Andy Fite

Online releases, available at CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and elsewhere (though Spotify has been taking 2 to 3 months, so the newest things are never there when you're doing one release per month as I am now):

July 2011: Farewell Forever
An impressionistic work for guitar kaleidoscope, recorded May-June 2011, shifting and evolving and never staying in one place, with shifting meters and tempos, and unusual harp-like effects. It's a single track running a bit over 7 minutes. For a 2-minute taste, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOITaLrgX6E
Andy Fite, multi-guitar (acoustic)

June 2011: 20 Years
My life in the years 1981-2000 retold in 21 new songs, starting with I Wanna Die (that one covers ALL the years) and ending with What Am I So Afraid Of? Includes The Summer When You Were Twelve, Cindy Was Her Name, Darling I Love You, My Visit to an Anarchist Collective, Don't Quit Your Day Job....
Andy Fite, words, music, voice and guitar
Other Street Ag-4, 2001

May 2011: Life's a Bitch (and I'm Her Guy!)
The songs came fast in 2006! I was in a romantic mood (as ever...) and spending a lot of time with other songwriters, and I think something new opened up in my writing then. This one includes Run Away, Forever Yours, Nobody Loves Me, The Song of the Average Male, Is This Heaven? and Say It Three Times Fast (I'm Obsessed with Sex).
Andy Fite, voice, guitar, bass and bongos,
Lina Ericson and Virginia Pihlblad, voice on Say It Three Times Fast
Other Street Ag-29, 2006

April 2011: Andy Fite & Ulf Åkerhielm: A Place to Play
This is a pure jazz album: a set of guitar/bass duets, improvised from the first note right down to the last based on some good standard tunes, reflecting my fascination with the Bach-Tristano concept of a long melodic line packed with multiple meaning, and featuring some of the stormingest straight-ahead bass walking I've ever heard, along with Ulf's matchless arco soloing. I'm very proud of my own playing on this one, but Ulf's work here constitutes a major contribution to the history of the bass in jazz!
Andy Fite, guitar, Ulf Åkerhielm, bass
Other Street Ag-11, 2000

March 2011: JS Bach: The Goldberg Variations-- a jazz interpretation
Thanks to Lennie Tristano, the Swingle Singers, the Modern Jazz Quartet and others, there is a widespread awareness that Bach has a lot in common with jazz musicians. If you just loosen up your time feeling and bring out, even just a little, the accents implied in the turns of his melodic lines, the stuff comes out swinging like anything! But the Goldberg brings JS even closer to where we are, because here he is actually doing, even formally, exactly what we do: spinning out chorus after chorus on a 32-bar tune. Exactly the kind of tune that an improviser can get the most out of. When I played this version, I let myself go ahead and improvise when I felt like it, and now when I listen back, I can't always tell anymore what Bach wrote and what I made up on the spot.
Andy Fite, multi-guitar
Other Street Ag-22, 2005

February 2011: Oratorio: Super Bowl XIII, January 21, 1979
A dada poem following one the all-time classic games in American Football, set for Vocal Kaleidoscope, with solo guitar station breaks and a halftime show featuring a couple of funny songs, and one romantic one, and also a pretty bit from Brahms.
Andy Fite, voices, guitars, bass and snare drum
Other Street Ag-41, 2011

January 2011: 20 from '10
All twenty of the songs I wrote in 2010, including Regular Old Neurotic, Where Am I Now?, I'm Gonna Kill You, I Don't Want to Wash Myself, Let's Start a War, There Is No Santa Claus, and two duets with the wonderful Lina Ericson: What Do You Want to Do, and Polite. It was a good year.
Andy Fite, voice, acoustic and electric guitars, bass, snare drum and bongos
Lina Ericson, voice
Other Street Ag-42, 2011

Home releases (albums ready and intended for release online):

Ag-1: Andy Fite: If You’re Gonna Do What You’re Gonna Do
New songs by Andy Fite, plus a sensitive surfer-rock version of ”Have You Met Miss Jones” and a soft-jazz version of ”Smoke on the Water”
Andy Fite, voice, guitar, bass and percussion.
Other Street Music, Stockholm, Sweden, 2003

Ag-2: Andy Fite: Live In Moscow
Trio improvisations on standard tunes, recorded live at Le Club
Andy Fite, guitar & voice; Sergey Vasilyev, bass; Pavel Timofeev, drums
Other Street, 2003

Ag-3: Andy Fite: Song At the End of the World
New songs by Andy Fite in a state of high anxiety in the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq, plus two improvisations on works by Felix Mendelssohn
Andy Fite, words, music, voice, guitar, bass and percussion
Other Street, 2003

Ag-4: Andy Fite: Twenty Years
The years 1981-2000 retold in 21 new songs by Andy Fite, including ”I Wanna Die”
Andy Fite, words, music, voice and guitar
Other Street, 2001

