43 Short Piano Improvisations

I was forced to take piano lessons for one tortuous year when I was seven, but I was so terrified of my teacher, I could not learn to read music. Nine years later, I embarked on a new relationship with the piano, a relationship without written-down music or a teacher. I am now sixty and have played the piano earnestly for forty-five years, improvising and composing intuitively. A number of these pieces first appeared as chapter transitions in the audio book versions of my novels Under the Table Books and Ruby & Spear, while others were created expressly for this album.

Especial thanks to Max Greenstreet for encouraging me to make this collection, Peter Temple for his invaluable assistance, my wife Marcia Sloane for her ongoing support of my explorations, and to Robert Smith, Mindy Toomay, David Jouris, Robin Chin, John Grimes, and Dick Mead, all of whom asked me to play for them more than once.

Sample Clips

1. If You Will
2. Company
3. Simple Song (Blue)
4. No One Knows
5. Spaces
6. Whatever For
7. On the Edge
8. Missing You
9. Steps
10. Tenderly
11. Morning Prayer
12. Not So Sure
13. Tenderly Too
14. If You Would Call Me
15. Eva’s Waltz
16. Simple Song (Sweet)
17. Here Somewhere
18. Trouble
19. Sorrow
20. Rise and Fall
21. Questions
22. Simple Song (Shy)
23. What’s Up?
24. Bill Evans
25. Train of Thought
26. Come On Now
27. Mary
28. Grandfather
29. Where You Were
30. Forgotten Impulses
31. Wedding Prayer
32. Rain
33. Darling
34. Marconi
35. Told You
36. Tenderly Free
37. You Me
38. Anita Anita
39. Reaching Out
40. One Fell Swoop
41. Dawn
42. Broke My Heart
43. What You Do

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