Cool improvisation.....relaxing and strangely  compelling!

@user-939206597: So glad you dug this one, Robert. One of my personal improv favs! Cheers, man! :D

Very nice touch in this Jazz Blues Gary..keep it going!

This was the first thing to come out of the opening improvisational set at the Light House Pub on Saturna Island on December 16th 2015. 😎 
As I let my fingers do the talkin', I was using my Kawai ES7 digital concert piano.

So.... here's a taste of what can emerge 'out of the blue' when my Muse just wants to come out and play!  😉

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2015
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2015

Azjio

Tonight a JazZBlues Piano Improv w Bass n Drums took form out of a little musical meme that's been rolling round my soul for years. It's loosely based on an abstraction of a musical idea that we've all heard in various popular Songs that are  part of what i'd call the vocabulary of 'The Blues'.  

In any case...  i  Hope you enJoy it as much as i did as it Flowed through these 10 Little Fingers. :)

~ Gary


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(P)2016 Gary Courtland-Miles

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I present for you my version of the wonderful Bill Evans track 
"We Will Meet Again" from the same titled album released in 1979.

Written by Bill Evans

Enjoy XXXX

We Will Meet Again

Johannes Heinen - Coco

Trag-me a cabeça de Maria Bonita

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“Someone to Watch Over Me” was composed by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin in 1926. It is considered a key work in the Great American Songbook. It has been performed and recorded by countless artists including: Chet Baker, Billie Holiday, Lena Horn, Frank Sinatra, Linda Ronstadt, Willie Nelson, Ella Fitzgerald, Keith Jarrett, and Ben Webster to name but a few. It is one of the most loved of all the Gershwin standards.



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“When You Wish upon a Star” was composed by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington for Walt Disney’s adaptation of Pinocchio. In 1940 “When You Wish Upon a Star” won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The American Film Institute ranked “When You Wish Upon A Star” seventh in their 100 Greatest Songs in Film History.

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“It Might as Well Be Spring” was composed by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for the film State Fair, for which it won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1945. It has become one of America’s most beloved songs. The song has been recorded by countless artists including versions by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Bill Evans, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis and Sarah Vaughan.

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The music was composed by Victor Young and Ned Washington. The song was introduced in the 1949 film of the same name. It has been recorded by many great artists including, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Astrud Gilberto, Mel Tormé, Oscar Peterson, Billy Eckstine, Bill Evans, and Keith Jarrett.

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My Foolish Heart

There's no doubt about it, Music animates my Soul, and as an enthusiastic student of Life and a passionate Improvisational Pianist &  Composer,  as far as I'm concerned,  our lives would be impoverished without it ! :)  Composing is all about 'Sharing the Joy, Passion and Angst' we experience in Life, as well as connecting up with Musicians and 'Creatives' worldwide. This makes it even more wonderful!  That willingness to engage in whatever way makes SC an ever-expanding Movable Feast that nourishes and inspires on so many levels. 

Music Communicates the Emotional and Informational Content and Context of Heart, Mind, Spirit, and Soul. And 'Letting it Flow' is 'Where Its At' as I hear it!  

Over the past few years since becoming part of the SoundCloud Family, my 'Joy in and Passion for' Creative Musical Expression has increased exponentially as has my appreciation of all the wonderfully passionate Musicians and Creatives worldwide who have devoted themselves to Letting It Take Form! 

Here's a bit of a bio, if anyone is interested.  

Somehow, my MUSE got my attention at a tender age. About the time I was completing my Royal Conservatory training. 

My memory being poorer than most, I began improvising in the passages I had forgotten. And while the audience seemed unaware, my teacher chastised me indulgently, saying, "it appears I have a budding composer on my hands"!  And thus began my Odyssey into the wonderful Vibrational world of Sound!:-) In-deed, I have been an ardent, attentive and appreciative acolyte of my Muse ever since. 

During the early 1970s I had the pleasure and honour of a three year friendship and Master Class with the then Octogenarian Composer Manoah Leide-Tedesco , one of Tone Poem giant Richard Strauss` favorite pupils and friend of Maurice Ravel and other 20th century composers such as Stravinsky (whose music he helped popularize). Since then, whether Improvising, listening, studying composition or devoting myself wholly to the visual arts for years at a time, I have been deeply aware that sharing my musical insights , teaching, and or mentoring young aficionados came with the territory!   I love it, although I am afraid that as my consciousness expands...that I know less and less each year! :-)  

The Tonal Oasis called SoundCloud is a fine and wondrous place in oh so many ways.  And with your support and appreciation, I de-Light to share my music with an ever widening audience. I call what i upload ' Sound-Seeds'.  Most of these 'bed tracks' call out to be fleshed out by passionate soloists who somehow Resonate with my Soundz and Ideas.  So please drop me a line, as i am most interested in letting them bear more fruit through collaboration, interpretation, re-mixing or use in other media.    

And on a personal Note, a Huge Thank-You to each and all who listen, inJoy, and Re-Post onwards what finds it's way thru me! :) Bless y'all.  It's my Joy to simply 'Let' the Creative Spirit find expression through this instrument of Body, Mind, and Heart!  I hope you will find some peace, joy, and rest, in at least some of my improvisations, compositions, or soundz. 

Insofar as playing, and composing  ... as you continue on in Your journey into  the infinite 'Cave of Wonders' we call Music, I wish you all the very best in all Your creative endeavours. 

So Be Kind to yourSelves and one another. Be Audacious, Ready to Play, and above all, share the Joy of being able to express whatever you're feeling. 

In-deed, may The Muse continue to 'Sing on and Play on' through each of us !   For this is one way this 'ol world is lifted up, and Changed for the better - note by note, and smile by smile .  

 Yes, may we simply Let our Creativity flow forth without concern for results.
                                   Peace

                                    Gary *+*

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