Towards the end of this year's Northeast fest Leslie Mixon and Claudia and I were working on an arrangement of The Gallery that was totally transcendent. What voices these guys have! Anyway, we didn't get to do it because of time constraints, but hey, there's always next year!
I can still hear them singing the chorus. Together, they are something quite amazing. (Not to say they are not also amazing alone!) Which is also to say, it's never to soon to start preparing tunes. It's a year-round thing! I am getting close to learning 'Blonde in the Bleachers' .Anyone want to sing some of that? (Original key starts in C, with the first chord a Dm9 or some such warm chord she liked so much) I also tried out Jericho the other day. This song is entirely built around those piano chords where Joni plays very simple major or minor triads in the right hand but then counters it, often with a second, in the left, creating a totally new chord with very complex tonalities, and without getting her fingers twisted in a knot (analogous to the guitar tunings). ChuckE
