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This hypnotic, ambient, minimalist and energetic piece features movement under an ostinato, with surprising resolutions and contemporary ambience. Its minimalist structure lends itself to easy editing and can be cut anywhere and reassembled. It’s kaleidoscopic, frenetic, but also majestic.

Somewhere between Mr Bojangles and Pachelbel’s canon, this elegant tune grows from intimate trio to epic orchestral through successive variations. Inspired by the kindness of Sarah at Melodicloud.

Inspired by a common rock progression, this tune speaks to the grownup in the rock’n’roller. It’s comforting and familiar, a happy tune, yet upscale and elegant despite its rock’n’roll roots. It’s a piece for String Quintet, and straddles the New Acoustic genre and Baroque.

This piece is a calm, hypnotic, intelligent and upscale exploration of a pop chord progression, at once soothing, challenging and inviting with Romantic overtones.

This classically-flavored piece for piano and string ensemble has a heartland feeling – sort of a country/classical fusion. The inspiration for it was an ASPCA commercial.

Released by the Jon Burr Quintet on “Very Good Year” (2014) this contrefact of “Stompin’ at the Savoy” is reminiscent of Chet Baker, early Miles, Quincy Jones. It’s got an elegant, intelligent, cool, upscale vibe.

Released by the Jon Burr Quintet on “Very Good Year” (2014), this contrefact of “All The Things You Are” is in the hard-bop style, reminiscent of Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Miles Davis

Released by the Jon Burr Quintet on “Very Good Year” (2014), this contrafact of Cole Porter’s “Out of This World” is in a hard-bop modern jazz style, reminiscent of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Miles Davis

Featured on the Jon Burr Quintet release “Very Good Year” (2014), this is a hard-bop contrafact of “All the Things You Are” in the style of Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis

This happy baroque track features strings playing pizzicato, written to a familiar rock progression. The style borders on New Acoustic or NuGrass, but without a strong cultural reference. It’s a safe and universal track with an upbeat feeling.