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Ed Baran - Guitar

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Status: Happy when I'm not at Work
 Joppa, Maryland
United States
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MY DETAILS
RELIGION:
N/a
PREFERRED JAZZ GENRE:
Smooth Jazz
DATING STATUS:
Married
DRINK:
Socially
BODY TYPE:
Average
JOB:
Working
ORIENTATION:
Not Sure
SMOKE:
Socially
INSTRUMENTS PLAYED:
Electric Bass, Guitar, Harmonica, Keyboards, Mandolin, Double Bass
MEMBER SINCE: 11/01/2008
STAR SIGN: Virgo
LAST LOGIN: 03/08/2010 13:11:09
MY RATING: 0.00

TURN ON'S
Meeting old musician friends from past gigs and catching up on lost time. Learning new guitar licks, music theory from the masters of the genre.
Walking the boardwalk in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and making new "beach" friends along the way.
Attempting to put down the new Taylor NS24ce guitar I just bought the other day..maybe I'll get some sleep one day but for now, the Taylor "rules"! LOL!

BIO

WEBSITE
http://mysite.verizon.net/edbguitar/
http://cdbaby.com/cd/edbaran

LIVE SHOW CALENDAR
Buy Now

THE ALBUM IS NOW ON AMAZON.COM for Individual Song Downloads. Just go to the Amazon mp3 Store and type in Four Guitar Lovers in the search field. i-Tunes and Napster.com have also accepted the cd so...HAVE SOME FUN and Thank You So Much For Listening To The Music! :)

A special thanks to my local fan: Marshall Friend who just purchased a third cd - for his brother-in-law,,,, gee I hope they're still friends after he hears it.... LOL! Just Kidding!

An HONEST THANK YOU TO so many friends:

The e-mail I received from Mr. Tomas Ceolte - Donegal, Ireland on Monday 03/30/2009:
Hi EddieB....what a privileged man I am to have a kind guy like you as a friend!!!!!
Hey, your CD arrived this morning. Man it is fantastic!!! I really mean it. What a wonderful collection of fantastic numbers...I had the CD playing for a couple of hours this morning and I can't decide on my favorite ...each one is great....at the moment I'm attracted to SAMBADE, CELLO SUITE..DREAM A LITTLE DREAM....TOPPED PINE BOOGIE...what amazing playing of so many instruments....hey I'm so glad I met you my friend...God bless you....your friend(big time!)....ceolte


To: Ed Baran - Four Guitar Lovers
Subject: Re: DJ "M"
Saturday, April 04, 2009

Hi ED I like this CD I like all the (track's) it makes me go out and have a
good cigar... but good job on (tracks 9 10 11 12) good dam job good dam job. Hi ED when will the next CD be out? I love (track 11) the most good dam job.
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with SprintSpeed

Ed,
please send a hard copy of your CD to WDCB

WDCB c/o College of DuPage
Attn: Paul Abella Music Director

I might also suggest recategorizing this. You're calling this easy listening and smooth jazz, and it's not. It's just hands down some great Brazilian influenced jazz, and I'm impressed.

ABOUT ME
I began my music in the Cardinal Gibbons High School stage band playing upright bass/continued my jazz/music theory classes at the Community College of Baltimore where I also studied piano, trumpet, and clarinet.Graduated there along with Chester Thompson (drummer for Phil Collins - Genesis and many others). Studied jazz arrangement with the late great, Hank Levy at Towson University in Maryland/performed in his jazz ensemble and combo sections.
Currently have my my first CD: "Four Guitar Lovers". for sale at: www.cdbaby.com/edbaran

BOOKS
"A Canticle For Leibowitz" - My favorite sci-fi novel I read back in high school in 196?

MUSIC
My first exposure to jazz was an album called "Respect" by the late great B3 giant Jimmy Smith.
Other artist's: Herbie Ellis, Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel,Kenny Burell,Joe Pass,Chris Standring, Duke Robillard, Count Basie/Ellington. Ron Carter, Eugene Wright, Joey D'Francesco (organ), Earl Klugh...

MOVIES
Sci-Fi and comedy: The Blues Brothers,Star Trek, Eureka / Ghost Hunters (t.v. series). "B" sci fi movies - "Attack of the Flying Saucers", "Forbidden Planet", "The Day The Earth Stood Still"...

HOBBIES
Woodworking, gardening, amateur photography,a good game of chess.

TURN OFF'S
That guy in the car in front of who never uses his turn signal because he knows you have ESP!

PROFESSIONAL NAME
ED BARAN

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Displaying 10 out of 71 comments
From: ulfskei
01/02/2010 01:24:50

Likewise, Ed Baran! Jimmy will always be one of my fav players and a great inspiration. Even if I'm currently investigating the 'Cool' side of jazz Bop is and will ever be the 'coolest' style in jazz. Hope you're not totally snowed in. We've got loads of the white stuff, and it's damn cold, between 15 and 20 centigrades below the luring zero...Actually I'm planning to begin an epic project today, a nice recording inspired by a co operation between Ulf Wakenius and Ray Brown trio I found a nice recording of yesterday. Wow, blues & bop fill my shoes like rain fills a pair of very cheap shoes from south east asia with paper soles... May your new year be prosperous and jazz always dance the frets of thy guitar my friend! Peace and snow from a sweden with a winter unheard of during the recent years. Skei


 EddieB wrote:

Skei - Keep Jimmy Raney and the Bop Alive! Sounds good! Happy New Year to you, my good friend. A toast of my glass of Asti Spumante' to the Matrix Family!



