"JAZZ SALAD" is an ongoing project transforming earlier pieces to wind quintet format.

There are three so far, originally published in 2022.

I just made new versions of those three, and sketches for an additional 10 or so more are on the way – gotta have enough vegetables to make a proper salad!

The three are ...

Funky cheese
... has already been published in several forms, with several titles, including Wimpy talk
(and I can’t for the life of me remember the logic behind that title, but there was one) recorded as such on my first CD, “RUMBANGO“ the tune was re-titled funky cheese for publication in the “Jazz salad“ volume published by Piano Pronto…

Walnut waltz
... is based on Pretty Bird, an unpublished tune written for a short-lived group featuring our dearly departed drummer friend Michael Alarcon.…

Tomato Tango
... started life as one of a set of dance pieces recorded for salsa dance teacher Solomon Rivera’s instructional video “Salsa Sizzle” in Feb 2001. The original title was “Tengo“ (a play on “tango”)
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