantime, you can check out my other CDs if you want.
With all of them you can listen before you buy. Hope you'll stop in and have a look(and listen).
thanks,
Sam
Posted By Sam Crain @ 7:54 PM |
| Friday, June 16th, 2006
POETS Club
Piss on everything, tomorrow's Saturday. That's what that stands for anyway. And it's what I stand for on Friday nights. The picture was taken by my brother Josh(I think I might have a "real" version of it in the pictures already), and also altered by him of course. Not much else for right now. I'll let you know
Posted By Sam Crain @ 11:46 PM |
| Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
04/22/06
Hey, whoever-reads-this. 1 new picture up(subtitled "They're here!" due to its decidedly extraterrestial look), and several mp3s. All classical stuff,and all at the top of the mp3s page. Enjoy!
Posted By Sam Crain @ 2:06 PM |
| Saturday, April 8th, 2006
s.o.a. Saturday
S.o.a. stands for 'sit on ass'. If you work for any government entity(both parents and myself have worked for the State)you learn to think after awhile in acronyms. So I'm enjoying a nice soa Saturday, after having paid my daygig dues all week(especially Monday and Tuesday).
Got a number of new pictures in here for your viewing pleasure, and hope to add in some more mp3s(as if there aren't enough there already!).
Thanks for visiting. Hope you'll stop by my "main" site as well at http://www.samcrain.com/
Posted By Sam Crain @ 10:15 PM |
| Saturday, February 18th, 2006
02/18/06
Hola to whoever reads this. Been awhile since I've uploaded any tunes here, and am getting ready to put up a few solo guitar things I just recorded in the last month or two. They'll be at the top My main siteof the page. More as it happens.
Posted By Sam Crain @ 7:02 PM |
| Saturday, November 27th, 2004
Have a Blog and Enjoy It
Hello out there in blogland. I write this crazy stuff, maybe you read it and maybe listen to tunes, maybe buy CD even. Who knows? Hope you enjoy some of the tunes. Lord knows, I've got enough of 'em up. Enjoy.
Posted By Sam Crain @ 9:49 PM |
| Saturday, November 13th, 2004
Blog Jones
Normally I 'blog', as it were, on my regular samcrain.com site,and normally on Friday night. Last night both CD Baby and Hostbaby were on the fritz. This morning CD Baby is fine but Hostbaby(and therefore my site)is still for sheeit.
So I did one as a word document(don't know how long I can survive these Spartan conditions!)which will be up there as soon as the site returns to functionality. Pretty entertaining, or so it seemed at the time I was writing it.
Anyway, soon I guess. I hate waiting.For anything.
In the meantime lotsa music here to check out. CDs for sale, and pretty nice on the price.
More later.
xoxxxxx,
sc
Posted By Sam Crain @ 8:20 AM |
| Sunday, October 24th, 2004
sunday blog
A nice lazy weekend. Of course if they were all lazy I suppose boredom would set in. But if you've been working pretty much every weekend for the past 6 weeks, it feels soooo good to wake up on Saturday morning and know you don't have to go anyplace or answer to anybody for the whole damn day!
I have been working on a couple project-type ideas and have enough material for 2.7 CDs(that is, 2 whole CDs and most of a 3rd):
(1)The first one is all classical music, chamber and electronic stuff, some dating back to '79 and some fairly recent. Pretty 'out-there' stuff, at least by most folks' standards, particularly the electronic stuff. If my catalogue of music were a Chili parlor, this would be my firebrand stuff... Got the cover and all the selections, just a question of putting it all together(usually thru Musicians' Friend's do-it-yourself CD process).
(2)A CD of all grooves. Not exactly firebrand, but pretty spicy as far as that music/chili scale of accessibility. Some of the selections have more 'tune' to them and others are just pure rhythm, but they all 'move'. I dunno. Seems like it could be an interesting motif: an all-rhythm album. Working title is "Dance Your Way to Heaven", from one of the selections. Got the cover, and all of the selections selected, just a question of putting them in some sort of order.
(2.7)Got some fusion/smooth/eclectic sorta guitar-driven stuff, have maybe 6 salvageable selections, will have a full album when I have another 4 or 5. In addition to these 2.7 CDs, I have a new one, recorded just about a month ago(Sept 25,26 & 28th). This one's a quintet(alto saxophone, guitar, piano, bass & drums)and is straight-ahead/modern jazz, all written by me. In the process of writing liner notes, assembling pictures and fixing a few things on a couple cuts, and then she'll be ready.
Well, such is life on this beautiful Sunday at roughly high noon. Thanks for visiting.
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