Here are the songs whose backing tracks I'd like to record at Flaming Hakama on 19 May, 2019 from 4-9pm.

alt.musica comes to Il Pirata the first friday of each month from March through May, 2017. Upcoming dates include Friday, April 6 and Friday, May 4. Check out the fb event page for details. Il Pirata is located at 2007 16th St., SF 94103 We are asking $20 cover to see the band   The music we'll perform is from our chamber orchestra repertoire, which includes a few new pieces for April, 2018. We are helping celebrate Nat "King" Cole's 99th birthday, by reintroducing two songs, now with string parts: Beautiful Moons Ago and It Only Happens Once.

Links to charts for our gig at Nick's Kitchen on Saturday, April 8. For some instruments, there are alternate parts (e.g. Piccolo vs. Flute) and for some instruments there are more than one chart that might be appropriate (e.g., Clave vs. Rhythm). Flute & Alto Flute Bluesy Jump Don't Wait For Me Alto Flute, Flute Presque Tire Sale In God's Country Self-Immolation Sixteen K Is A Lot Of Kim Stomping Ground-Piccolo Stomping Ground Windows English Horn Bluesy Jump Don't Wait For Me Presque Tire Sale In God's Country Self-Immolation Sixteen K Is A Lot Of Kim Stomping Ground Windows Bass Clarinet & Clarinet Bluesy Jump Bass Clarinet in Bb, Clarinet in Bb, Clarinet in A Don't Wait For Me Bass Clarinet in Bb, Clarinet in A Presque Tire Sale In…

Original Songs Here are notes on the songs we're playing, in chronological order of when each song emerged. Windows (1994) A fast, syncopated song in minor tonality that is floating, surfing and gymnastic. Originally recorded in Boston with the Qwaynetet for an unreleased album as Latin Jazz. Now Salsified with added montunos. Stomping Ground (1996) An anthem written during my first visit to San Francicso. Cascades between Latin Jazz and Swing, now Salsified with added montunos. Sixteen K Is A Lot Of Kim (1999) A Second Line romp, as commentary on the ascii file length of an intimate, transatlantic email. Written while on tour in Prague with the funk band Raw Deluxe. Presque Tire Sale in God's Country (1999) A Salsified ballad dedicated to the union of two dear friends. Originally recorded…

A Musical Journey Songs should speak for themselves. Yet, I would like to speak to the journey on which these songs have themselves been. I picked this material because I'm fond of it. Yet, it never quite found a place in the repertoire of my working ensembles. Some of it has been around as long as I've been composing! A first attempt to revisit it during 2008-10 was imagined as a setting to feature my clarinet playing, and writing for voice. Carl and Alicia are alumni from that project, whose instrumentation was a similar format of woodwind trio, rhythm section and vocalist, including flute, clarinet and bassoon. That project dissolved organically, but last summer the perfect storm occurred which motivated tonight's reimagining: meeting Glenda playing English Horn, acquiring a Bass…