Been a long time gone, eh. Just fighting through RSI in my right arm’s inner elbow area. Hurts to play very long. I’m dealing with it, but it does make things more difficult. So, mostly gypsy style strumming is out of bounds right now. Not that I had it down all that much, but it does take more physical movement than what I can comfortably execute.
No worries, though, I play on doing what I can. Mostly, I think what I’m doing is more ‘Hot Swing’ than real ‘Gypsy Jazz’ anyhow. So, that’s what I’m talking about here. Songs that come from the style of Louis Armstrong, Eddie Lang, and Django Reinhardt. That’s the kind of music that interests me most.
Most of the tunes are from the Great American Songbook, but, naturally, this flows into the gypsy jazz style nicely too.
Currently, working on ‘How High The Moon’, ‘Swing 42′, and ‘Cheek To Cheek’. Quite a collection of swinging tunes. More later…
