Paul Fortunato Colombo Jr.

Paul turned 3 March 11. Hard to believe. Here's my little drummer boy at Christmas...

Photo by John Woodell Art by Dennis Raphael

Paul Colombo

Guitarist, Teacher, Songwriter, Performer

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* Posted 6/27/09 - Here's is a 2:30 orchestral piece I composed, orchestrated and performed in my home studio. I dedicate it to my recently passed friend and have called it "The Raphael Overture". Please listen here.

* Posted 3/11/09 - Click here to listen to "Cheek to Cheek" from the new "On Life and Love" CD by Deanna Reuben. Click here for "Secret O'Life". I play guitar on both tracks. Contact me to buy a CD.

* Posted 2/4/09 - Click here to read a review of Randy Johnston's "Live At The Smithsonian Jazz Cafe" DVD that I have published in the February 2009 issue of Just Jazz Guitar Magazine.

* Posted 9/17/08 - "I'm Just Like You" is from 1986 when I was at The University of Miami. It features Brando Triantafillou on drums, Barry Hartglass on bass and John Schroeder on keyboards. I wrote the song, play guitars, and sing the vocals. I can hear some Elvis Costello and Utopia influences. Wow, has it really been that long ago? Nah... Listen here.

* Posted 8/14/08 - I review the CD "My Favorite Guitars" by Andreas Oberg in the August issue of Just Jazz Guitar Magazine.

* Posted 5/8/08 - "Don't Take My Soul Away" has been reworked a bit. Pop/Soul music/Todd Rundgren influenced. Click here for the song. Click here for the lyrics.

* Posted 5/1/08 - "Your Love" is a song I wrote with Lee Streitz. She sent me the lyrics and told me she wanted Latin music. I wrote the chords and the vocal melody and changed a few words to make the lyrics fit my melody a bit better. Please listen here.

* Posted 12/3/07 I am featured on the Just Jazz Guitar Magazine web site playing a solo guitar version of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. Click here and then click on the song title when you get to the new web page to hear the song.

* Posted 6/5/07 Here is the final version of "America" done by Marty Mellinger and myself. Marty added electric piano and remixed the song. It took us close to a year to conceptualize and finish this song. We're pleased with the end result and hope you like it!

* Posted 2/23/07 The Delfonics CD I recorded in 2002 has been reissued in Europe - manufactured in Germany, with a Belgium record company. It's been retitled "La La Means We Love You". I get nicely credited in the liner notes. You can listen to clips of the songs and pick one up here.

*Posted 2/13/07 Here is "Orisha Dance". This a cool cover of the Neville Brothers tune from The Dave Holt Band CD "Now Or Never".

*Posted 2/7/07 Here's an arrangement I did for The American Music Theatre in Lancaster, PA in 2000. It was the finale for their Christmas show that year. There were 5 strings augmenting our usual 17 piece band and lots of singers. I play the acoustic guitar. The song is called "He's Alive". The quality isn't that great as it was recorded live from the mixing board to a cassette. Click here to listen.

*Posted 1/28/07 "Tell Me, Tomorrow" gets some clean up. Check the funk from 2:02 - 2:32. Acoustic guitar adds spice. Gettin' saucy and sassy. Click here to listen. Here is a .pdf file of the lyrics.

*Posted 1/24/07 "Start It Up Again" is from 1979 - 1980 and features David Colombo on drums, Chris "Plankton" Bader on bass, and Michael Rosato on keyboards. I played the guitars and sang the vocals. I got a new computer application called "SoundSoap" that is used to "clean up the audio" so it sounds much better now. As far as the tune, lyrically it's not Jimmy Webb but it has a nice bridge - "Sometimes when I'm lost inside it's hard to see what you mean to me, I can't help but think of all we had before, open up your door, and let me love you". Listen here.

* Posted 1/24/07 "Let Me In " was recorded in 1986 when I was at The University of Miami. It features Barry Hartglass on bass, and John Schroeder on keyboards. Wow, dig that 80's drum machine, reverb, and Andy Summers rhythm guitar. Jeff Beck inluenced lead guitar. The song is about all the boat people coming into Key West from Cuba. I used to read about them in The Miami Herald and wonder who decides to let these people into our country or keep them locked up in a pen. We're all immigrants anyway. Seems relevant today in these Bush-whacked times. Probably could have used a third verse. Why didn't the record company promote this song! Coulda been a hit!!! Record company???... Another SoundSoap tune. Man, I gotta "Soap" all my old tunes. They sound gooood... Here's the song.

* Posted 1/22/07 - "Like A Kid Again " is a song that was actually started before my wife was pregnant and we had our first child, my son Paul. I guess you could call it a premonition. "Look at that face, those beautiful eyes, I love to hold you in my arms at night..." Click here for the song.

* Three new reviews I wrote are out now in the November 2006 issue of Just Jazz Guitar Magazine including a review of the DVD "A Night with Chieli Minucci and Special EFX".

* I have three book/CD reviews in the August 2006 issue of Just Jazz Guitar Magazine - Essential Jazz Lines in the Style of Miles Davis, Dave Stryker's Jazz Guitar Improvisation Method, and The Master Anthology of Jazz Guitar Solos Volume 4. Click here to read one of the reviews.

* Here's a medley of Stephen Foster tunes I put together. I play acoustic guitar, slide acoustic guitar, mandolin, 4 string banjo and 5 string banjo. The only other instrument is the bass. Enjoy here!