Chromatose . . .

 

Cover Art by Russell E. Jozwiak

Back in the early aughts I remember feeling a bit 'behind the times' regarding digital music, that is digital recording and reproduction of my music. So I read some 'dummies' material and played around until it gradually became more comfortable. After a spell of attempts at marketing original pop songs to other artists, and knowing (and being comfortable with the fact) that I was not nor ever will be a 'vocalist' of any particular distinction, at the suggestions of my three sons, I began recording my compositions as solo piano arrangements - stripped-down, bare-bones, jazz-inflected melodies with generous amounts of improvisation within each. Using a digital four-track machine (TEAC maybe?), I made the recordings then had an album mastered at a local studio, filled-in all the CD Baby forms and released Chromatose.

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Me? . . .

 

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Who, irrespective of religious affiliation, disposition or lack of any at all, can't appreciate a well-done spiritual song?  And by the way, one sure-fire way to determine if your sore throat is serious enough to call in sick to work is to recite, as low, serious and slow as you can, the line, "Why me lord?"

Why Me?
- Kris Kirstofferson

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                 Critic’s Choice

Mother . . .

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Chicago, originally Chicago Transit Authority, included a song on their third album entitled Mother, which was about the callous pollution and bleak future to which we were subjecting our 'Mother Earth.' An excellent song with a trombone duet improvisation, the song went out on a chord progression much like this,  which I had always thought was a beautiful sequence. My song, Mother Chi is based upon that chord progression and appears on my album For The Ride.

 

 
   

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                   Chromatose

Variations . . .

 

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Plunge is a Jay Graboski original which appears on the OHO album Gazebo.  This improvisation resulted from trial-and-error in formulating a keyboard part for Plunge. A challenging set of changes on which to improvise. This performance is replete with the growing pains of a work-in-progress. 

   

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Of The Road . . .

 

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He's in a rage

Simply because

Guy in that car,

Bout twice his age,

Is driving quite slowly.

Tries to contain

His temper as such.

Behind the wheel

He can't do very much.

But he simmers. 

This is the point

Where the tire

Hits the road,

Metaphorically.

Contains himself.

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IF . . .

 . . . we haven't learned, shame on us!

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ase-leanring-vs-just-in-time-learning/

(from The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser)

". . . (he) freely dispensed insults about many of those who worked with and for him, disparaging John Bolton ("a degenerate"), Chris Christie ("sloppy Chris"), Mark Esper ("just wasn't meant for the job"), John Kelly ("wasn't mentally fit for the job"), Jim Mattis ("the world's most overrated general"), H.R. McMaster ("a total lightweight"), Mark Milley ("one of the dumbest people in the world"), Jeff Sessions ("not up to the job"), and Marc Short ("Marc Long"). And those were just the people he had picked to advise him. He also did not think much of Joe Biden, Liz Cheney, James Coney, Ashram Thani, Andrew McCabe, John McCain, Angela Merkel, Lisa Page, Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, Adam Schiff, Peter Strzok, Alexander Vindman or Marie Yovanovitch. . . People he had no words of criticism for? Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jon-un, the January 6 rioters, or white supremecists. . . never explained why he hired so many stupid and mentally unfit people in the first place, much less what that would say about his judgement if they really were so incompetent. . ."

You're No Good
- Linda Ronstadt



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Impress . . .

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master-the-art-of-the-first-impression/273749

Some may say it's a little suggestive,

To name your song a word like impressive.

And also possibly presumptuous,

The opposite of the word humbleness.

You misinterpret my intent.

In bestowing this title, I do repent.

But if music is like fine champagne,

Splurge and get some John Coltrane.

The song Impressive (posted here) originally appeared on my album Another Shot and was inspired by John Coltrane's 'Impressions.'




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