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Falling Grace
https://app.box.com/s/ibogoil9m51b4sfb8o69

Sorry, such a poor recording. Can't hardly hear the piano.

Anyway, it is an uptempo version of a very difficult tune. Had a little train wreck at the head so I just cut it off.

Not that much of a wreck. Despite it's a difficult tune you have some nice lines in there . . . this arrangement might sound a tad better with a Rhodes.

So this weeks Jam of the Week; ballads. You don't know what love is, is my choice:

Sounds great to me Jazzwee, one of those really tricky tunes with an unusual form. No train wreck noticed by me.

Chrisbell - This is an interesting approach to this tune, I thought it was lovely.

I hope you don't mind me sharing this - I have been playing this tune for years but have recently been playing about with it , adding some chords here and there and working out the skeleton of the arrangement.

Here's a solo version of Alfie https://app.box.com/s/vfoqeei5p747qdjf878o

So envious of your sound. It's so refined. I hope I don't have to wait 38 years for that kind of smoothness. I'll be too old to play.

Dump the digital! You sound too good for that.

beautiful!

Very nice, jazztpt. Its Elfie isn't it ?
Is this an entirely rehearsed arrangement?

Excellent changes and nice arrangement. Sounds great.

Jazzwee, Bobpickle, Greener.

Thanks for the feedback and listening.

Jazzwee - would love an accoustic (grand) but I have nowhere for it to go unfortunatly.

Greener - 95% pre-rehearsed but that 95% didn't all come out as it should but as it's my arrangment no one knows which bits. All the right notes but not necessarily in the right order.

"Elfie" - stone the crows mate , have you been watching Oliver Twist or sumink ?

Thanks Jazztpt, appreciate it.

Very nice arrangement! Nicely played too!

Hey Chris
Wonderful work especially your space, your across-the-changes sound, those descending melodic lines, and the LH voice.

JW
I don't know the tune but you sound confident especially with stringing the long lines.

Jazzpt
Nice arrangement especially the inner lines.

Thanks Cus!

Here's some tunes from this week. Quartet (Sax).

Cantaloupe Island
https://app.box.com/s/70zz11qbyw24gxk867gj

Afro Blue
https://app.box.com/s/4mdpqbwhi7wa5t0untdv



Vocal Tunes

You Don't Know What Love Is
https://app.box.com/s/hqko2wvl7u7juefvtsak


Take the A-Train
https://app.box.com/s/6kzilh0vsq34vno36p6z

Hey JW
Nice work on Cantaloupe Is. In particular I liked
- your sparse comping
- your announcement to your solo
- shape of your lines

Thanks, cus. I really liked the way that tune turned out too. I don't know if you noticed but the Bass player obscured the beat when I started my solo (he played off the beat at times). I was forced to react by playing a bit more free.

Back in the old days, that would have caused me to panic. No problem this time. Also I felt a little bit of an actual Herbie influence there. Maybe the syncopation

Jazzwee - Cantaloupe Island particularly outstanding, loved your solo, great lines and rhythmic variations.

I don't post recordings, but I still take lessons and have the annual recital coming up, which is one of the few occasions I have to play solo publicly. This year I'm working up Dolphin Dance and Chick Corea's Crystal Silence. Two amazing compositions. I'm sure I'll play Dolphin Dance with my trio, but Crystal Silence is more of a solo, rubato kind of piece, unless I'm lucky enough to find a vibes player someday (it's the title tune from probably the best Chick Corea/Gary Burton duo album).

Very nice Jw. Both tracks. Nice solos. Cool piano sound too

Thanks Jazztpt and knotty!

BTW Knotty that wasn't piano. When I'm doing Funk, etc. I switch to the CP80 Electric Grand. Otherwise I get buried by the Rhythm section. This was the first time I've done that. Looks like it's sounding good for this.

I stick to normal piano for normal jazz tunes though.

jjo, why don't you post recordings? Didn't you used to? I recall hearing you play something before. BTW - as you know I'm thinking about organ and I ALMOST went for an Nord Electro 3 HP. Pulled back a little. I'm playing with organ on my IPAD garage band just so i understand how it works. I can probably MIDI it from my existing board too. Cheaper method for awhile. But allows me to still learn.