June 2025 - Paul – and some of that Jazz

From the Record Shelves #353 – You’re Getting to Be a Habit With Me – Five things that I enjoy with this. One: That it’s a 78 rpm record. Now you hear it through your computer or telephone, but here in my living room with my equipment, the presence of the recording is unbearable. Two: The record (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #94 – Rosetta – Here’s a jam on another tune that is fit for that purpose. The tempo that I’ve chosen is somewhere between Fats Waller’s (slower) and Frankie Newton’s with a swing ensemble (faster). Earl Hines wrote the tune and recorded it as a piano solo (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #93 – Am I Blue – Today I play one in jam session mode. First there is the verse and then a couple of choruses, mostly played ensemble. In the 80s and 90s we had plenty of sessions to try out tunes like this one. We often met more than once in a week to jam, but now it’s at best once a month (…) read more and listenread more and listen