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Title	Composer(s)	Publisher	Notes/Style
Persichetti Etudes	Various	Piltdown Music	On-going project based on Persichetti's Twentieth-Century Harmony: Creative Aspects And Practice
Sequoia Swing	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Old School Swing
Child's Song	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Latin Jazz
You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want To Do It)	Joe McCarthy & James V. Monaco	Broadway Music Corp.	Jazz
Cookin’ Blueport	Horace Silver, Art Farmer	Silhouette Music, Criterion Music	Hard bop mashup of “Cookin’ at the Continental” and “Blueport”
McRabbit	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Fusion
Faux Leone	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Jazz
Clockwise Margarita	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Jazz
Calorita	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Jazz
Book Of James	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Jazz/Gospel
Black Narcissus	Joe Henderson	Advance Music	Jazz
Alfie	Burt Bacharach and Hal David	Famous Music Corp.	Jazz
Shockolate 3	Jay Shafto with Prince and Kelis	Production Value Productions	Have fun with it
Push	Jay Shafto	Piltdown Music	Composed for a Pomona College dance concert; remastered from tape by Production Value Productions.
When I Fall In Love	Eddie Heymann & Victor Young	Alfred Publishing	Romantic wedding anniversary celebration
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most	Tommy Wolf and Fran Landesman	Wolfland (Los Angeles, CA)	Jazz ballad
Take Five	Paul Desmond	Alfred Publishing Co. (Warner Music Group)	Jazz-funk
What’s New?	Johnny Burke & Bob Haggart	Warner Bros., Inc.	Big Band-o-Robots
Tweenness	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Mahavishnu/Zappa
Lala Neva Dada	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Inspired by the Gil Evans composition La Nevada
Wingspan	Mulgrew Miller	Mulgrew Publishing	After Mark Levine, Jazz Theory Book, Sher Music Co.
Angel Eyes	Earl Brent & Matt Dennis	Dorsey Brothers Music	air guitar
Chocolate Sox	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Jazz-funk
Coeur d’Alene	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	well behaved, quiet
Hail Bop (Alternate Take)	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Be-bop
Meredith’s Voyage	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	to Samoa and back
Geeks of Lacey Station	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	A long story
My Little Brown Book	Billy Strayhorn	Tempo Music and Music Sales Corp. (arr Piltdown Music)	After “simple piano arrangement” by Mark Levine, Jazz Theory Book, Sher Music Co.
One for My Baby	Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen	Harwin Music (arr Piltdown Music)	And One More For the Road
Pollo Con Moto	Jay Shafto & Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Jazz-rock
Norton Scores	Mike Shafto	Production Value Productions	Tribute to the Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Cat Man Do (Bird)	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	For a cat named Bird
Kyrie	Giovanni PierLuigi da Palestrina	arr Piltdown Music	Swing adaptation for 8-string guitar
Nihombashi	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Hiroshige ‘Tokaido Road’ Etude No. 1
Goyu	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Hiroshige ‘Tokaido Road’ Etude No. 2
Narima	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Hiroshige ‘Tokaido Road’ Etude No. 3
Sumida	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Hiroshige ‘Tokaido Road’ Etude No. 4
Shinagawa	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Hiroshige ‘Tokaido Road’ Etude No. 5
Most of the Time	Bob Dylan	Special Rider Music	Instrumental version
Subterranean Homesick Blues	Bob Dylan	Special Rider Music	Instrumental version
Shooting Star	Bob Dylan	Special Rider Music	Instrumental version
Caine Plain	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Based on a solo by Uri Caine
Eyesight to the Blind	Sonny Boy Williamson	arr Piltdown Music	Swinging the blues
Mr. Casual	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Confidently casual
Kauai	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Recorded in a very large empty Hawaiian ballroom
Ashja	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Non-jazz
Carol Sue	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Playful
Ave Maria	Josquin Des Pres	arr Piltdown Music	Adaptation for string quartet
Firecat	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Based on a poem by Wallace Stevens
In the Carolinas	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Based on a poem by Wallace Stevens
Invective	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Based on a poem by Wallace Stevens
Foreign Song	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Based on a poem by Wallace Stevens
The World Without Imagination	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Based on a poem by Wallace Stevens
Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatan	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Based on a poem by Wallace Stevens
Approaching Carolina	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Based on a poem by Wallace Stevens
The Idea of a Colony	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Based on a poem by Wallace Stevens
A Nice Shady Home	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Based on a poem by Wallace Stevens
And Daughters With Curls	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Based on a poem by Wallace Stevens
The Man With the Blue Guitar	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Based on a poem by Wallace Stevens
Owl’s Clover	Mike Shafto	Piltdown Music	Based on a poem by Wallace Stevens

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Moderation in the pursuit of a hobby is no virtue. (Adapted from Barry Goldwater)

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Lack of skill dictates economy of style. (Joey Ramone)

A mix is never finished, you just have to abandon it. (George Massenburg)

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Music is intrinsically boring.
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"I've been very fortunate in that I have not been the target of professional jealousy."

-- Boxcars: Piltdown Music Interviews Mike Shafto

Last updated January 6, 2012