The tune Out of this World by Harold Arlen has been on my mind a lot recently– I’ve been listening to John Coltrane’s recording of it on the album Coltrane, then it came up in […]
Category: Tune of the moment
Tune of the moment: Feet First
I didn’t intend for the “tune of the moment” to be an all Steve Swallow feature, but what the hell, I’m just playing his stuff a lot these days. Like a lot of his tunes, […]
Tune of the moment: Misterioso
Thelonious Monk’s Misterioso is a strangely beguiling little tune: It’s a slow blues, with a melody of running even 8th notes. That doesn’t sound hard. Except somewhere in the playing of it, it always goes […]
Tune of the moment: Eiderdown
Eiderdown is a great tune by Steve Swallow that deserves to be played a lot more, and has been coming up a bunch lately in sessions and in my listening. The lead sheet is available […]