Pianoroll

I went on a trip to the Veneto, in Italy, and stayed in Vicenza and Venice. In Vicenza, my teacher, Jean Claude Jones, and I played at the Vicenza Jazz Festival. It went really well. We played a mixed program that included my tunes, a few standards, and four Gregorian chants that we arranged for jazz. This is one of the better shots taken during the sound check.

For an encore I played solo an Italian tune by Domenico Modugno called “Vecchio Frack.” Here is the original tune sung and played wonderfully by Modugno:

And this is my version:

The thing I say in Italian (Spero che riconosciate) means “I hope you recognize,” which I think they did, although I didn’t use enough hints of the tune in the solo. I did an intro based on a small part of the tune and then I went straight into the solo. After the solo I came back and played the great Modugno tune.