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Here is a collection of my music that includes improvs, jazz standards, plus psalms set to music.

For me these sound best when listened to with a good pair of headphones in that the music can get a bit thick and opaque and headphones help cut through some of that opaqueness of sound, and even better  play it through loud speakers and headphones which gives it an even richer sound

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That was my brother, David Wilson.

Sadly, he passed away many years ago at a rather young age from cancer.

One can readily see (and here) that he had much more musical talent than me, but we had many a discussion on how to play jazz music and one might see his influence on my home spun tunes here as well.

He was ahead of his time back in the 70's when he made these in regard to the revival of vintage jazz where he created his orchestra in Atlanta and played to enthusiastic crowds.

My one contribution to his orchestra is that I had bought and upright bass that I some time after failing to learn to play it, myself, I gave it to him, which in turn he gave to Allen, his bass player.

Their tenor sax player was a practicing dentist who played the sax on the side.

Their drummer and the rhythm guitarist, Lewis and Wayne, were childhood friends who lived in our neighborhood just a mile south of Brentwood Tennessee, which as a sleepy hamlet back in the early 70's and nothing like it is today.

And David played the lead guitar. David and Wayne did the arrangements as well.

Later on he added some additional musicians such as a trumpet player and a second female vocalist, Cynthia, who he later married and had three daughters, Savannah, Sarah, and Serena.

At that time I was getting my engineering in Electrical Engineering in Knoxville, Tennessee so I think I only heard the orchestra play live once in a trip we made down to Atlanta to visit him.

I have a old cassette that has additional tunes but doubt that it is still playable.

In regard to to the song Mood Indigo, Wayne changed his name to Ben Wayne, not liking his real last name and the other members of the band that did not know Wayne until joining the band suspecting that to be the case had a joke that where they said, you ain't Ben Wayne making a twist to the lyric you ain't been blue.

A wow, I miss David! But I am so glad that my sister in law of my other brother found this and sent me the link!

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Dave Wilson Orchestra - Demo
1) Crazy People, 2) The Breeze, 3) I Ain't Got Nobody, 4) A Little on the Lonely Side, 5) We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye, 6) Sentimental Gentleman from GA., 7) Mad About Him, 8) East of the Sun, 9) Gloomy Sunday, 10) Mean Woman, 11) Moon Indigo, 12) Moonglow

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Dave Wilson Orchestra - Demo1) Crazy People, 2) The Breeze, 3) I Ain't Got Nobody, 4) A Little on the Lonely Side, 5) We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye, 6) Sentimental Gentleman from GA., 7) Mad About Him, 8) East of the Sun, 9) Gloomy Sunday, 10) Mean Woman, 11) Moon Indigo, 12) Moonglow

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When my daughter was little I used to tell her Nithy Stories, where Nithy was an Ornithomimous dinosaur.

Here I experimented with making some (crude) animation, but even that was a ton of work!

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Though they may have gotten it from earth... or maybe the other way around!

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Here is an experiment I made on making animation, albeit rather low frame rate animation.

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Alphabetized

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I got the basic MIDI file from Sheet Music Singer's site, here, (and check that out in that he has tons of sheet music on that site) and I used Band in a Box to add the other parts.

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Sort of the same goes for music where it seems everything sometimes all comes together and works then one can never again quite replicate that magical moment!

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Really! I promise!

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Uh, that is to one gets to know her!

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And maybe I need to sing another song as well on the things I am glad you're not!

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... and that's a good thing at that!

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Oh, so you're now just saying nothing at all, poor me!

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Never mind the saddle sores!

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As one can readily see on the sheet music cover here this song is from the classic Marx Brother's Movie Night at the Opera.

And one can here that here.

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But one might image the days can get pretty hot!

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Now Anything goes, but who knows someday soon everything might all be all gone... so enjoy it while it last!

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My, a lot of time has in deed gone by since I originally made this recording!

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BTW, I cut back the length of this here back a bit in this remix but it still runs way too long.

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A really nice song but so sad as well!

But really now, that guy obviously is not worth pining over!

BTW, I downloaded the piano part as a MIDI file, and it is a really fine piano part at that!

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A great jazz song (and performance of it) should take one someplace, and hopefully someplace good!

