About four years ago, I was playing for a few University of Connecticut functions, in venues like The Aqua Turf Club, in Plantsville, CT. This used to be a yearly gig for me. They would also book places like the Marriott, in Hartford, CT. Playing for these banquets was kind of tricky. Finding a good volume that would not be too loud, while maintaining that “live” feel was a challenge. Also, maintaining that “background music” volume meant that at times I was struggling to hear myself. This would at times become rather frustrating and a temptation to not accept any other receptions. My other challenge was finding appropriate music for the banquets. After playing strictly religious music for many years, mostly in Churches, I really didn’t have a proper collection of backing arrangements.
At first, I played most of the inspirational music that I had readily available, and it was well received; however, it somehow felt like the music was out of place. So slowly I started to make the arrangements that would become the Quicksand CD. The song that I’m posting below, The Mirror, is a bit of an accidental song. It was initially meant as backing music for a vocal track, but necessity called for it to be a flute solo. As usual I’m playing all of the instruments on this track, as I do on all of the tracks I record.
If you would like to play-along to this song you can click this link to open the solo sheet music> The Mirror.pdf …BTW. This stuff works great with saxophone too!
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Harlem Nocturne is a favorite jazz standard for many players. It is so much fun to play, and flutists have been asking for the sheet music to some of the pieces that I have put up on Youtube. I will start with this one. Click this link to print or save the flute part, as played in the track below. Have fun!