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10. For Carl. A two scale modal piece with an open structure. Carl Birrs is my drum student with whom I first got to try it with.
11. Eyes. I used to love to play the old standard “I Only Have Eyes For You.” But then I started playing with a free jazz group and came up with a moody piece inspired by the standard but clearly in a free vein.
12. South Bronx. A little rhumba piece to commemorate my youth in the south bronx and all my Cuban and Puerto Rican friends.
13. 1968 A poem written about relations between psychedelic images
14. Out of the Blue Surprise/ 4th Glass of Wine. Combining two pieces. The first is a 16 bar tune which uses the 3 blues chords in a non blues manner, hence the title. The second piece in 6/8 is based on how I remember my Grandmother singing a song at Passover, where the seder requires participants to drink 4 glasses of wine. I put them together to play with changing metre and polyrhythms.
15. John Cage Doesn’t Like Jazz, But he Oughta. A three part piece demonstrating why Cage doesn’t like jazz, but oughta.
    Guest vocal May Lee Jarvis

Guest vocalist: May Lee Jarvis, All songs composed by Bernie Koenig

All songs recorded by Erick Desgardins for Zygomatic Productions (2006), except for tracks 14 and 15 recorded by Darcy Corbett (2003). All tracks mastered by David Kerr and Erick Desjardins.

Cover photo by Wendy Saby, (2005) www.wendysaby.com