Thursday\u2019s concert features singer and composer Wellington Bullings<\/a>, a longtime collaborator of Schultz.<\/p>\n SPONSORED<\/p>\n \u201cShe creates very accessible, R&B-influenced melodies,\u201d said Schultz. \u201cShe\u2019s a brilliant singer, but she always hires musicians who are more jazz musicians. So there\u2019s that flexibility that you have with jazz that comes into her compositions. Audiences love the melodies, and yet, what\u2019s being played is quite sophisticated.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I play one of her recent hits, Flame<\/a>, for non-musicians, they just love the music,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut when I play it for musicians, immediately they\u2019re talking about how it\u2019s not in a conventional meter.* It switches meter halfway through the piece. And there are different sections for improvisation that are really more like early Miles Davis than R&B.\u201d<\/p>\n Friday night\u2019s concert at SCU features\u2019 Schultz own compositions and arrangements, including his arrangements of Joni Mitchell songs, and an ensemble of musicians from across the U.S. and the Bay Area.<\/p>\n Schultz\u2019s compositions and arrangements cross many styles.<\/p>\n \u201cCinematic\u201d is one of the words he uses to describe his newest album, The Road to Trantor<\/a>; a suite of pieces based on Isaac Asimov\u2019s (1920-1992) Foundation science fiction series. One way to describe the work is a movie score without a movie.<\/p>\n \u201cI started writing the music and realized that the pieces all felt very atmospheric, almost like they were scenes from a film,\u201d Schultz said.<\/p>\n \u201cI started thinking: We have the opening credits music, and we have the beginning of the plot, and well, what is it missing? What would happen next in a movie like the Star Wars? That inspired me to write the rest of the pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n Just like a drama, the music flows through dramatic points and then relaxation points, Schultz says.<\/p>\n \u201cYou need to bring the audience member through to the other side. That\u2019s something that I\u2019m always very cognizant of,\u201d said Schultz. \u201cThese pieces embrace some different or new textures, but the \u2018closing credit\u2019 for the film is very conventional.\u201d<\/p>\n As much as he wants listeners to buy recordings of The Road to Trantor, he wants to encourage them to hear live music.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re physically feeling the vibration of all these sound waves in your body,\u201d he said. \u201cYou are there, you\u2019re a part of it. As an audience member, you are as much part of it as anybody else in the room, including the performers. There\u2019s a special energy that\u2019s created, and it\u2019s a special feeling. I encourage people to come out and get that feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n Schultz\u2019s San Jos\u00e9 concert with Wellington Bullings is on Thursday, Jan. 22 at 8 p.m., at the SJZ Break Room 310 S. First Street, San Jos\u00e9. Tickets <\/a>are $27.<\/p>\n His Santa Clara concert is on Friday, Jan. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the SCU Recital Hall on Franklin and Lafayette Streets, Santa Clara. There\u2019s paid parking in the SCU North garag<\/a>e, 1063 Alviso St. Tickets<\/a> are $18-$22.<\/p>\n Schultz also performs at 3Flames Restaurant in San Jos\u00e9 at the restaurant\u2019s weekly Tuesday Jazz Nigh<\/a>t.<\/p>\n *Musical meter describes the recurring pattern beats in a piece of music.<\/p>\n Carolyn Schuk can be reached at carolyn@santaclaraweekly.com.<\/p>\n Related Post: SPONSORED<\/p>\n![\"BrainShare](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Version-61.png\"\/)
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