Sorry about the last two weeks. One week, I forgot to take
notes, and the other, I lost the notes from the session before I got around to
setting them to binary code.
This week, though, we had Sam (bass), Phil (piano), Steve M
(alto), Jack D (trumpet), Wes (tenor) and yours truly (soprano and alto) to get
started. Carl (trombone), Annie (vocals) and Dick (vocals) came in after an
hour.
We got rolling with Sam’s starter for the week, a medium
Latin version of Tangerine (II-386).
Phil sent us in a different direction with Miles’ Tune Up (I-418). Taking a left turn off that, Steve M chose Stella By Starlight (I-382). Jack D
called one of his favorites (and who doesn’t like it?), Cry Me A River (III-89). Your scribe pulled up one that doesn’t get
out too often, Ellington’s I Ain’t Got
Nothin’ But The Blues (III-152).
We didn’t get all the way around to Wes when it was time for
vocals. Annie got first crack with the ballad The Nearness Of You (II-285). Dick was ready to go with Nature Boy, which turned out to be on
the facing page (II-284). We took an instrumental moment, and Wes decided to
continue our work on Donna Lee
(I-123). Several more vocals followed:
Annie called for It Never Entered My Mind
(III-205); Dick pulled out an old favorite, I Could Write A Book (I-186). Then Annie suggested a duet, and Dick
decided it was Just Friends, a
version Dick had among his musical effects. For the instrumental break, Carl
asked for Charlie Parker’s My Little
Suede Shoes (II-282). We finished out the evening with two more vocals for
Annie: Blame It On My Youth (II-51)
and I’m Old Fashioned (III-187).
Particpant’s Picks
People playing at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club
Winton Marsalis Quartet, Delfeayo’s
Dilemma
Ronnie Scott Orchestra, Ting-A-Ling
Oscar Peterson Trio
Anita O-Day
Lots of people
Enjoy.
--SJH
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