| Title | Composer(s) | Notes |
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| Desolation Row | All compositions available on this webpage are by Mike Shafto unless otherwise noted. | Track 1 of Radar Base TX
 The eponymous street is actually in Radar Base TX. |
| Blair the Square | Track 1 of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 6
Basic ideas adapted from Arnold Schoenberg & Sonny Stitt |
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| SIster Brinley | |
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| Silesian Dawn | Inspired by Jimmy Wyble,
The Art of Two-Line Improvisation |
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| Transfiguration Blues | How fast can robots play? |
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| The Hedge of Black Thorns | |
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| A Feast of Snacks (take 2) | |
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| Granny Salis | |
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| Bobo LeBorro | |
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| Zot! (take 4) | It's a UC Irvine thing. |
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| Tarskian Fantasy | referring to Alfred Tarski (1901-1983) |
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| Commentary | Final track of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 6 |
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| Joshua Tree | Track 1 of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 5 | |
| No Time Now | ||
| Knute's Canoe | ||
| Fizzy | ||
| Passers-by | ||
| Bergen Bounce | Solos based on Eric Dolphy, "Dahomey Dance", (Weimar Project transcription) | |
| Radiation | ||
| Lu's Cha Cha | ||
| Homino Idea | ||
| Cardinals' Inn | Final track of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 5 | |
| Funky Machine 2 | All compositions in Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 4 are written, performed, and produced by Jay Shafto | Track 1 of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 4 |
| WhataMelon | |
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| Frying Monkeys | |
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| Figments | Track 1 of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 3 | |
| Next To Godliness | ||
| Dusty Rails | ||
| Frozen Cookie | ||
| Sherry With a Cherry | ||
| The Missing Riff | ||
| Esther | ||
| Kiko the Kook | ||
| Mercer County | ||
| Verity | Final track of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 3 | |
| Revival 75 | Track 1 of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 2 | |
| Behind the Scenes | ||
| Cooking at Versace Slim's | ||
| Codex | ||
| Mambo 98 | Jay Shafto and Mike Shafto | Based on an etude by John McLaughlin |
| Mambo Pajambo | ||
| Encyclopedic | ||
| Hawking (no horns) | ||
| Hawking | ||
| Algeciras | Final track of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 2 | |
| Firmament | Track 1 of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 1 | |
| Music Mouse | ||
| Ornery Theology | ||
| Bird Suit | ||
| Apology | ||
| Pile of Pearls | ||
| Heptalogy | ||
| Sylviazation | ||
| Barbecue Blues | Final track of Post-Bop Hymnal Volume 1 | |
| Assurance | Track 1 of Assured Aggregates |
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| Immer Denken | ||
| Yum Yum Sauce | Mike Shafto & Sylvia Shafto | |
| They Left It On Top Of My Tesla | ||
| Spangles | A tribute to the Spangles restaurants of Wichita, Kansas "Baby, a Spangles burger will never do you wrong. All those other nowheresville burgers? Those are for squares." |
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| Proximity | ||
| Aggregation | ||
| Fount of Ambiguity | ||
| Leviticus 19 | ||
| Romans 7 | ||
| Grey Dunes | Final track of Assured Aggregates |
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| Dogs Got Rhythm | Track 1 of Jazz Concentrate |
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| Tucumcari | |
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| Hard To Light | |
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| iThing | |
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| Poco Roboto | |
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| One For Erik | |
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| Concrescence | |
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| Entitled | |
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| Untitled | |
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| Blue Potato Blues | Final track of Jazz Concentrate |
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| Modern Narrative | Selected tracks from the album Next | |
| Good Faith Blues | ||
| Donuts and More | ||
| Extra Buttons | ||
| Circuit Breaker | ||
| I Remember Gerald | ||
| Laveyda | ||
| Three Shirts and a Coffee Maker | revised June 12, 2022 Last selected track from the album Next |
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| Committee For Nostalgia | Selected tracks from the album Quickies |
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| Cucumber Vine | ||
| El Hugo | ||
| Lion's Court | ||
| Lacking a Lady | ||
| Ray Ray 4U | ||
| Phroebe | revised June 10, 2022 | |
| Marblino | revised June 9, 2022 Last selected track from the album Quickies |
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| Vavau | First track of Selections from Shakedown Not Vava'u, the island group in Tonga. Vavau, the village in Upolu, Samoa. |
