Nov 30 Gig

Gig recordings with Vocals.

Soul Eyes

https://www.box.com/s/tbvvkzy6e2nsw8o1wtgh

Summertime

https://www.box.com/s/bs0j4wno5e6lcqncfe4i

 

Killer Joe

https://www.box.com/s/3535pfaahl69pi09us4a
 

There Will Never Be Another You

https://www.box.com/s/v14kbqhs926b6spu7dnr

How High the Moon
https://www.box.com/s/qyq94xm8x8yw9gdbwhlu

In Walked Bud

https://www.box.com/s/truc5s6fz9hxitwj3ihh

Blue in Green

https://www.box.com/s/xk49e5kqiqiclnio3fxd

Look of Love

https://www.box.com/s/hsnz6z1jbqyz5k19eg2r

Manha de Carnaval

https://www.box.com/s/a4w3vv34tc8t88m23rza

Four

https://www.box.com/s/tha7cx7g3gs6jiu9t8d0
 
Night in Tunisia
https://www.box.com/s/4cc9ej7gpfuvmmq7wa5h

I'm mixing in more R&B/Funk since the audience can relate. But other than the change in groove it's really all the same. I need to play simply when I go do funk. Sometimes my brain doesn't switch properly. Also, I'm a little confused on whether to swing in funk or not and it exhibits as hesitations in the feel. Darn.

Other issues are just in not developing ideas. I do it at practice but I can't focus on it on a gig. On this performance, I played a lot of linear lines and just didn't feel like going intervallic which would have opened up more melodic options. I'm sure this was from panic.

My tone was awful. Legato was lost. Everything sounded detached. This was because I was focused on eighth note rhythms.

The recordings may have too loud of a piano sometimes but that's just from where the recorder was located (monitor was pointed at it). So it's more balanced in real life. I've been recently aware that my piano sound had low volume so I made sure that wasn't the case here.

Swing issues exist with the band. Partly it's because the bass player does not play legato and the drummer doesn't have a good ding-ding-a-ding rhythm. It's slightly too long IMO. So he does  better when the rhythm focuses on 2 & 4. We discussed it. Hopefully it will improve next time.

In spite of all my self-critique, the good news is that we do draw a regular audience and our music appeals to them and everyone keeps coming back. It's amazing in a way. We sound a LOT better than a year ago. And maybe by next year, the musicianship level will be commensurate to the audience appreciation. Musicianship still has a ways to go (being critical).