for any two or more players. basically, they're songs with a melody, a countermelody, a bass line, and suggested harmonies.

kind of tricky, but do-able.

I got a gig once from my student's dad to play for his holiday party at the historic Giando on the Water (che mafioso!) for a bunch of anesthesiologists of various faiths; he happened to be Jewish and wanted something klezmeresque, if not just straight-up klezmer. So I gathered together three-fourths of this fine group, two of whom I know from this other fine group (and long since then, I started this fine activity with the third guy), who brought some klezmer tunes they knew, some original tunes they wrote for the first aforementioned fine group, and I wrote this little collection of pseudo-klezmerishesque-folksy-whatnot for the same occasion. We didn't perform all of the tunes and I was, to my sadness and shame, reminded of how much difficulty I still have with tonal improvisation, but thankfully, it's gotten better since then!

indeterminate time because of opportunities for improvisation.

2004.

score.

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