Ag-5: Andy Fite: JS: Jazz Conversations with Bach
Improvisations on a variety of Bach’s music
Andy Fite, guitar (multi-track)
Other Street, 1999

Ag-6: Andy Fite Trio: Sex With My Ex
New songs and improvisations on standard tunes
Andy Fite, guitar and voice, words and music; Ulf Åkerhielm, bass; Sebastian
Voegler, drums
Other Street, 2003

Ag-7: Andy Fite plays Hillborg, Haydn, Gesualdo, Mozart & Bach
Improbable improvisations on music by these masters
Andy Fite, guitar (multi-track)
Other Street, 2001

Ag-8: Andy Fite: Andy Fite Rages On!
Stretching out happily on the old standards
Andy Fite, solo guitar and voice
Other Street, 2002

Ag-9: Andy Fite: Preludes and Holidays
Improvsations on Chopin alternating with new songs (each for a different holiday) by Andy Fite
Andy Fite, words, music, voice, guitar, bass and bongos
Other Street, 2004

Ag-10: Andy Fite: Don’t Trust Your Heart
New songs by Andy Fite, including ”Hoping All Your Dreams Come True”
Andy Fite, words, music, guitar, bass and percussion
Other Street, 2002

Ag-11: Andy Fite & Ulf Åkerhielm: A Place to Play
Duo improvisations on standard tunes – some of Ulf Åkerhielm’s best!
Andy Fite, guitar (and voice on one tune), Ulf Åkerhielm, bass
Other Street, 2000

Ag-12: Andy Fite: Bach: Art of the Fugue
Bach’s final masterpiece in a jazz feeling
Andy Fite, guitar (multi-track)
Other Street, 1999

Ag-13: Andy Fite: 24 Preludes (2004)
New compositions inspired by Chopin and Scriabin
Andy Fite, solo guitar
Other Steet, 2004

Ag-14: Andy Fite: 15,000 Days
An autobiography in 15 songs
Andy Fite, voice and guitar; Hasse Larsson, bass
Other Street, recorded live in Stockholm 1999

Ag-15: Andy Fite: New Songs from the Old Testament
Improvisations (and one composed song) from Old Testament texts. The book is even funnier and more horrible than you thought!
Andy Fite, voices, guitars, bongos (multi-track)
Other Street, 2005

Ag-16: Andy Fite: It Was Really Your Roommated I Wanted
New songs by Andy Fite – Andy’s favorite as a whole album
Andy Fite, voices, guitars, bass and bongos (multi-track)
Other Street, 2005

Ag-17: Andy Fite: What Are You, One of Them Rollercoasters?
A love story, from the first spark of sweet interest to the bottomless bitterness of unforgiving memory, in 15 new songs by Andy Fite
Andy Fite, voices, guitars, bass and bongos (multi-track)
Other Street, 2005

Ag-18: Andy Fite: 23 Spams
Solo and multi-track interpretations of spam e-mails
Andy Fite, voices, guitars, bass, bongos and metronomes
Other Street, 2005

Ag-19: Andy Fite: Good Evening Everybody! (Hep Hop, Vol. 1)
Solo improvisations with words
Andy Fite, voice and guitar
Other Street, 2005

Ag-20: Andy Fite: Kinda Kommun (Hep Hop, Vol. 2)
Solo improvisations with words
Andy Fite, voice and guitar
Other Street, 2005

Ag-21: Andy Fite: Melancholy Variations/Four Days
Compositions and improvisations for solo guitar/composition in four
movements for four guitars, created and recorded 2000
Andy Fite, guitar
Other Street, 2005

Ag-22: JS Bach: The Goldberg Variations: a Jazz Interpretation
Bach’s magnificent masterpiece retold in a very new way.
Andy Fite, guitars
Other Street, 2005

Ag-23: Andy Fite: What’s So Good About Being Great? (Hep Hop, Vol. 3)
More improvised poetry and philosphy, plus musical settings of the
index from Grandma’s old fakebook!
Andy Fite, voice and guitar
Other Street, 2005

Ag-24: The Bartlett Romp (Hep Hop, Vol. 4):
Andy Fite sings Marx, Lenin, Lincoln,
Russell, Roosevelt, Fite and others
I guess that says enough already.
Andy Fite, voice and guitar
Other Street, 2005

Ag-25: Andy Fite: Jazz Comic Philosopher
Compiliation disc summarizing some of the best of Andy’s solo work,
intended as an introduction to his unique musical world.
Andy Fite, voice and guitar
Other Street, 2005

Ag-26: Spring
Some of the best of Andy’s songs from the 1990’s in a solo recording from 1998
Andy Fite, voice and guitar
Other Street, 2006

