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Blues For Jim was begun after watching several YouTube video performances by Jim Croce, a wonderful songwriter who died in an airplane crash in 1973, about two months after his biggest single, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", hit #1 on the American charts. A few other big hits of his were "Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)", "Time in a Bottle," and"I Got a Name."
I was sixteen when he died, and I used to play and sing lots of his songs, so his death hit me pretty hard. Fast forward thirty-seven years, and I happened to be watching some video performances of Croce and his musical partner Maury Muehleisen (who also died in the same plane crash) one day, amazed all over again at what great musicians they were, and lamenting their premature demise, and so I decided to try to express some of that in a tune.
What I wrote has no relationship to any of Croce's songs; I was just trying to express what I was feeling through my own musical language. And it doesn't use blues scales or chord progressions either... "Blues" in my title just refers to a mood.
I wrote this using Finale notation software, and this performance is just a recording of Finale playing that file.
I was sixteen when he died, and I used to play and sing lots of his songs, so his death hit me pretty hard. Fast forward thirty-seven years, and I happened to be watching some video performances of Croce and his musical partner Maury Muehleisen (who also died in the same plane crash) one day, amazed all over again at what great musicians they were, and lamenting their premature demise, and so I decided to try to express some of that in a tune.
What I wrote has no relationship to any of Croce's songs; I was just trying to express what I was feeling through my own musical language. And it doesn't use blues scales or chord progressions either... "Blues" in my title just refers to a mood.
I wrote this using Finale notation software, and this performance is just a recording of Finale playing that file.
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magnatone
CLARK!!!! what a THRILL to have something new from you - it's been a long time, and this is AWESOME! your piano chops are to die for, this is so complex yet entirely accessible, warm, moving and COOL!!!! (warm AND cool - got that??) please don't be a stranger around here!