Practice Sessions

A timeless song written by Rogers and Hart. Solo, trumpet and piano ￼- covered by Janis Joplin and Diana Krall to name a couple. 

Lyrics:

Sit there and count your fingers
What can you do?
Old girl, you're through
Sit there, count your little fingers
Unhappy little girl blue
Sit there and count the raindrops
Falling on you
It's time, you knew
All you can ever count on
Are the raindrops
That fall on little girl blue
Won't you just sit there
Count the little raindrops
Falling on you
'Cause it's time, you knew
All you can ever count on
Are the raindrops
That fall on little girl blue
No use, old girl
You might as well surrender
'Cause your hopes are getting slender and slender
Why won't somebody send a tender blue boy
To cheer up little girl blue

By Rodgers Richard / Hart Lorenz
Piano arrangement and thanks to Bob MAcKenzie

Little Girl Blue — Trumpet & piano Instrumental

This is actually my girl playing saxophone, not me.  And I am playing Korg Radias.  We were practicing for a later live show with some friends.

20240811 Practice Session Oxygen

Premiere mouture pour cette animation que l'on peut encore admirer ici : https://www.instagram.com/vaskange/reel/ChuFLtMDZhB/?locale=en_EN&hl=en

Endless Robot Story

cum lumine

Silesian Beskids I

"Above all birds, the hummingbird gives me the feeling of the mystery and the wonder of life." - Gladys Taber

A short improvisation inspired by our first visiting hummingbird of the season. ☺️

The Hummingbird

✨ Silk and Iron ✨
by Alexandru Sorin Ciobanu Al Rufei
Dedicated to my ballet students

In a world where grace is born from discipline, and strength is hidden behind every delicate step, "Silk and Iron*"was inspired by the silent poetry of my ballerina students and the beauty of a timeless collaboration with a gifted ballet teacher.

This piece is a tribute to the invisible dialogue between music and dance — between the softness of silk and the resilience of iron.
It flows like fabric through winter air, echoing the passion, fragility, and determination that define the soul of every dancer.

Let yourself be carried by this musical reverie — where each note becomes a step, each silence a breath, and each phrase a pirouette through memory and dream.




Silk and Iron

Following the somber opening of the Pandemic Suite, this hymn of hope begins to rise. Echoing Mendelssohn’s chorale from Elijah— "Wer bis an das Ende beharrt", engl: “He that shall endure to the end”— the brass instruments proclaim a steadfast call to persevere through the weight of troubled times.

Pandemic Suite – 02. Hymnus

I'm going to start doing some live looping performances on TEOP1 so this is a random practice session that is kind of Jam Band / Scat / Funk.  There is a 4-track on the TEOP1, so I can start out with drums or scat and then hit a key to end the loop, then just keep playing live and kind of overdub onto the other 3 tracks, and then also add in breaks by holding on one of the tracks while playing a B section.  I just live improvised the bass loop and then improvised the organ and keys as I went.  Random mood today, sorry to my dubstep and ambient fans :) This one is weird.

Bow Meow

127 - Little Soul

Dream Maker (2025)

Piano Concerto No.3 (5th movement) Op.36

For reasons unknown but time will tell...
Multi-instrumentalist, all types of music, all types of methods.
Occasional collaborations with other artists.
Sometimes I post the sheet music if it's piano.
Lately, my favorite instrument is a TE OP-1 Field keyboard.

20240811 Practice Session Oxygen

NOSTRUMUVA

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