LOL

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This really sweet guy has started hiring me for a bunch of little jazz/swing/dixieland jobs lately...so he texts me prior to upcoming gigs, and asks me if I know these super-standard songs that he wants to add to the repertoire...

He just sent me Bette Midler's version of Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy so I could study the changes.

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He just sent me Bette Midler's version of Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy so I could study the changes.

Those "diddelyada toots" can be deceiving....

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He is trying to add several different songs each time we play there, so the club owners don't keep hearing the same songs over and over again. This time, he wanted to play La Vie en Rose in C. I suggested pairing that tune with A Kiss to Build a Dream On in the same key at the same tempo. (His daughter is singing with the trio, making it a quartet. She's a good singer.) The two tunes made a good pairing, and went well.

We played a few other tunes that I've never played before, but have heard enough times. Even though it's in E-flat instrument and three plus one compensating, over the years I've gotten much better at winging tunes' chord changes on the tuba vs. the bass. (Duh. I have hardly played bass in thirty years.)

The drummer is a funny guy with a good personality. I think he's fairly recently retired from band directing. When I was playing a silly solo to the chord changes of some tune with a fairly fast tempo, I did a series of lip trills between two pitches dropping down up in the high range of that followed decending thirds in the chord changes. He made a wise crack about it quietly to me when the band leader was on the microphone announcing the next tune. I explained to the drummer that that's something that we tubists are taught to do in Rubank Advanced - Book I (on page 7).

[Three Valves]

That sounds like fun.

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