Inspired by Ted's version, I started learning Serenata by Leroy Anderson. I couldn't find Serenata in any of the Real Books that I have so I listened to a few versions and decided to learn it from the Nat King Cole/George Shearing version.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AL06DO

I tried to get some of Nat's phrasing in the melody. I am having trouble getting all of the changes, so I lay out playing the accompaniment and just play melody. The Cole/Shearing arrangement also has a modulation for an instrumental section. In that section, I just play the melody in octaves.

Just kidding!!!

Did post this one yet?

i found a cool and fun thing to do which is a good lesson i think. on this video at about 4 minutes chick plays some blues licks which gary instantly repeats together with the audience singing. the blues is in Bb flat and he uses mostly the Bb blues scale on his licks. can you play all the phrases like gary on the fly just by hearing the once you heard them?

i tried and it was not easy and i failed on most of them when i tried the first time. to me it prooves i still can´t play what i can sing. singing like the audience is no problem for every of us i think :)

Here's a little something to get away from our TOTM for a minute!

I've been working on the 2013 workshop for about three hours now. It sucks doing all the administrative stuff or something like this, I want to shoot myself.

ONE IMPORTANT NOTE:

DUESSELDORF AIRPORT (WEEZE) IS ABOUT 1 HOUR AWAY. YOU MUST TAKE A BUS FROM THERE.

THE BEST AIRPORT IS DUESSLDORF (MAIN AIRPORT). ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE IS COLOGNE AIRPORT. YOU WOULD THEN COME TO DUSSELDORF BY TRAIN.

Email Matthias for any question: post@mallet-institute.com

Pretty funky stuff! Just watched a little bit of it. Looks cool.

Hello everyone and a happy new year. I hope you all doing well.
Thi is a solo on Doralice from a rehearsal in Athens.

Hope you like it!

thanks
Dimitris