From the Studio
From the Studio
opening the door to other daily activities
As you may have seen here, I’m quite busy listening to and enjoying records. But I am also playing.
There are different sorts of motivations for that. One is that if somebody asks me to come and play, I usually do so when the conditions are reasonable.
Then there is the need to play and the inspiration to do it. When I listen to well-produced pop records or classical music, I’m just enjoying it, but when I listen to jazz, I almost always find ideas about something to add or something to use as a base for creating something new. It speaks to me, and I want to join in the fun!
As I have a room that I like to call my home studio and a lot of good vintage instruments, I will make recordings and let anyone interested have a listen.
I do not want to impress or try to sell myself, but rather want to introduce you to nice tunes and sometimes whole arrangements. Like in a jam session, there will be ups and downs, and that’s only natural.
From the Studio #8 – Four or Five Times – Here is a jam on a tune that I think is quite suitable for just that. Often, when we play at parties, we don’t have a list of tunes to choose from, and this one is frequently there. Here I play it in Eb. To get further inspiration there are (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Studio #7 – Through – Today, it became a clarinet and muted cornet duet. After that, a solo with a saxophone background. It’s a nice song, and I could have made a vocal effort, but for once the lyrics don’t appeal to me (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Studio #6 – C’est si bon – C’est si bon was recorded by Yves Montand and had, as far as I know, a moderate success in France, but when Louis Armstrong did his version, “C’est si bon, people say that in France,” (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Studio #5 – Here Comes the Sun – This song has such a positive title that it has been used for several ones. It’s not the one by George Harrison, but he might have heard and liked it since he played the ukulele and was a fan of 1920s songs (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Studio #4 – Alexander’s Ragtime Band – I don’t know if it is this, White Christmas, or maybe another tune that was the most successful in the eyes of their composer, Irving Berlin (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Studio #3 – Squeeze Me – When I have the time and energy, it’s fun and instructive to attempt to record a big band arrangement. In the 1920s, ten or nine, even 8 piece orchestras were considered big bands, normally consisting of three saxes and a brass section (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Studio #2 – Say It Isn’t So – I play and record some in my home studio. Sometimes it’s a quick jam session thing, sometimes I get inspired to do a little bit more, and then as third mode I feel that I need to do a whole arrangemen (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Studio #1 – A Porter’s Love Song to a Chambermaid – The first out is A Porter’s Love Song too a Chamber Maid. The tune is much less complicated than the title and it’s a good one for a jam session. On classical recordings there is one by Jimmie Noone (…) read more and listenread more and listen