After finally negotiating a parking spot, your scribe and
his alto rolled in shortly before the workshop participants were ready to play.
Present were Sam (bass), Serdar (guitar), Jack D (trumpet), Carl (trombone) and
Annie (vocals). Steve M (alto) joined the festivities a bit later.
Somehow, I got the first call, and opted for Broadway (I-61). Jack D, next around the
circle, pulled out Long Ago and Far Away
(I-251). I don’t believe we had ever played Carl’s choice, Bessie’s Blues (I-42). Annie took the next one, Easy Living (I-127). She and Carl then
presented us with a fresh chart of Firm
Brown Frame. Serdar is working on All
The Things You Are (I-22), and invited us to work on it with him. Annie
took another vocal, and worked on Hoagy Carmichael’s lovely but surprisingly
confusing I Get Along Without You Very
Well (II-174). Sam changed the tempo with Wes Montgomery’s West Coast Blues (I-436). Steve M pulled
out an old standard, I Left My Heart In
San Francisco (III-168). Annie had a good time with My Heart Belongs To Daddy (III-290).
Back around the circle, yours truly chose Pennies From Heaven (II-309). Annie’s next vocal selection was When I Fall In Love (I-439). Jack D is
always a fan of Bags’ Groove (II-30)
by, of course, Bags. Sam interjected himself in the course of things by calling
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
(II-395). Back to Annie, we got caught
up in Watch What Happens (II-413).
Carl pulled out a favorite, Robbin’s Nest
(II-330). Purely coincidentally, he swears, when I announced that I had to pack
up, Steve M called Get Out Of Town
(II-148). By the time I was ready to go, the crew was on to Annie singing I’ve Got The World On A String
(III-189).
Participant Picks
Lou Rawls and Dianne Reeves, Fine Brown Frame
I Get Along Without
You Very Well
Nina Simone
Diana Krall
Billie Holiday
Wes Montgomery, West
Coast Blues
My Heart Belongs To
Daddy
Eartha Kitt
Peggy Lee (Double-Time feel)
Julie London (in ¾)
John Coltrane, Bessie’s
Blues
It sounds so different when he plays it…
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