Piano Musing: Leonard with the Limp

Another recording from the archives: “Leonard with the Limp,” improvised on May 26, 2007.

That guy Leonard, down by the corner. Ratty clothes. Always making quips. Funny guy. Has a limp. He’s not a beggar; he just… holds court. He’s not a bum, seems he has someplace to go at night. But the next day, back at the corner, joking around… I guess he’s just part of the neighborhood.

I’m realizing that these musings ended up in the backlog because they kind of fell through the cracks. Sometimes piano musings don’t take off at all, to the point they aren’t even a piece. These aren’t those.

See, I occasionally come up with musings that are some of my favorites: An Elusive Sweetness, Phoenix Grace, Last Message… the upcoming Locomotive Memories and New Brownstone… I love when that happens, but they have the unfortunate side effect of me getting more self-critical of other improvs, like these backlogged ones, until my output slows to a crawl. You can see how that is completely against the point of all this.

So I’m working through it, catching up with the backlog, ready to do some more playing!

Listen to Leonard with the Limp (5/26/07 #3).

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