I love this old Hoagy Carmichael song, I always feel an emotional buzz from its simple and direct lyrics wherever and whenever I play it. Right now, it has a special meaning and so it's time for a new version, time to dust off the bass clarinet and make a quartet arrangement. 

Dave McKeown online

The Nearness Of You, Dave McKeown (for Hannah)

I am a working full-time musician, teaching, performing, composing, recording and arranging, and my gigs in the last few years have included jazz combo, big band jazz, folk, Irish traditional, rock, soul, latin, klezmer, funk, orchestral, chamber, minimal techno, musical theatre and more, so, safe to say, I’ll have a go at anything. 

I'm a firm believer in demolishing boundaries between genres, cultures, languages and ultimately people, and Soundcloud is a terrific place where all this can happen.

Just relaxing and listening in my separate profile for reposting, without confusing my own main profile at http://www.soundcloud.com/megsmusicjourney ! Please don't forget to visit me there too, as I journey along in creating my own styles of music. I will also keep adding tracks in this 'megs-repost' profile as, and when I can. Please don't feel hurt if you're not here, as I probably haven't heard you yet, or you're already liked on my main profile, and there is so much wonderful talent up here on SC to keep up with. I also have such broad tastes and the calibre of music here is amazing! So much to keep up with; so little time! Send me a message if you'd like me to listen to your track as well and I will try to respond and be here as much as possible, without confusing myself between logging in and out of my main music profile and this one, I will see how it goes, doh! hehe :) ..... I look forward to hearing more and more in this wonderful community! :D