A lovely afternoon was developing as the group slowly
gathered. We did not actually count off the first tune until almost noon. Sam
(bass) chose St. Thomas (II-339) to
kick things off. Wes (tenor) brought in a non-Real Book tune, Coltrane’s A
Love Supreme. Yours truly (alto), went with a bouncy version of the ballad Too Young (II-403). Jack K (trumpet)
also brought some outside material, pulling out the Sam Rivers tune Beatrice. Gene (drums), after naming
several tunes we couldn’t find (he has a million of them in there), finally
settled on we could find, but still didn’t know, Like Young (II-240), during which Jack pulled up stakes. Sam, under
the influence of Todd (trumpet), came back with the familiar How High The Moon (I-180).
By this time Annie (vocals), Carl (trombone) and Divk
(vocals) arrived. Annie took two: the smoky Teach
Me Tonight (III-387), and the gentle The
Folks Who Live On The Hill (III-136). Dick responded with two of his own, In A Mellowtone (I-206), and Have You Met Miss Jones (I-172). Time for an instrumental: while Gene took a
break, I sat down at the drums to keep time on Tune Up. Wes kept a beat going on drums while we played Annie’s
next request, My Romance (I-289),
followed by My Shining Hour (I-290).
On Dick’s next turn, we took up Dearly
Beloved (I-103). As an instrumental, we took on one that Annie had decided
against earlier, One Note Samba
(I-314). We finished off the afternoon with two more from Annie, Sugar (I-387) and They’ll Be Some Changes Made
(I-408).
Participant Picks
Sam: Bozen Brass,
Black and White (not exactly jazz, but cool nonetheless)
Greg:
Peggy Lee, Why Don’t You Do Right? (A pick left over from last week)
Gene: Dizzy Gillespie, Chega
de Saudade (No More Blues) (Jobim)
Wes: John Coltrane, Up
Against the Wall
Jack K: Sam Rivers, Beatrice
Annie: Bill Henderson, The
Folks Who Live On The Hill
Dick: Sammy Davis Jr., My
Shining Hour
Steve H: Here are two
songs that got me through a few break-ups, when played back to back really loud
about fifteen or twenty times in a row until the roommates complain:
Duke Ellington, Prelude to a Kiss and
Perdido
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