Tunes on Tuesday: Wrong Amount of Right
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…
#TunesOnTuesday shares a Kurt Weill classic "My Ship." I chose it to celebrate the birthday (May 27) of the great Dee Dee Bridgewater, who recorded it and other Weill classics on her 2002 album "This is New"
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Tunes on Tuesday: My Ship
Why this tune? Kurt Weill wrote “My Ship” in 1941 for the musical “Lady in the Dark,” featuring lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Weill got his start as a classical composer in his na…
Tunes on Tuesday: Prelude to a Kiss
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…
Tunes on Tuesday: Two For The Road
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…
Tunes on Tuesday: As Water Covers The Sea
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 …
#TunesOnTuesday on Wednesday this week with "Think Spring," sadly still relevant in DC until the weather catches up with the change of season. Barbara Papendorp joined me for this demo recording of the song, which we've already added to our winter set lists.
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Tunes on Tuesday: Think Spring
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…
Tunes on Tuesday: Grown Up Since Tuesday
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…
Tunes on Tuesday: The Last Banana
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…
Tunes on Tuesday: Love In Spring (ลมหนาว)
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…
#TunesOnTuesday shares the second draft of "At Sixty," a song I wrote last year just after passing that milestone. I didn't change the number but did rework the lyrics in hopes of making the story clearer. Still needs some work before it can leave the nest as a complete song.
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Tunes on Tuesday: At Sixty
Why this tune? I wrote the first draft of this song early in 2023, soon after I turned sixty. I wanted to express some of the strangeness of reaching an age that had always seemed so far away. I li…
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