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| Parametric | ||
| The Library Song (781_655) | 781.655 is the Dewey Decimal code for Modern Jazz. | |
| Lake Tower Song Flower | ||
| Phosphine | Not phosphene. | |
| Stoking It | There's no "r" in "stoking". | |
| Nigel's Summer Home | Final track of Selections from Shakedown | |
| X43 | First track of selections from the album Sketches of Legrand Jazz, an homage to Michel Legrand's great album from 1958. | |
| Possible Birds | ||
| Angle of Attack | revised June 6, 2022 | |
| Latter Days | ||
| Dance Nuance | ||
| Pomona | ||
| Evasion | ||
| Baylands | ||
| Mid-Afternoon | Final track of Selections from Sketches of Legrand Jazz | |
| Dance for Five Angels | First composition of 2020 Five Angels Image by Giovanni di Paolo Condé Chantilly |
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| Tribute to Charles Ives | The only intentional intersection with Charles Ives's music is through allusions to and quotations of the hymn tune "My Faith Looks Up to Thee", pp. 67-68 in The Charles Ives Tunebook (Clayton W. Henderson, second edition, Indiana University Press, 2008). | |
| Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night | Based on the famous poem by Dylan Thomas | |
| James 5 | Based on James 5 (New Testament NRSV) | |
| Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror, Part 1 | The eponymous poem is by John Ashbery | |
| Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror, Part 2 | ||
| Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror, Part 3 | ||
| The Ice Storm | The eponymous poem is by John Ashbery | |
| Etude No. 1 ("Aspects of 20th Century Music") | After examples in Aspects of 20th Century Music by Richard DeLone et al., ISBN 0-13-049346-5 | |
| Etude No. 2 ("Lament") | After Henry Purcell, Aria from Act III of Dido and Aeneas, "Remember Me" | |
| Etude No. 3 ("Adagietto") | After Mahler: "Adagietto," Fifth Symphony, 4th Movement | |
| Wagner 429 | Selected studies based on songs and motifs from Wagner's operas. 429 is based on Parsifal. |
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| Wagner 364 | Die Meistersinger | |
| Wagner 310 | Tristan und Isolde | |
| Wagner 251 | Götterdämmerung | |
| Wagner 191 | Siegfried | |
| Wagner 152 | Die Walküre | |
| Symphony 1 ("The Man With the Blue Guitar") in one movement | Based on the eponymous poem by Wallace Stevens | |
| Symphony 2 ("Owl's Clover") in one movement | Based on the eponymous poem by Wallace Stevens | |
| Symphony 3 ("Foreign Song") 1st Movement | Based on "Earthy Anecdote" by Wallace Stevens | |
| Symphony 3 ("Foreign Song") 2nd Movement | Based on "In the Carolinas" by Wallace Stevens | |
| Symphony 3 ("Foreign Song") 3rd Movement | Based on "Invective Against Swans" by Wallace Stevens | |
| Symphony 3 ("Foreign Song") 4th Movement | Based on "Of Mere Being" by Wallace Stevens | |
| Symphony 4 ("The Comedian As the Letter 'C'") 1st Movement | Based on
The Comedian as the Letter 'C'
by Wallace Stevens "The World without Imagination" |
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| Symphony 4 ("The Comedian As the Letter 'C'") 2nd Movement | "Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatan" | |
| Symphony 4 ("The Comedian As the Letter 'C'") 3rd Movement | "Approaching Carolina" | |
| Symphony 4 ("The Comedian As the Letter 'C'") 4th Movement | "The Idea of a Colony" | |
| Symphony 4 ("The Comedian As the Letter 'C'") 5th Movement | "A Nice Shady Home" | |
| Symphony 4 ("The Comedian As the Letter 'C'") 6th Movement | "And Daughters with Curls" | |
| Symphony 5 ("Ghosts") 1st Movement | ||
| Symphony 5 ("Ghosts") 2nd Movement | ||
| Symphony 5 ("Ghosts") 3rd Movement | ||
| Symphony 5 ("Ghosts") 4th Movement | ||
| Symphony 18.5, Movement 1 ("Softly and Tenderly") | Based on the hymn by Will L. Thompson | |
| Symphony 18.5, Movement 2 | Variations on "Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?" | |
| Symphony 18.5, Movement 3 ("I Know Where I'm Going") | Based on the Scottish or Irish folk song | |
| Symphony 18.5, Prelude to Movement 4 | ||
| Symphony 18.5, Movement 4 | Themes from Ballads and Folk Songs of the Southwest, by Ethel and Chauncey O. Moore. University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. | |
| Symphony 18.5, Movement 5 | Using thematic material from The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. (1940). New York: The Church Pension Fund | |
| Symphony 21 ("Easter"), Prelude | Easter Image | |
| Symphony 21 ("Easter"), 1st Movement | ||
| Symphony 21 ("Easter"), 2nd Movement | ||
| Symphony 21 ("Easter"), 3rd Movement | ||
| Symphony 21 ("Easter"), 4th Movement | ||
| Symphony 21 ("Easter"), 5th Movement | ||
| Symphony 21 ("Easter"), Postlude | ||
| Symphony 21 ("Easter"), Finale | ||
| Push | Jay Shafto | Legacy 1995. Composed for a Pomona College dance concert. Remastered from tape by Production Value Productions for Piltdown Music. |
| Studio Jam Drone original | Jay Shafto | Legacy undated |
| Studio Jam Drone piltdown | Jay Shafto | Legacy undated |
| Studio Jam Drone distortion | Jay Shafto | Legacy undated |
| Angular Momentum | ca. 1999 | |
| Kyrie | Unknown | Swing adaptation for 8-string guitar, ca. 1999 |
| Techno Thing | Jay Shafto | 2001 |
| Caine Plain | Based on a solo by Uri Caine. 2003 | |
| Cat Man Do | 2005 | |
| Calorita | 2006 | |
| Chocolate Sox | A new arrangement of a tune from the 1960s | |
| Jazz for Feldman | Legacy 2006 | |
| Geeks of Lacey Station (take 2) | Legacy 2006 |
