Jam of the Week is a FaceBook based group; the assignment usually is: 1 tune, 1 solo chorus. Which tune is decided by Portland trumpeter Farnell Newton.
I started 3 years ago posting. Nr 1 is my first attempt; scroll down for the most current one.

Jam of the Week - a social media inspirational group.

This song is Khaled Habib El Kebich contribution to Radio Popolare Music Contest 2003 which won 2nd price.
its an interpretation of the song "Albachiara" of the Italian Pop-Rock Singer Vasco Rossi

Alba Chiara di Algeri

"The David Baker Lick" Farsta-style based improv

 1. These Things Called Changes
  2. Walkin' Up
  3. The Two Lonely People
  4. Unnamed Composition
  5. Only Child
  6. "Nature Boy Like Tune"
  7. "Pop-Type Tune"
  8. Turn Out The Stars
  9. Orbit
  10. Voicings
  11. Unnamed Waltz
  12. Lover Man
  13. Fly Me To The Moon (Howard) & Star Eyes (Raye)
  14. The Art Of The Fugue (Bach)
  15. Valse (Ogerman)
  16. Pavane & Granados (Ogerman)
  17. Prelude IV (Bach)
  18. Prelude XVII (Bach)
  19. Fugue XXIII (Bach)
  20. Prelude XXIV (Bach)
  21. Medley: Mother Of Earl (Zindars), Fun Ride, Star Eyes (Raye), Short'n'Bread, Only Child

Bill Evans - Practice Tape No.1

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Bob Dylan - Nobel Lecture

Two years ago, Cliff Goldmacher helped me write this song as a surprise for my husband on our wedding day.  Two of our very good friends performed it at our wedding ceremony on May 14, 2010 in Malibu, CA. 
For our 2 year wedding anniversary, I asked Josh Nelson to arrange it for piano, guitar, strings, trumpet, and voice. This is the result!

Sara Gazarek, voice
Josh Nelson, piano, trumpet
Anthony Wilson, guitar
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, strings

"This One Day"
by Cliff Goldmacher & Sara Gazarek
arr by Josh Nelson

Five years but it took Four weeks to say the Three words that were meant for me
Two more minutes til I said it to you
We're down to this One day

FIve dirty dishes, Four shoes by the door, Three little kisses and me wanting more
No time for cleaning cause we’ve got Two cats 
We're down to this One day

It's not one moment, it's not one thing
All of it brought me here
Together the pieces are painting our picture
til this one day appears

Five different reasons that you slammed the door, Four times I acted like a Three year old
Two stubborn people in love through the war
We're down to this one day

It's not one moment, It's not one thing
All of it brought me here
Together the pieces are painting our picture
til this one day appears

Five years but it took Four weeks to say the Three words that were meant for me
Two more minutes til I said it to you
We're down to this One day

This One Day

Sara Gazarek
Thirsty Ghost
2019

--

“I see who you are… And it’s so much bigger, so much deeper, so much more multi-dimensional than your music is right now. Don’t be afraid to walk away from what you think people want from you – and to step into all of the depth, darkness, and radiance of who you really are. That’s what we are thirsty for. The honest, messy, beautiful YOU. -Kurt Elling

…

Stumbling into a recording contract right out of college not only came with big management and an even bigger booking agency -- it also came with big responsibility. At 20 years old, I was recording, touring, receiving great press, and heartfelt feedback from fans. And, while everything in my career seemed to be moving in the right direction, I now see how this level of visibility at such a young age could create a certain amount of pressure to “be the happy girl in the dress” that everyone expected. The ultimate goal was a set of fun, light music that left people feeling happier than when they’d come in the door. And we were giving it to them.

But 15 years in, now, as a 35 year old woman processing the dissolution of a marriage, the separation of a long term musical partnership, and my mothers almost catastrophic car accident, it was my dear friend and mentor Kurt Elling who spoke those very poignant words, and sent me on an incredibly transformative path.

The resulting musical journey took three years to complete -- alongside a new relationship rife with doubts, lies, and infidelity, new collaborations (in Geoff Keezer, Larry Goldings, Stu Mindeman, Josh Johnson, and Alan Ferber), travel abroad, endless questions, explorations, new compositions, risks… In the end, internalizing the idea that “A forest never grows, higher than the depths it knows // The warmth of sunlight comes and goes, but beauty only grows, When It Rains.”

