PART 2: My Attempts To Play Like Woody Over the past few months I have been studying Woody’s playing closely and deriving exercises to help me incorporate some of the features of his playing I admire the most into my own style. I feel I have made progress in this attempt even though there is still much for me to do. To help me chart my progress I have made some recordings of the tunes Will Never Be Another You’, Is ‘There ‘What This Thing Called Love’ and Case You Haven’t Heard’. The first set was recorded on the 12/3/10 ‘In and the second set on the 20/4/10, and both sets of recordings feature Aidan Shepherd on piano, Diccon Cooper on bass and Keith de Barra on drums. Also referred to is a recording of a showcase I did at Blackheath Halls on the 11/5/10 with the same band except for Rebecca Nash playing piano instead of Aidan Shepherd. The recordings can be found on the accompanying cd, which has the following tracklisting: Case You Haven’t Heard’ - 1st version (12/3/10) (Appendix 11) ‘In Will Never Be Another You’ 1st version (12/3/10) (Appendix 12) ‘There – Is This Thing Called Love’ 1st version (12/3/10) ‘What – Case You Haven’t Heard’ 2nd version (20/4/10) (Appendix 13) ‘In – Will Never Be Another You’ 2nd version (20/4/10) (Appendix 14) ‘There – Is This Thing Called Love’ 2nd version (20/4/10) ‘What – (11/5/10) ‘Mahjong’ (11/5/10) ‘LHC’ For Joe’ (11/5/10) ‘Mode
PART 2: My Attempts To Play Like Woody Over the past few months I have been studying Woody’s playing closely and deriving exercises to help me incorporate some of the features of his playing I admire the most into my own style. I feel I have made progress in this attempt even though there is still much for me to do. To help me chart my progress I have made some recordings of the tunes ‘There Will Never Be Another You’, ‘What Is This Thing Called Love’ and ‘In Case You Haven’t Heard’. The first set was recorded on the 12/3/10 and the second set on the 20/4/10, and both sets of recordings feature Aidan Shepherd on piano, Diccon Cooper on bass and Keith de Barra on drums. Also referred to is a recording of a showcase I did at Blackheath Halls on the 11/5/10 with the same band except for Rebecca Nash playing piano instead of Aidan Shepherd. The recordings can be found on the accompanying cd, which has the following tracklisting: ‘In Case You Haven’t Heard’ - 1st version (12/3/10) (Appendix 11) ‘There Will Never Be Another You’ – 1st version (12/3/10) (Appendix 12) ‘What Is This Thing Called Love’ – 1st version (12/3/10) ‘In Case You Haven’t Heard’ – 2nd version (20/4/10) (Appendix 13) ‘There Will Never Be Another You’ – 2nd version (20/4/10) (Appendix 14) ‘What Is This Thing Called Love’ – 2nd version (20/4/10) ‘Mahjong’ (11/5/10) ‘LHC’ (11/5/10) ‘Mode For Joe’ (11/5/10)
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