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Tunes on Tuesday: You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To
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Why this tune? This week I took some time to add another jazz standard to the repertoire of tunes I can play comfortably without the music. The educators all say that the best way to do that is to …
on Tue, 3PM
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Tunes on Tuesday: Wrong Amount of Right
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Why this tune? This week’s tune is another from my January song-a-day challenge, that I finally got around to “polishing” for this recording. I wrote this in response to the promp…
on Jun 24
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Tunes on Tuesday: You and the Night and the Music
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Why this tune? In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month in the US, this week’s tune is a tribute to one of the many Jewish American composers who helped create the body of work we know as t…
on May 22
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Tunes on Tuesday: Prelude to a Kiss
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Why this tune? April 30 is International Jazz Day, established by UNESCO in 2011 to celebrate this BlackAmerican music we call jazz and its role in global diplomacy around the world. The date was c…
on Apr 30
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Tunes on Tuesday: Two For The Road
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Why this tune? This week’s we’re celebrating the 100th birthday of the great composer Henry Mancini with one of my favorite Mancini songs. “Two For The Road” is the title so…
on Apr 24
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Tunes on Tuesday: As Water Covers The Sea
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Why this tune? This week’s tune is another original that I wrote in 2016. it’s an instrumental tune exploring some harmonic ideas. I chose the title after I wrote the tune, deciding to …
on Apr 2
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Tunes on Tuesday: Think Spring
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Why this tune? Tunes on Tuesday comes out on Wednesday this week with “Think Spring,” which I wrote in January this year, when we were waiting impatiently for warmer days to come. It…
on Mar 27
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Tunes on Tuesday: Grown Up Since Tuesday
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Why this tune? This week’s tune is another song I started in January and finally got around to polishing into a more complete form. The idea for this one, like so many others, came from a con…
on Mar 19
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Tunes on Tuesday: The Last Banana
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Why this tune? This week’s tune is another work from my January song-a-day challenge. It’s another example of a song inspired by everyday life. In this case it was breakfast, when I neg…
on Mar 12
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Tunes on Tuesday: Love In Spring (ลมหนาว)
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Why this tune? “Love In Spring” was written by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, who wasan accomplished musician and sax player. I learned about this tune and the rest of th…
on Mar 5
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Tunes on Tuesday: I Love You, Shut Up
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Why this tune? I’m sharing Tunes On Tuesday on Wednesday this week (after the long US President’s Day holiday weekend). The idea for “I Love You, Shut Up” started in a conve…
on Feb 29
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Why this tune? I’m spending time this month reviewing and revising songs I have written or started to write, as part of a larger goal to plan out some recording projects for the next year or …
on Feb 13
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Tunes on Tuesday: Let’s Wander
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Why this tune? I’m writing this from Los Angeles, where I spent a few days attending the Grammy ceremonies and schmoozing at a series of pre-Grammy parties and mixers. The trip was an outcome…
on Feb 6
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Tunes on Tuesday: Autumn Leaves
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Why this tune? The thermometer here in Washington, DC tells us that it’s truly autumn in our region. That and the falling leaves, which bring to mind this week’s tune “Autumn Leav…
on Oct 24