Rehearsal recording.

It has been very useful of late to be recording our rehearsals and listening back to them.  Memory plays such an important role in how we become better as a group.  Remembering what we've done and being able to recast those elements every time in a new light is very important to me.  I don't particularly remember at the time we had rehearsal feeling particularly good about this run through, but, listening to it again, I can hear that I've been practicing, but still need to work more on it. 

Anyway, here is the link.  

I would love to hear comments from you readers who do happen upon here.  Thanks. 

Teasers Last

The improv turned into one of my favorite songs ever.  I wont tell you what it is, I'd rather like you to have the lightbulb go off.  Thank for listening, enjoy.

Teasers III

This one is how we warmed up that night for rehearsal.  Completely improvised

Teasers II

I loved this video as a teenager.  

Doesn't it make for such a great trio song?   The most challenging thing about a trio is that everyone needs to have a hand on the ball.  This of course is what makes playing in a trio so rewarding.

Teasers

These come from a recent rehearsal.  Andrew might be new to some of you, but as you can see, he is an excellent choice.  Clem is such a brilliant amazing musician that his gravitation towards more and ever different project was inevitable, but this new formation has been good for me.   We play at the Take Five Coffee + Bar  on January 18th.   Please join us.  Now for a flyer and some teasers.

The thing I like best about having this band is that we talk about what we've done, or what we're going to attempt, and continue that communication while we play.  Together the arrangements that we come up with for our repertoire are sometimes magical.

Country Music

I love this song.  Of course, I'll never play it as well as the red headed stranger.  It's got lots of nice room to play around in.  As a joke to ourselves we decided once that we would keep going up a half step each time around.  I rarely have the patience to stick with it all 4 times.  

All of a sudden Kansas City is on a national spotlight for it's "Jazz District"  Which makes me think, I wonder if we could ever play a gig at the Blue Room? 

Such a seminal song and video from the late 90's.   We also play a Nirvana song, and I find it fascinating and actually not surprising that both Heart Shaped Box and Black Hole Sun are in Ab minor.  Seriously a bitch of a key, but at the same highly instructional.  

I remember fondly the big smiles all smeared across the people's faces and the lady with the man doing pushups and the couple with the great dane combing his hair and the "welcoming committee"  But of course if you are my age I'd wager you do too.