I was chatting with my Dad tonight and he mentioned he heard Skylark on the radio and thought it would be nice to learn.

I couldn't find it in my two fake books, which I am surprised. I thought it was a popular standard.

I started doing some research and hit on this album from Boz Scaggs, who I remember from the 70's ("Lido Shuffle", anyone?).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001J10RLG/ref=sr_1_album_12_rd?ie=UTF…

The interesting part of all of this was that I heard vibraphone in some of the songs. It was Mike Mainieri (vibes/marimba).

here is another version of my tune hade allasmaladic this time with guitar...

this is my arragement of billy joel´s just the way you are in 7/8 (most of the time) with my duo partner jan on guitar.still (like everything i post) far away from perfect.i hope this will change some holy day...

Hi everybody.
I was asked by one of our ex- students(Can Olgun), who's studying at the moment at Manhattan School of music, to be a guest on his new CD. Here's one of his tunes, calles "MS Traumwelt(translated, Dreamworld). The tune is harmonically interesting and has a fairly complicated solo section. I scratched in my version of the written changes, which I often do to make things easier for myself; for instance, instead of F-/C, I wrote Abmaj.7#11/C). Or, at B, I translated Bmaj.7 #5 as G7alt., because that's how I understood the harmonic movement to the next chord.

I was hanging online with barryk and I found used mussers for 4500 and 4800 dollars over at www.malletshop.com.

I couldn't believe that so I inquired why are they were so high priced. I thought I'd pass along the malletshop's answer:

I wonder what Nico thinks about all this.
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As member of Csaba Deseö Sextet
http://www.myspace.com/csabadeseo

I am working on "Somewhere In the Night" by Milton Raskin and Billy May. I first heard it on Cal Tjader's "Soul Sauce" album. See "Check This Out" link. I can't find the sheet music so I am trying to figure out the changes. I stopped listening the recordings and just played some chords that I thought sounded good with the melody. I don't know if I have the changes right or not. I'll work on that more another time. I put these chords into BIAB and started jamming with it. Spent a couple hours tonight. Had fun. Here is a snippet from my jamming and the backing track.

When I practice it takes me a good hour before I can really start to get somewhere. It seems like for me that that first hour doesn't really even count although i have to do it to get past everything else. Get past what? The day, the crap, the business, the other side of the brain stuff.

I think of that and I want to pass it on. I can't imagine I'm unique, most of us must have this buffer that we have to get past. It's probably important to find out where your buffer ends and make a note of it.

Recorded at Studio 202, Budapest, April 2008.
Practicing before our recording session.

Intro and improvisation

Recorded at a very loud - this is a hungarian characteristic... :)) -) club in Hungary, Bekescsaba, 2005 summer.
Akos Kertesz - drums
Marton Pfeff - bass