Recorded during a "Studio Sessions" workshop with Jennifer Scott on keys, Rene Worst on bass, and engineer Bill Buckingham on the board, this original tune is making its debut. Enjoy! "Make You Stay" is © Sam Dulmage 2017.

Make You Stay (featuring Jennifer Scott & Rene Worst)

Practicing playing piano in different keys. This is week one: the key of C. Naturally I had to start if off with a little "C Jam Blues"

Key of C: a little piano improvisation

Practising playing piano in different keys; the last couple weeks I've been playing in F. The pounding flavour of this one is slightly inspired by seeing The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer recently.

Blues improv in F

The third in a series of amateur improvisations. Bb treated me very differently; the blues is almost absent here, but makes its presence known in one passage.

Improv in Bb

My first with vocals! Exploring the key of Eb I hit a snag, which was that I really just wanted to work on this one song. I didn't work my drills that hard or do that much improv these last couple weeks, but I got under the hood with this and got a half decent version despite a couple fumbly spots and an audio glitch or two.

The first two choruses are a straight recital of Tim Richards's arrangement of "How Long Blues" from his amazing book "Improvising Blues Piano", which he based on Leroy Carr's original and on Jimmy Yancey's versions. Then I go into the vocal with a short improv break. Enjoy!