From: ulfskei
12/27/2009 02:21:09

Ed, you rascal, very nice rhythm tracks you have there! Those are great for practicing, lead as well as - well, if you download the mp3, enter it into a recording app and silence the guitar channel, which should be easy as it seems to be all in right ear, you (or I) could practice rhythm guitar playing too, so this is very nice. Looking out the window I notice we have more than 10 inches of snow, almost one foot, I believe (some 30 centimetres). Nice. Well, it's that season now, at least I live in an apartment and won't have to shovel it away from my yard... Anyway, have a nice time, and good on you for posting the link, I shall be sure to send it to the pals at jazzgutar.be! Peace and snow. Skei (the just had first coffee for the day one, soon having the next one too one)


 EddieB wrote:





ulfskei wrote:



Ed, my main jazzer one, hope you've got nice and snowy surroundings where you're at! We sure got cold and lots of snow this year. It's been coming down for some twenty hours now. And it's quite cold too. In a day or two they've promised some 15° centigrades daytime. Can't even start thinking about what that means for nights. Just happy not to be one of those poor guys who sleep under the railway bridge downtown. really. Well, mainly hope you keep hitting those blue notes and spread some jazzy melodies over the world for the new year. And as always; be careful, cholesterol. You know it, I know it, but more importantly - your physician knows all about it. Those midnite ham & cheese sandwiches are lethal. But they are nice. Very much so. 

Be cool & remember not to forget why we are around: Jazz.

Peace

Skei (the late night sandwicher one)






Skei - You always manage to cheer us up in the Matrix Family! It snowed last week 21" deep in the Maryland/Washington area and more up north towards the Rhode Island area! It makes for a nice Christmas mood and I always enjoy the first snow fall, too. We are blessed in that we have a decent shelter and good friends like you. I do think of those folks who are homeless often and think how would I cope with that situation.  It's rough to think about. I worry that our poor economy and the rising unemployment rate in the U.S. will lead to more homeless and social problems. It seems that good music always pulls us through the hard times and eases the mental stress. We have to be thankful we have good friends like you and the other fine musicians on the Matrix to get us through this trying time. I've been practicing to the backing tracks you posted in an earlier forum to keep busy during the holiday time off from work. You might like this link to this web site for more backing tracks. Stephane is a wonderful guitarist in his own right and he plays rhythm guitar so you can do some "stretching out". Hope you like him! Have Fun, my good friend!

www.stephanewrembel.com/rhythmtracks.html



From: ulfskei
12/26/2009 15:43:42

Ed, my main jazzer one, hope you've got nice and snowy surroundings where you're at! We sure got cold and lots of snow this year. It's been coming down for some twenty hours now. And it's quite cold too. In a day or two they've promised some 15° centigrades daytime. Can't even start thinking about what that means for nights. Just happy not to be one of those poor guys who sleep under the railway bridge downtown. really. Well, mainly hope you keep hitting those blue notes and spread some jazzy melodies over the world for the new year. And as always; be careful, cholesterol. You know it, I know it, but more importantly - your physician knows all about it. Those midnite ham & cheese sandwiches are lethal. But they are nice. Very much so. 

Be cool & remember not to forget why we are around: Jazz.

Peace

Skei (the late night sandwicher one)

From: isaiah
12/24/2009 16:55:15

merry christmas  and a happy new years eddie to you and yours.

From: ceolte
12/24/2009 03:03:25

Hi Eddie, my very good friend!  A Happy and joyful Christmas to you and your family and those you love! Blessings from Ireland, Tom

From: antonjazzero
12/23/2009 14:47:07
happiness for you and yours, that music brings you all the good


From: HaroldHaity
12/22/2009 14:51:46

MERRY  X’MAS TO YOU MY
FRIEND



AND ALSO TO YOUR BELOVED ONES



BLESSINGS.



 



HAROLD HAITY 

From: bayramjazz
12/22/2009 09:19:18

Hi,

WISHING YOU AND YOURS A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS & A WONDERFL NEW YEAR!!!!



CHEERS!

Artur

From: bayramjazz
12/03/2009 07:20:38

thank you!

peace & love & music!

Artur

From: ulfskei
11/21/2009 08:19:49

I'm not sure, I usually test drive most of the new guitars they get into the store downtown, I ought to have tested a Taylor, probably have, but just forgot about it. It's true, classical guitars sound great for latin stuff, much of salsa and samba in those nylons... I mostly like classical guitar necks, often because they're wide and very nice in shape. Nylon strings also give such a great tone. I had a nylon stringed classic with cutaway once upon a time, I loved playin' it, can't remember why I sold it. Probably traded it in for some electric axe, cos that was during the R&R days...

Well, Eddie, my good man, time for java once again, and then on to some more metronome stuff. Really makes miracles for once feel for time, that does.

Peace

Skei (the looking for coffee one)


 EddieB wrote:
SKEI -



I love your attitude, man! I admire the way you always keep things REAL and POSITIVE!



I need a person like you to move next door to me so we can jam together... LOL!



Oh, by the way, I just bought a Taylor NS24ce classical guitar and wow - this neck on the Taylor is phenominal! Sounds great for those Latin Charts!

Have you ever tried a Taylor yet?




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