Jim Pfeifer is a solo composer/artist creating a variety of instrumental music for use in film/TV and advertising, combining elements of acoustic, surf, retro, Americana, and orchestral arrangements.  His songs have been placed in various shows including "Ozzy & Jack's World Detour", "Return To Amish", "Housewives of New York City", "The Ride That Got Away", "The Garden" and others.



Latest News

New Placement

My song "Secrets In The Darkness" has been placed in the show "The Garden" on the Discovery Channel.

Bio

Jim started on guitar at the age of 12, studying with a Jazz guitarist during his high school years in Tucson, Arizona while playing in school Jazz Band and various classic rock bands. Early on he had a fascination with creating chord-melody arrangements of his favorite songs, which is where he learned harmony and arranging techniques.

During college he majored in Electrical Engineering but continued his studies with courses music theory, Jazz improvisation, and electronic music. He also gigged regularly playing in various bands performing in a variety of styles Tejano, Dixeland, Bigband Jazz, Top40, and Fusion. He began working at a local recording studio, helping songwriters arrange and record demos of their songs. He was inspired to start his own home studio during the 80s after working with so many other musicians who were taking advantage of the newly-available decent-quality gear coming to market for home studios.

After college lived in LA for several years where he worked as an engineer by day, and continued playing music on the side. He did several demo projects with New Age artist Michael Hoppe, as well as several children's music projects. In 1994 he moved to Phoenix to raise his family and continued to play with several bands in the Phoenix area.

He also started focusing on writing his own original material and doing session work on the side. Some of the session work included projects with Tommy DeVitto, one of the founding members of The Four Seasons (of Franki Valli fame). Jim started his own music blog in 2013 about composing and recording for home studios, called crazycomposer.com

He continues to write and record his own music in addition to actively gigging in the Phoenix area.

Jim is a 2nd place winner in the 2013 International Songwriting Competition for his song "The Invasion of Mayberry"

Jim's music has been placed in TV shows on A&E, TLC Network, E! Channel in addition to corporate websites and podcasts.

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Comments

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Rae' Ven Rae
over 30 days ago to Jim Pfeifer

I simply love your sound. Honestly, with "The Desert" I did not want it to end. Thank you. :-)

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Jim Pfeifer
over 30 days ago

Thanks so much Rae'Ven Rae!



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Bill Dake
over 30 days ago to Jim Pfeifer

Jim,
Wanted to thank you for the kind remarks and the 5's for Pale Vanilla Moon. Jazz isn't a big seller on Bjam so I'm always surprised at the different responses...and also how few folks actually take the time to do so.
Wishing you continued success.

Your friend,
Mr. Bill

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Jim Pfeifer
over 30 days ago

No problem Bill. I know how it feels, as if you're creating music in a vacuum and nobody hears it :-) I like to encourage fellow songwriters/music-producers to keep doing what they do. I hope that you have fun creating more music for future projects.

Jim Pfeifer
over 30 days ago

I feel this way about my own music. Its hard to raise above the noise sometimes.



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John Walradt
over 30 days ago to Jim Pfeifer

"Rhinestone Boots and Cowboy Boots" has some hilarious sounds that really capture the feel of a country honky tonk cowboy bar and that's a very good thing. You are always great with melody! The arrangement is superb...keeps it interesting. Since you began the Americana series, you've really been on a roll coming through with excellent music, one right after the other!

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Jim Pfeifer
over 30 days ago

Thanks so much John, its very much appreciated! I'm so glad to hear that someone understands what I'm trying to to convey with these songs. Good luck with all of your music projects. I noticed that one of your tracks is in the Top 10 Rock category, congratulations!!

John Walradt
over 30 days ago

Thank you, Jim. I hope if I can hear what you're wanting to get across, the decision makers in the industry notices it, too. I'm surprised at the Hard Rock category because that sort of song is a stretch for me. I was very happy with my previous two, "Raindrop Soul," which I consider to be the most beautiful song I ever wrote, and the recent "Just Another Weekend," which has very conversational words but I still focus very much on melody because the melody carries so much emotional weight. The tune is so important to me that it surprises me how so many members put the melody in the back seat. "Just Another Weekend" debuted in the Earth chart at #1 in August which was something of a surprise, becoming my third trip there. The fickle charts do something I call the Broadjam Bounce...songs bouncing up and down, off and back on again. Makes me wonder what arrays and scripts are written into the code! Some of the other songs on the Earth chart really make me scratch my head, but so does the Billboard chart!

Jim Pfeifer
over 30 days ago

That's awesome that your songs made it in to Broadjam Earth! I've only had that happen a couple of times but it blew me away. I wish you all the luck with your songs. You should try for some opportunities with provider and see if you can get some of your songs placed.



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