“Thirsty Ghost” explores that honest, messy, beautiful place of hunger, thirst, wanting more – more connection, more transparency, a more whole hearted experience that occurs when we address the lessons that come with taking a deep look at adulthood. Through a series of new instrumental colors (including rhythm section, rhodes/organ, bass clarinet, alto sax, and trombone, percussion, and background vocals), some very special guests (Kurt Elling, Larry Goldings), new original material, contemporary covers (Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, Sam Smith), and jazz standards, my hope is that my audience will see their own whole hearted experiences reflected in this music – the light AND the dark. 

…
Track Listing (TBD):
1. Never Will I Marry (Frank Loesser)
2. Not The Only One (Sam Smith/James Napier)
3. Easy Love (Larry Goldings/Sara Gazarek)
4. I Believe When I Fall In Love (Stevie Wonder)
5. Riverman/River (Nick Drake/Sara Teasdale)
6. Cocoon (Bjork)
7. Spinning Round (Jessie Palter/Mike Jellick)
8. Jolene (Dolly Parton)
9. Gaslight District (Larry Goldings/Sara Gazarek)
10. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Hoagy Carmichael)
11. Lonely Hours (Hy Glaser)
12. Distant Storm/When It Rains (Brad Mehldau/Sara Gazarek)
13. I’m A Fool To Want You (Frank Sinatra/Jack Wolf)

PERSONNEL: 
Piano/Organ/Rhodes, Stu Mindeman
Bass, Alex Boneham
Drums, Christian Euman
Alto Sax, Josh Johnson
Trombone, Ido Meshulam
Bass Clarinet, Brian Walsh
Organ, Larry Goldings 
Special guest vocalists, Kurt Elling, 
Vocal Layering/Backgrounds: Erin Bentlage, Michael Mayo

CONT INFO:
Engineer: Helik Hadar 
Studio: Jim Henson Recording, Los Angleles, CA
Dates: August 20, 21, 22, 23
Mastering Engineer: Bernie Grundman, Los Angeles, CA 

If Relevant:
13k fans and 12k followers on Facebook
13.7k followers on Twitter
332k monthly listeners on Spotify
2k mailing list

01 The Lonely Hours

Pieces of Jade

My Foolish Heart: Rehearsal Tape with Bill Evans and Scott LaFaro (1960)

Paul Vanston Sound Of Music Medley

This weeks improv for Jam of the Week: El Pueblo Unido, composed by Sergio Ortega

El Pueblo Unido - a Farsta-style improv

JIM SNIDERO - Live t the Deer Head Inn
Savant Records SCD 2193
Jim Snidero, alto saxophone
Orrin Evans, piano
Peter Washington, bass
Joe Farnsworth, drums

As with many professions, it was a difficult thing to be a jazz musician during the pandemic year of 2020, but alto saxophonist Jim Snidero found himself in a unique situation: he was able to assemble a quartet for a feasible, safe, limited-audience gig at Pennsylvania's famed Deer Head Inn.  Snidero and his colleagues relished the chance to commune with listeners, and one another, on the bandstand again at long last. Live at the Deer Head Inn is the result, and as Snidero remarks in the liner notes, “It just felt like the perfect opportunity to cut through the fog of this damn pandemic and mark this moment in time.” The energy and excitement are palpable on this, as Snidero rallies his players and the audience in an exuberant set of what he calls “comfort music,” beginning with a trenchant take on Charlie Parker's “Now's the Time” (with Bird's daughter, Kim Parker, in attendance to hear it). The depth of swing and interplay is evident in every measure, and Snidero's sound and phrasing reveal a disposition of his own, guided by a unique melodic and harmonic concept — qualities that have earned him recognition in the Downbeat and JazzTimes Critics Polls.

Live at the Deerr Head Inn

Bye Bye Blackbird

Jim Snidero - Bye Bye Blackbird - From LIVE AT THE DEER HEAD INN

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"The David Baker Lick" Farsta-style based improv

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