Jazz, Blues, and Beyond
Live shows include swinging standards, blues, boogie-woogie, bossa-nova, originals and more, as long as it makes you move to the music! :)
"Bluegrass Boogie-Woogie", an original tune by American Boogie-Woogie pianist, Caroline Dahl, performed at Jammin' Java in Vienna, VA for Key Women Tribute.
More tunes!
Laughing at Life, by Kansas City Five, a jazz ensemble with members from the Count Basie Orchestra in the late 1930s featuring trumpeter Buck Clayton, drummer Jo Jones, bassist Walter Page, rhythm guitarist Freddie Green and Eddie Durham's electric guitar, and later on Lester Young.
How Long Blues is one of the first blues tunes my teacher Caroline Dahl taught me, and here I am doing a vocal rendition and piano accompaniment, after listening to a Leroy Carr recording. Leroy Carr (1905-1935), an influential American blues singer, pianist, and composer of songs.
Yancey Special by Jimmy Yancey (1898-1951), a veteran blues and boogie-woogie pianist, influential on the younger Chicago players of the late thirties. Although he wrote and performed compositions in a variety of keys, he ended every tune in E flat.