Here the place is New York.

The time is autumn.

And it is a good place... even if "is often mingled with pain".

BTW, the AI female voice is Audimee's Arabella.

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Here I tried using an Audimee AI voice just to see how that would work.

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This was was just a bit out of my upper vocal range but I didn't want to transpose it down to a lower key so I did my best to hit those high note.

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Ah, stems once again to the rescue for remixing old MP3 files!

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My mom and my dad before they died lived on a bayou on the Mississippi coast after my dad's retirement so this song brings back memories of visiting there.

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Colors \in jazz songs range from blue shadows to red sails in the sunset.

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Another Irvin Berlin classic.

BTW, the piano part here is from a MIDI'-ized old piano roll.

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A Latin version of the great jazz classic.

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And based on those recent terrible fires in LA maybe one might not always be so safe in LA, and maybe when faced with such threats as that it might be good to pray for real verses just pretending to pray.

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BTW, I am switching from MP3s to MP4s with cover art here.

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I can't remember where I got the MIDI piano part, but it is really good.

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Here in this version of an old jazz classic China meets Western Swing... Bob Wills Style.

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So might one think this to be some sort expression of blind love?

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I am a bit confused. Are we now dancing in the dark, on the cealing, or just needing to face the music and dance and should that dancing be cheek to cheek.?

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I made this a duet even though it doesn't totally work as a duet based on the story line.

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Another one of my oldie recordings from back in the day now spruced up a bit with my latest in sound recording technology.

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So is this walking dream like Laura, and is just a dream?

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It's not my fault!

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Its late at night at the Starlite Ballroom and most of the dancer have gone home, but the Midnight Dreamer's High Society Dance Band plays on!

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This is a duet with me.. but not me.

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Well, if not easy than maybe at least easier!

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Yet another one of my covers of a Gershwin tune and another oldie recording as well.

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Here is an arrangement that is trying to be a good one, but just can't quite get there.

It seems that maybe the same can be said about the sheet music cover as well!

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This song takes me way back to when I was a freshman in high school back in 1965 when I was playing 3rd trumpet in the Franklin High Band in Franklin, Tennessee and we played this song as we marched down the streets of Franklin for their rodeo parade me trying to read the small print of my 3rd trumpet sheet music affixed to my music lyre attached to my trumpet while trying to march in the heat where they were giving out salt pills to keep the band members from suffering heat exhaustion.

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And here is the great Patsy Cline version.

And here is the first recorded Bob Wills version.

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If it comes down to being spirited vs slick I prefer spirited any day!

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I might not be all that great of a jazz singer but one can see here that I am even worse of an opera singer.

But it was fun to give it a try!

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Here is my cover for this, only my version is not as spiffy.

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.. and I have loads of practice doing just that, rushing into things that only a fool would likely do given the choice!

Then again, one can often learn from one's mistakes, even it that might often entail learning the hard way!

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A nice sentiment!

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BTW, I have no idea what those are... but they must be tasty!

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Having lost the master this needs a full re recording in that this version has noticeable distortions

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BTW, to date my favorite Audimee AI female vocalist for these duets is Becky in that I think her voice best works with mine.

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Instead of belting out the vocal I tried singing this one quietly, just to see how it would sound!

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And, OK, I am not much of a dancer, so that ad lib at the end is not all that far off for me.

That said, just as I have no natural sing voice but had to teach myself how to sing, so maybe I need to learn to dance as well, at least as a way for me to get more exercise (which is sorely needed) and this here I found to be a great dance track to do that.

And how can one not dance to these 1920's gems!

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And here is the Patsy Kline version.

And here is an old Al Bowlly version.

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This is what a jazz song sounds like when I just can't quite get inspired but make it anyway.

That said, one might go here to hear a bit more inspired version by Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys

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BTW, I just heard this version here and that remined me that I hadn't yet uploaded my version.

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BTW, some versions a volt from above others say a bolt from above though the latter seems more correct to me.

BTW, I added an AI female track as well as the cover art.

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Looks like that piece of sheet music that is imaged here has seen a bit of use... but still is useful at that by providing an online source of that imagery.

BTW, to further create a sense of oldness I added the scratchy vinal record effects as well.

