Category: Music

Come, O Spirit, with Your Sound (for organ with no pedals)

I was stumbling through my files looking for a prelude for this coming Sunday’s service (it’s Pentecost Sunday), and I found this that I’d arranged during the early days of the pandemic. We weren’t having services in person because of the lockdown. Instead, we had videos of Rev. Wells preaching and lots of music tracks created by me! I wouldn’t go back to those days, of course, but it was, beyond all doubt, one of the very most productive times in my life as a musician. From what I’ve read, productive in earlier pandemics, historically, skyrockets.

LUCC Hosts Florida Folk Concert!

LUCC Hosts Florida Folk Concert!
You will not want to miss this concert!  Grant Peeples is a well known performer in the Florida Folk music community.  He provides much needed social commentary that ranges from funny to soul stirring.  You can learn more about him at Grant Peeples.com
This is a wonderful opportunity for LUCC to welcome progressive people from the community to the church.  People need a community of support right now.  This concert could introduce people to LUCC who need just such a faith community.  Plan to come and bring some friends.  It will be a stellar evening.
Grant Peeples will perform at Lakewood UCC on Saturday night March 29 at 7:00 p.m.  Admission/suggested donation:  $20 at the door.  
Here are some comments about Grant:He’s the musician walking most closely in Woody Guthrie’s footsteps-Greg Johnson, The Blue DoorHis songs are the antithesis of hooks, ear candy, and popular music…Rick Davidson, MusicFest NewsNo performer holds a crowd like Grant Peeples —  Barry White- S. Florida Folk NetworkThe only songwriter I have ever called ‘ruthless’— John Conquest-3rd MagazineA man of deeply held conviction….and cajones —  D.C. Bloom    Lonestar MagazineComedic, acute, smart… —  Marc Stern   WMBR   Cambridge MA  

A Christmas Concert

On Christmas Eve at my church job, I play an extended 30+ minute prelude. These are the pieces I’ll be playing: https://soundcloud.com/hilton-kean-jones/sets/a-christmas-concert-ive-piano. This is in an “album” order (best ones first), but at church, I’ll do it in exactly reverse order (best ones last since it’s an extended prelude and folks are pretty rowdy early on). That URL will be in the Xmas Eve Bulletin so if people want to hear the pieces again later, they can. These are all self-published arrangements of mine available at sheetmusicdirect and sheetmusicplus. This album cover was done by Nathan Jones, my son, for an earlier CDR release; the recordings linked to here are all new and I think I’ve done a better job of performing them and mixing them than the old CDR album.
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Joy Dawned Again on Easter Day (for trumpet & organ)

The sermon this coming Sunday needed musical selections with the word, “Joy,” in the title. Of course, there’s a bunch of hymns that qualify, and one Sunday School song I remember to this day from childhood. Of course, Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring. I decided, needing a postlude, I might see what I could come up with of my own. This is the result. Alas, no trumpeter at hand, so I’ll just do a piano rendition as best I can on this Sunday. I seem to be coming up with a collection of trumpet and organ pieces. This’ll be a happy addition to that I think. The high school band trumpet player in me (I didn’t continue trumpet into college) thinks it’d be a fun and not too difficult piece to play! Although the title is appropriate for Easter, the original text Puer Nobis Nascitur) is a Christmas text!