https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/ Videos of musician Rob Birdwell and friends - studio, live and performance videos. en-us 2019-06-20T00:24:10-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/live/ Various videos of Rob Birdwell and friends performing live.2018-12-05T22:08:57-06:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/live/little-ukulele/ Rob Birdwell performing "Little Ukulele" (music and lyrics by Rob Birdwell) at the wonderful Frets & Refrains open mic in the Roadhouse July 9, 2024 at the Full Moon Resort. This was Rob's first time at the camp and it was a great time and particularly enjoyed Richard Thompson's sessions discussing all things music and extra-musical! Great staff of instructors and thanks to all who made this event so amazing!2024-08-24T20:44:13-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/live/dpetal-tones/ D'Petal Tones Rob Birdwell - trumpet, ukulele, vocals Emily Looney - alto sax, flute Cheryl Leckie - bass Michael Burand - guitar, banjo Andy Weiss - drums2024-08-24T20:52:40-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/live/dpetal-tones-showcase-2/ Showcase #2 by the D'Petal Tones, live performance montage2024-11-26T19:21:27-06:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/live/dpetal-tones-live-at-lumos/ Montage of live D'Petal Tones Live at Lumos video and photos2025-09-25T13:44:17-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/live/hands/ This is a video of me playing flugelhorn about 5 months after a major surgery. Checking in and I'm doing well after much work. At this point there's more work to do in recovery, but I'm improvising, holding my chops together and, best of all, it feels really good to play! Read more details about my journey in the YouTube description for this video.2025-09-25T13:44:17-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/live/sometimes-always/ I wrote this song intentionally trying to write something very simple and this was the result. I recorded this live video a week after writing it just to chronical the moment. My hope is to eventually produce this song with a bit of arrangement (not much), just enough to support the simple idea. The verses emphasize the ephemeral nature of things - skies are grey, friends are far away, days are long, it all goes wrong, etc., whereas the chorus is a declaration of of immutability of one's love. Simple stuff. Only took me half a lifetime to write! ;)2025-09-25T13:44:17-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/live/quietly-piano-vocal/ This song is about hanging in there - putting up a good fight, doing the right thing, and a touch of sticking it to the man. Even if your voice is soft, muted, hidden, marginalized, or held back for any reason, it's still YOUR VOICE. And like this song says, "A soft voice is strong when it's joined by millions..."2025-09-25T13:44:17-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/live/swim-and-solemn/ Rob Birdwell swimming after a three months out of the water - cause for celebration! Backing track is a live recording of Rob performing his piece "Solemn".2025-09-25T13:44:17-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/live/thats-how-strong-my-love-is/ Rob Birdwell performing with The Svens (vocals, trumpet/flugelhorn, tenor sax).2025-09-25T13:44:18-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/live/green-flugel-hornet/ A live performance of Rob's arrangement of the Green Hornet theme - adapted by Rob as The Green "Flugel" Hornet!2025-09-25T13:44:18-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/live/robert-briggs-reading-and-performance/ Robert Briggs read from his book "Ruined Time" at this Corvallis Art Center performance.2025-09-25T13:44:18-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/live/quietly-with-lmno/ Live performance of Quietly by Rob Birdwell with LMNO2025-09-25T13:44:18-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/live/rob-birdwell-swimming-butterfly/ At a stroke clinic getting tips on my stroke. Here I'm working on my kick.2025-09-25T13:44:18-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/ Various studio and pre-produced videos from Rob Birdwell's work.2018-12-05T22:09:09-06:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/dancing-birds/ Performed by D'Petal Tones From our album release, "Sprout" This song expresses a multitude of emotions and is a staple of our D'Petal Tones live sets, often the first as it transports us to our musical world and sound. The song evokes a variety of sentiments, both personal and universal: love, romance, adventure, suspense, and passion. While birds in nature appear to be elegant in sync with their mating rituals, we humans are typically clumsy at best in matters of bonding and romance. Still, we try and once in a while we get it right - and even when we don't, we flutter onward to the love that awaits to be discovered. Rob Birdwell – flugelhorn Emily Looney – baritone sax Lydia O'Brian – violin Cheryl Leckie – bass Michael Burand – guitar Andy Weiss – drums Music composed and arranged by Rob Birdwell Copyright © Rob Birdwell / Birdwell Music LLC2026-03-19T13:46:21-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/mutiny/ Visualization video of old movie footage of pirates for the song Mutiny, by Rob Birdwell and performed by D'Petal Tones.2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/dream-world/ Dream World references a mix of things, both poetic and personal, blending fantasy through whatever this vehicle I am at this point in my life. I'm looking forward to performing it, ya know, with my musician friends who know how to do what to do, ;)2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/shes-on-to-me/ She's On To Me - music and lyrics by Rob Birdwell It's a simple tune and possibly the lyrics are the most original part but in the scheme of things we're all sort of channeling the same