The Penultimate Saturday Workshop

After today there is only one more Saturday jazz workshop before we switch to Monday evenings. We'll meet at noon on 5/16/09 for the last Saturday workshop until the fall, and then we'll start on Monday evenings- on 5/18 from 6:00-7:45, off on 5/25/ for Memorial Day and then weekly from 6:00-8:45 on Mondays starting 6/1/09. Got that?



The focus today was on getting tunes together for upcoming gigs at the McRae Park Fun Day on 6/6/09 and the Freedom Jazz Festival on 8/1/09 from 12:00-12:30 PM. Despite the nice weather and beckoning yard work, 10 jazzers turned up today: Annie, Dick and Vicki (all vocals), Jim (baritone sax), Wes (tenor sax), Paul (guitar), Craig (guitar), Matt (flute), Christian (piano), Charles (tuba) and Tim (guitar)



Songs played during the "instrumental hour" included "Blus Bossa," "People Will Say We're In Love," "Tenor Madness," "Yardbird Suite" and a preliminary look at 'In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" which Tim hopes to arrange for the horns. With "September Song" we transitioned into the regular workshop at 1:00, with Annie taking the vocals. Other songs included an uptempo workup of "Feeling Good," "Day By Day," "Corcovado," "Cousin Mary," "I Get Along Without You Very Well," "East of the Sun," "You've Changed," "Out of Nowhere," "Flintstones," "Georgia On My Mind," "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans," "I Thought About You" and with "Ornithology" for the closer.