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I couldn't find the original sheet music cover for tis so I had to doctor up another number from the same show to make this one here so there might be some errors in the result.

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I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me

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I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me

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Also, I can't believe that anyone else but me is listening to my version of this here as well!

But here is the original Bing Crosby version.

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I Can't Believe that You're in Love with Me

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This for sure could do with a remix in that the vocal distorts at places.

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OK. I haven't had a steak dinner in ages but listening to this sort of makes me want to go have one.

At any rate this continues my dance theme here with a another song about dancing, though I am not seeing doing much dancing after just eating a steak dinner!

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If I had... better recording and mixing skills that is.

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This song is from the great (but sad) Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Carousel.

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I did a western Swing style for this version.

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And here is the Fat's Waller version.

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I did the band part last night (using Band in a Box) and the vocal this morning, and it seems to have turned out pretty nice, even if I say so myself.

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Once again I made this from a MIDI-ized piano roll.

BYW, I that was me on the trumpet (or cornet) and if it sounds OK that is because it probably took me a zillion takes and retakes to even get that!

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Also, I made a duet version but I think I like the solo version better.

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The idea here is to add a bit of musical magic that takes one somewhere and somewhere good at that!.

And yes, Ahhhh, "to be young on a night like this"... well one can be young at heart even not bodily so!

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Though on further reflection I am now thinking she ain't... and maybe for good reason at that!

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And hear Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy sing this here.

Not only was the key too high for me but this requires a better singer than me to give it justice... but I did my best anyway!

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Here is another great Cole Porter number

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Its your basic fixer upper!

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Stems are proving to be great for sprucing up old recordings!

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OK, my original version of this dragged on way too long and that dream was beginning to look more like a nightmare... so I cut the length down in this version!

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A great jazz song takes one someplace, and hopefully some place good, even where one can face the music... and dance!

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I never really quite understood just what the lyrics of this song were about but it sounds nice!

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Ha, I made this new version of this in that I forgot I had made an older one. But I like hos one much better!

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... and hopefully also lovely to listen to as well!

And here one can hear and see that original loveliness!

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This is a new genre, Sophisticated Western Swing, i.e. Orchestral Strings plus Pedal Steel Guitar... and I like it!

A lot of technology went into this in I just discovered Play Score 2 where it scans Sheet Music PDFs and converts them to MIDI files or XML... pretty cool!

A subtitle to this tune might be Honeymoon Bliss!

And at the rate they seem to be going, they soon will be a mamma and a papa!

And here is the original.

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And here is the version in The Cocoanuts which featured quite an extensive dance scene plus the vocal.

I added an AI Voice plus did a remix.

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Moonglow (with Vocal) Plus Love Theme from Picnic

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Moonglow (with Vocal) Plus Love Theme from Picnic

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Three greats come together here, a great song and a great movie based on a great play!

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I reverted this to an earlier version plus a remix using Stems.

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Its that time of the year again, Band in A Box 2024 is out!

And I just downloaded it and here is my first tune using it!

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The female voice (Becky) is AI generated.

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Speaking of favorite things, I would have to add this great showtune to my list!

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... or was it Mildred?

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OK, first off that really nice Guitar and bass and drum part I downloaded as a MIDI file from some cite I now don't remember.

That said I added a bit more percussion.

Next, yes , as it seems I keep getting older, even if that is starting to get a bit old, my voice is getting a bit scratchy... can't help that, but at least I am still alive and reasonably well, so no complaining there!

Lastly I did the vocal in essentially one take, go me!

Finally, I am pronouncing get more like git but that seems more like a jazz singer might pronounce it anyway.

Finally, I was able top knock this off before breakfast, once again, go me!

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Here I added an AI female voice (Becky) and made this more of a novelty song.

OK, the goal here in this song is to put a smile on one's face, nice work if one can get it!

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A great Cole Porter tune... though I may have gotten some of the Night and Days vs Day and Nights backwards... oh well!

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Another duet courtesy of Audimee with Lily being the AI voice.

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The mix here was hurting what otherwise could be a decent version of this tune but I have long lost the master so there is no way to remix it now where I have better technology to bring to bear.

That said using AI powered stems has helped improve the mix!

Pity.