Ag-27: C Variations 2006
Inspired by the Goldberg Variations, an original set on a similar model, based on a chord progression from the jazz standard repertoire
Andy Fite, guitar (multi-track)
Other Street, 2006

Ag-28: A Different Temperament: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Part 1
Another Bach masterwork embraced by an improviser in love with the master, played with great respect and no reverence whatsoever
Andy Fite, guitar (multi-track)
Other Street, 2006

Ag-29: Life’s a Bitch (and I’m Her Guy!)
New songs by Andy Fite – his other favorite as a whole album!
Andy Fite, voice, guitar, bass and bongos
Other Street, 2006

Ag-30: Other People’s Problems
New songs with trouble in the spotlight, much influenced by the advice columns in the newspapers!
Andy Fite, voice, guitar, bass and bongos
Guest voices: Sofie Sörman, Dianna Dønns, Anette Nilsson, Lina Ericson and Virginia Pihlblad
Other Street, 2006

Ag-31: Oratorio: The 5th of February, 2003 – Colin Powell at the UN
His notorious speech attempting to justify the US invasion of Iraq, set in 25 short pieces, reflecting both the tragedy and the farce of it.
Andy Fite, voices, guitars, bass and bongos
Other Street, 2006

Ag-32: From the Book of Revelation
The only possible follow-up to the Powell speech: the Apocalypse set for many voices, reflecting the horror and the grandeur, and also the absurdity, of that book.
Andy Fite, voices, guitars, bass and bongos
Other Street, 2007

Ag-33: Lectures in Music
A work in progress-- still exploring with fascination the potential connections between spoken word and music, specifically the melody that is already there when we simply speak. But at last I'm off these poisonous texts I have so little sympathy with, and onto the thoughts of my own mind. I've been teaching thirty years now and have strong ideas about what is important and true. Most of it has never been written down, but at least now some of it is getting recorded in this form.
Andy Fite, voices, guitars, bass and bongos
Other Street, 2007

Ag-34: Kompis
A recording of solo guitar accompaniments meant for playing along with, based on standard tunes from the classic jazz repertoire.
Andy Fite, guitar
Other Street, 2008

Ag-35: My ABCs: 26 Songs in English
A suite of songs written in the fall of 2007 and recorded in early 2008, based on titles written on each letter of the alphabet. This one is very focused on the songs themselves and the tracks average maybe 2 minutes 20 seconds. There are funny ones and sad ones and romantic ones, and also, practically for the first time with me, quite a few that you wouldn't put in the jazz category, but more-- ah, what shall we say?-- folk-pop, I guess. Anyway, people seem to like them.
Andy Fite, voices and guitars
Milt Badskum, bass
Ho Lee Kao, drum
Other Street, 2008

Carl Arter Quartet: Song From Far Away
Carl Arter, piano; Andy Fite, guitar; Leon Lee Dorsey, bass; Ron Tucker, drums
Earwig Records, Chicago, 1984

Liz Gorrill/Andy Fite: Phantasmagoria
Liz Gorrill, piano & voice; Andy Fite, guitar & voice
New Artists Records, New York, 1988

Liz Gorrill/Andy Fite: Cosmic Comedy
Liz Gorrill, piano; Andy Fite, guitar
Recorded in concert at Greenwich House, New York City
New Artists, 1990

Andy Fite/Red Mitchell: Everybody Got Happy
Andy Fite, guitar and voice; Red Mitchell, bass and voice
Recorded live in Stockholm, Sweden
New Artists, 1991

Krachy, Fite and Dirke: Sweet Fulfillment
Charley Krachy, tenor sax; Andy Fite, guitar & voice; Boel Dirke, piano & voice
New Artists, 1992

Richard Tabnik Quartet: Life at the Core
Richard Tabnik, alto sax; Andy Fite, guitar, Calvin Hill, bass; Roger Mancuso, drums
New Artists, 1992

Andy Fite: Whirlwind
Andy Fite, solo guitar
New Artists, 1994

Bob Casanova: From the Inside Out
Bob Casanova, voice; Andy Fite, guitar; Charley Krachy, tenor sax; Boel Dirke, piano; Rich Califano, bass; Lynn Seaton, bass; Alex Gressel, bass; Carol Tristano, drums; Roger Mancuso, drums
New Artists, 1994

Carol Liebowitz/Andy Fite: Time On My Hands
Carol Liebowitz, voice; Andy Fite, guitar
New Artists, 1997

Harry Schulz: Havin’ a Ball
Harry Schulz, voice; Andy Fite, guitar; Rich Califano, bass; Roger Mancuso, drums
New Artists, 1999

Linda Satin: The Way I Am
Linda Satin, voice; Connie Crothers, piano; Andy Fite, guitar
New Artists, 1999

For more information, visit www.newartistsrecords.com