sentiments most of the time - probably several tunes out there much like this one. The lyrics can almost be taken a couple different ways (and I like that too) but it's just a little fantasy/love song at heart.2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/where-did-those-yesterdays-go/ This is a song I wrote for my old friend and writing partner back in the day, Wade Marsten, who passed away in December of 2021. I last saw him in 2017 and I wished I'd kept in better contact with him. He was an amazing person, as anyone who knew Wade can testify to. I was honored to know Wade. He changed my life for the better in so many ways.2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/jeffries-tube-rendezvous/ This tune was written and produced over a ten day period. It started with a ukulele chord progression that I was jamming on before bed. The next day I came up with a melody and a couple days later I started recording it! The title arises from my enjoyment of Star Trek. The "Jeffries Tube" is referenced now and then - it is where the crew typically goes to repair stuff. There's often a sense of urgency and life or death in there - but sometimes it's just routine maintenance and a normal day at the office. Probably not a lot of romance going on in the old tube - but who knows!? The song seems to have a touch of a romantic quality to it, but there are other musical moods going on. Copyright © 2023 Rob Birdwell / BirdwellMusic.com2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/quietly/ Music video for the title track of Rob Birdwell's Quietly release. Pop, jazzy - a call for social justice in turbulent times.2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/surrounded/ Surrounded is a track from my "Quietly" release Rob Birdwell - vocals, piano, flugelhorn, percussion, bass, synths, etc. https://robbirdwell.hearnow.com/ Surrounded - words and music by Rob Birdwell Music video produced by Rotor! Copyright © 2021-2022 Thanks to #rotorvideos for their cool and easy-to-use tools!2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/feather/ Feather is a track from my "Quietly" release Rob Birdwell - vocals, piano, flugelhorn, percussion, bass, synths, etc. https://robbirdwell.hearnow.com/ Feather - words and music by Rob Birdwell Music video produced by Rotor! Copyright © 2021-2022 Thanks to #rotorvideos for their cool and easy-to-use tools!2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/morning/ A couple months before writing (and recording) this song I ordered a ukulele. I'd never tried one before, but always thought it a lovely instrument. I was hoping it would be fun to play around with, learn something new, etc. For me it was all that and more! I'm still learning and you can maybe hear it in the mix. Simple chords and a rank beginner strumming them, but that's why I make records - to chronicle the journey!2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/we-are-earthlings-too/ This is an instrumental featuring me on all the production including Trumpet, Ukulele, keys, programming, etc. I mixed in some sample beats from my Pocket Operator drum board which I programmed - very easy to do, but it gave the track a unique character I think. And musically I have to say I like the way the trumpet solo came out.2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/sonny/ This is a song I wrote about meeting the great Sonny Rollins when I was a "kid" (teenager) in the 80s. Sonny really was super kind - I'll never forget going "backstage" (back tent actually) and meeting him. I'm sure the friends I was with (Steve, Brian, Brad and others) were pretty jacked too. This is a work-in-progress (home) studio tracking session. Not sure if this will be the final vocal take - it was my 3rd "scratch" take. After the 2nd take I decided to do a take with a camera rolling. I'm still not sure if I'll dub a flugelhorn solo over the changes or if I'll invite a guest for a tenor sax solo. Since the song is about Sonny, a tenor sax solo seems right...we'll see. This next collection of songs I'm working on will be fairly stripped down - with me on piano & vocals, some little trumpet/flugelhorn solos here and there. I'm steering clear of the trappings of drums, bass, guitar at least for this round of songs (about a dozen or so) just to let the "song" be the focus rather than the production.2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/my-muse/ Official music video for My Muse, by Rob Birdwell2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/thataway/ A melodious and jazzy little modern shuffle tune written for a young, developing ensemble, this chart is well-suited for middle school jazz bands and/or a young high school group.2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/lean-on-you/ I wrote and produced this song in a week during the world-wide covid-19 pandemic.2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/nobodys-business/ Rob Birdwell's original song from his CD Blue Macabre featuring Nick Rivard on guitars and Rob on vocals, bass, percussion and trumpet.2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/swallow-me-whole/ Experiments in animation - words, music, video by Rob Birdwell. A work in progress. The song "Swallow Me Whole" draws from the Jonah and the Whale story. Only in this case, it's a monster - a mean orange monster. To fight and defeat him, we must convince him to swallow us whole - and then we'll beat him from the inside out! Category Music2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/beautiful-moments/ This song is about memories - poignant times in life that seem to be lost. "I can Google your name / but I won't find a trace / of those beautiful moments / from another time and place..."2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/swimming-upstream/ A lyric video that tells the story of a little fish swimming upstream!2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/season-of-change/ The visual subject is a series of photos I took of our backyard Pin Oak tree on consecutive days for several weeks.2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/coming-home/ A lyric video featuring Rob Birdwell on vocal, flugelhorn, and other instruments.2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/eight-one-eight/ A solo studio outing by Rob Birdwell who performs all the tracks in this multi-camera video studio session.2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/sweet-surrender/ A video rendering of Rob Birdwell's Sweet Surrender track.2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/let-it-all-go/ A song inspired by (Sinead O'Conner's) reaction to Kim Kardashian being on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine. References to Donald Trump's vacuous political ambitions and not giving in to corporate craziness.2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/jamman-looper-manager/ Video demo of my JamMan Looper Manager - an open source librarian for the DigiTech single-channel looper pedal.2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/studio/jamman-looper-manager-how-to-install/ This video will show you how to download and install this librarian software written for the "classic" single-channel (not stereo!) version of the the JamMan looper pedal device.2026-03-19T13:46:22-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/ Videos of Rob Birdwell conducting2018-12-05T22:09:25-06:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/space-oddity/ Rob Birdwell's symphonic arrangement of Davie Bowie's classic hit, Space Oddity, featuring Marc Callahan on the vocals.2019-09-06T02:53:53-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/halie-loren-pops-concert-sway/ A clip from the Halie Loren pops concert - Sway, conducted and arranged by Rob Birdwell.2019-09-06T02:35:38-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/st-james-infirmary/ A full orchestra pops arrangement by Rob Birdwell, St. James Infirmary blues score and parts are available on Sheet Music Plus! Features female vocalist, this dynamic and emotional arrangement is perfect for any pops concert!2019-09-06T02:32:40-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/halie-loren-sway-balcony-excerpt/ Balcony footage of Rob Birdwell conducting Sway, Halie Loren vocalist, Corvallis-OSU Symphony2019-09-06T02:36:07-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/chris-botti-pops-concert/ Rob Birdwell Conducts Chris Botti Pops Concert - photos, video and article recounting the Chris Botti pops concert in Corvallis, Oregon.2019-09-21T01:39:55-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/hogwarts-hoedown/ Rob Birdwell conducts a Harry Potter concert. This piece is his own original composition.2019-09-07T23:49:21-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/harrys-wondrous-world/ Excerpt of Rob Birdwell conducting the Corvallis-OSU Symphony performing John Williams' Harry's Wondrous World2019-07-25T23:22:36-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/mystery-way/ An Early Bird Jazz electronic composition with samples of the students performing excerpts.  Arranged and produced by Rob Birdwell2019-07-25T23:22:36-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/song-of-the-wind/ Rob Birdwell's Dick Grove School of Music CAP final composition when he was a student.2019-09-07T02:26:53-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/under-paris-skies/ Under Paris Skies, arranged and conducted by Rob Birdwell2019-09-07T23:52:03-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/cry-me-a-river/ Cry Me A River, arranged and conducted by Rob Birdwell. Words and Music by ARTHUR HAMILTON2019-09-07T23:56:38-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/tell-me-on-a-sunday/ Tell Me On A Sunday, arranged and conducted by Rob Birdwell. Music by ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Lyrics by DON BLACK2019-09-07T23:59:21-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/anyone-who-had-a-heart/ Anyone Who Had a Heart, arranged and conducted by Rob Birdwell. Lyrics by HAL DAVID, Music by BURT BACHARACH2019-09-08T00:01:55-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/those-where-the-days/ Those Where The Days, arranged and conducted by Rob Birdwell. Russian lyrics by Konstantin Podrevsky, English lyrics by Eugene Raskin, Music by Boris Fomin2019-09-08T00:06:57-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/broadway-baby/ Broadway Baby, arranged and conducted by Rob Birdwell. Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.2019-09-08T00:09:45-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/cabaret/ Cabaret, arranged and conducted by Rob Birdwell. Lyrics by Fred Ebb, Music by John Kander.2019-09-08T00:11:11-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/maybe-this-time/ Maybe This Time, arranged and conducted by Rob Birdwell. Lyrics by Fred Ebb, Music by John Kander.2019-09-08T00:13:13-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/music-director/bei-mir-bistu-shein/ Bei Mir Bistu Shein, arranged and conducted by Rob Birdwell. Lyrics by Jacob Jacobs, Music by Sholom Secunda.2019-09-08T00:14:28-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/collaborations/ Various videos that are collaborative with other artists featuring Rob Birdwell.2018-12-05T22:09:37-06:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/collaborations/ardy/ Alex Sheridan's song "Ardy" - featuring Rob Birdwell on horns.2018-10-17T00:47:43-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/collaborations/prunestack/ An overview of the PruneStack plugin for MuseScore. This plugin makes it easy to prune notes from a vertical stack of notes.2023-10-13T11:29:16-05:00 https://www.birdwellmusic.com/videos/rss/ RSS feed to Rob Birdwell's video feed. Subscribe to get the latest!2019-09-16T23:39:10-05:00