Ryan I Am

Just improvising around tonight on one of my favorite jazz pieces, Blues Changes. Unedited.

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In a different year on a different blog, I started something I called ‘Song of the Week’. The plan was to take one song, record a quick version on the piano and post the recording. I also took suggestions on what songs I would play. Then I got insanely busy for about a year.

In its new reincarnated form, the Song of the Week will not be weekly, more like bi-weekly. But I can’t call it ‘Song of Bi-Weekly’ and ‘Song of the Somewhat Random Time Period’ doesn’t sound all that hot either.

Oh yeah, one other thing. I used to take requests. That landed me with the daunting proposition of somehow making Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the Hokey Pokey sound cool:

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Well, I tried my best! So from now on, I pick the songs. Easy ones, like Happy Birthday:

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So stay tuned for next week. Or the Next Somewhat Random Time Period.