Bye Bye Blackbird

[Mark Kleinhaut]

"Bye Bye Blackbird"(1926) is such a simple song, which may be why we can find ourselves endlessly toying with variations and pushing out our limits of improvisation to get a nearly free-form state, yet the tune still holds. A couple of day ago I portaled into one of those zones where no matter what I played- this tune kept resurfacing. As I would follow any leads back into the song the open road of improvisation would once again inevitably take me back out, again and again, tracking a wide circumference of sounds and textures for hour after hour; always playing this song, yet always moving well beyond what I'd already played. Now, coming up to my studio to record this (and condense it to five minutes) is merely a musical description of what happened the day before. A recollection, if you will, to the best that I can recall it. And telling you what this video is about is yet further removed, a description of a description I wish you could have really been there, and I know some of you already are, because the only reality is finding it for yourself.

[Mark Kleinhaut]

Is this section of the forum “the songs” the best place to post these? I post under improvisation when my video is a non-tune comprovisation, but I’ve never been sure if there was something definitive in these categories.