Jazz

Today was Django Reinhardt's birthday, so I whipped up this little tune for fun (with a LOT of help from my Band-in-a-Box!) as a little tribute to the Master of acoustic jazz guitar. It's a great showcase of quickly and easily even the most music-illiterate people can create nice sounds with the right tools in hand. 
Enjoy!

Diggin' the Django

A sample of what can be done with music tools like Band-in-a-Box

Chacha Guiro

Get Up And Funkit Too

The Way You'll Feel Tonight

By David Snyder and Jon Healey

That Old Summer Wind
Came Back Just Like a Friend
You smelled like Chanel and Gin
Under palm trees in the Caribbean

And I’m walking around like Frankie
I got a rat pack as my best friend
And I’m leaning under a street light
Thinking about the way you’ll feel tonight

When I see you
In that skirt from Saks Fifth Avenue
Can’t stop thinking about
The way
You’ll feel tonight

A touch of skin
That feels like velvet
On Satin Sheets
And the Perfume in your hair
Reminds me
Some things just can’t be beat

Every light in the city
Made for two
I just can’t wait 
To get my arms around you

I won’t sing the blues
Or read the daily news
I have better things in sight
As I think about the way you’ll feel tonight

Well I long for those days when the Macy’s parade
Still had Ginger and Fed Astaire
And the wise guys were the good guys in skinny ties
And the smell of Lucky Strikes was in the air




But that old Summer Wind
Comes back just like a friend
You smell like Chanel and Gin
Under Palm trees in the Caribbean
And I’m walking around like Frankie
I got a Rat Pack as my best friend
And I’m leaning under a street light
Thinking about the way
You’ll feel
Tonight


All Words and Music copyright 2015 by David Snyder and Jon Healey


The Way You'll Feel Tonight

This is a Jazz instrumental where I get the chance to jam along with Jazz Great Oliver Gannon.  Contact PG Music too see how you can too. (Along with about 3,000 other fine players. ) Those who are wise will listen.  Track info: Oliver--left speaker.  David--right speaker.

Aftering listening to the tune, go to Wiki for more info on this Jazz great and his history. Don't click yet!!! :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Gannon

Hanging With Oliver

This is my "latin jazz" take on an old, icelandic lullaby. It's still widely known & used locally, but since it's virtually unknown anywhere else, I've edited a 'singing' preschool into the start of my version, to give listeners a sense of how it's usually done.
Be mindful that the volume at the start is _lower_ than the bulk of the song, so don't crank it up or you'll get a nasty shock when the instruments kick in.

Get Up And Funkit Too

TommyCole