Sunday, May 19, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Postively Working on "Loverman"
New York City is waiting outside my window, I hear it barking, honking and blaring. The sun is out and the leaves are green on trees I never noticed before. It's not winter anymore so they got dressed up to celebrate.
Well, I'd rather stay in and play the piano and sing these songs.
The outside can wait, my fingers are itchin'!
Please take a listen.
Friday, May 10, 2013
In a Melancholy Madness
Piano and Vocal
In my Real Jazz Fake Book are pieces by Monk, Basie, Coltrane, Holiday and Sondheim. Sondheim? Stephen Sondheim? Doesn't he write for Broadway? Indeed he does and what he has in common with the aforementioned Jazz Greats is that he writes beautiful compositions and touches a place only music can communicate.
He is not the first Broadway Composer I have found in the pages of my Jazz Books. Johnny Green's Body and Soul, Irving Berlin , Gershwin, Loesser and Lowe ,
Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife for god's sake!
The list goes go on and on but the point is that good music transcends style and place.
I hope I did this piece proud.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
A little Piano and Vocal Expedition for your Listening Pleasure
Performed by Yours Truly and recorded on my iPhone
There are some days when I feel guilty not leaving the house but today was not one of them. Seven hours of playing the piano and working on my stuff.
The guy upstairs better say Nothing!! I listen to him clomp around all week and he had the gall to complain about the music downstairs. He's up there a'clomping now and it's Saturday night!
Turns out all that noise from his place is a hair salon that he's been running. We're looking for a new place to live.
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