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Tired of that lame "smooth jazz" stuff? Then "SAY THAT!" Legendary guitarist Grant Geissman has thrown down the gauntlet that separates the Jazz men from the Smooth Jazz boys! "Say That!" is a triumph, a collection of thirteen original Grant Geissman compositions that play like a righteous melding of 1960s Wes Montgomery, Horace Silver, and Jimmy Smith. It's real music that swings, simmers, smolders, and burns. It's good for the soul, and anything but "smooth"! "'Say That!' is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence." --Bill Milkowski On sale date is January 10th, 2006. Avaliable at fine record stores, and from this site after January 10th, 2006! --Featuring the jazz version of the "Theme from Two and a Half Men," the hit CBS-TV series! --Original cover artwork by beat/"lowbrow" artist Miles Thompson, with art direction by Francesca Restrepo and Grant Geissman! --Ultra cool packaging, in a hip, retro-style "Mini LP" Compact Disc gatefold sleeve! -- Includes a full color insert sheet, with extensive liner notes by noted jazz critic Bill Milkowski! --Bonus facsimile piece of sheet music for "Say That!" --With Emilio Palame, Tom Ranier, Jim Cox, Russell Ferrante, Trey Henry, Ray Brinker, Dennis C. Brown, Tierney Sutton (wordless vocal on "Bossa"), and Brian Scanlon! --I am very proud to be working on the hit CBS sitcom TWO AND A HALF MEN. The show is currently in its third season. I co-wrote the theme ("Men, men, men, men, manly men"!) with my old friend Lee Aronsohn and my new friend Chuck Lorre. My other new friend Dennis C. Brown and I are working together on the underscore, and we're having a total blast! It's a very cool show, and very, very funny. The show airs Monday nights on CBS at 9:00 PM. Be sure to tune in! --Grant G.
ABOUT GRANT GEISSMAN: Grant Geissman is a world class guitarist/composer who, as a much in-demand studio musician, has recorded with such artists as Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson (ORANGE CRATE ART, 1995), Robbie Williams (ESCAPEOLOGY, 2003), Quincy Jones (Q's JOOK JOINT, 1995), David Benoit, Chuck Mangione, Placido Domingo, Luis Miguel, Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello. A popular contemporary jazz recording artist in his own right, Grant has recorded thirteen solo albums, the latest being SAY THAT! on Futurism Records (release date: January 10, 2006). Something of a renaissance man, Grant is also a very active session musician and composer in Los Angeles, as well as a published author. Click on the links above for more information!
"FEELS SO GOOD" SOLO It is enormously gratifying to me that, even now, not a week goes by that someone doesn't mention the guitar solo I played on Chuck Mangione's 1978 hit "Feels So Good." I've had people tell me that it made such an impression on them that they vividly remember where they were when they first heard it. Certainly "the solo" has taken on a life of its own. In answer to numerous requests, here is my transcription which I did not long after the record was released. This is the complete album version. The single that was played on the radio was an edited version that married the first half of me playing the melody with the second half of my solo. And oddly, one of the radio versions was sped up a half step so the record would clock in at a shorter, more radio-friendly playing time; the original version is in the key of F. Practice away!	Click Here to Download (2.9M PDF)