Check it out:
https://crescentarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/126514088/events

"Id" included in solo slot at SD Bells

Solo gig in SD Bells on Friday was fun. I included trio tune Id. You can read about this tune and hear an older recording of the trio version here:
http://www.belfastjazz.co.uk/Blog/Entries/2011/3/26_Id.html

Second Friday Piano spot: tomorrow in SD Bells. 2.30 - 4.30 pm
See you there.

Old Photo

A photo I never saw before of a band I was in in the 90's has shown up on Facebook.

Click here

Crescent Arts Centre Gig in May

The Keith McVeigh Trio will be playing in the Crescent Arts Centre on 19 May 2011. Doors open at 8 pm.

Keith McVeigh - piano

Richard Schaible - Bass

Ian Leask - Drums 

See you there!

SD Bells on Fridays

Will be very happy to be playing (background) piano in SD Bells on Friday afternoons for a while.
Hope to see you there.
Thanks for the gig, Robert.
http://www.sdbellsteacoffee.com/

Keith McVeigh playing 'Green Man Blues' (edit)

Proposition 5.554

I have recently finished a neoclassical piece for piano and flute. It is inspired, in part, by Debussy’s objection to Satie’s lack of form, and Satie’s response.

Proposition 5.554 of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico Philosophicus says, “It would be completely arbitrary to give any specific form.”

The flute part of 5.554 is isorhythmic. The forty-nine pitches of the color are derived from the forty-nine letters of the quotation using a chromatic/alphabetic cypher. The Talea is derived from the speech rhythm of its eighteen syllables over three bars of 5/4 and one bar of 4/4. This renders 196 bars of ‘melody’.

The tonal piano ‘accompaniment’ in fact dominates the sound and is intuitively written as to ‘make sense’ of the mechanistic flute part.

Click to hear 5.554

Uxorious Blues

uxorious |ˌəkˈsôrēəs; ˌəgˈzôr-|
adjective
having or showing an excessive or submissive fondness for one's wife.
ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin uxoriosus, from uxor ‘wife.’

I wrote this slow sixteen-bar blues a while ago, and played it live with my trio recently.Click here for a Garage Band version of Uxorious Blues and a score

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SD Bells Gig this Sunday

Robert Bell has kindly booked in my trio to play on Sunday 6th March, in his restaurant:

Click for S.D. Bell site 

516 Upper Newtownards Road

Belfast, Co Antrim, BT4 3HL

Click for a map

The last time we played in Bell’s was last October. Its a nice gig, a popular eating place with a long history. Very friendly.

Click to hear Bird Bath Rag from 17/10/2010