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A Nightingale Sang In Berkely Square

from The Music Of Don Thompson by Joel Quarrington

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A few years ago, Joel called me again and this time, he was asking me to write a piece for him to play at a concert in Rochester, New York.

He told me how, on a break from a rehearsal, he’d gone to sleep under the piano and was awakened by me playing it. I was playing “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square”, and as he was listening he was thinking that he’d like to play that song with me someday with those chords. I’d been playing with George Shearing and Mel Torme for a few years, and Nightingale was one of their show-stoppers, so I knew it really well.

The challenge for me, was to find a way to write it so it would be special for Joel. I thought that going into a Brazilian feel after the melody would work nicely with the chords, and I remembered that cadenza that John Coltrane played at the end of “I Want to Talk about You”, so I guess my arrangement was inspired by Mel Torme, John Coltrane and Tom Jobim.

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from The Music Of Don Thompson, released June 9, 2022
Joel Quarrington-Double Bass
Don Thompson-Piano and all arrangements

Produced by Roberto Occhipinti
Recorded at Modica Music Studio
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Jeff Wolpert
March 20/2022

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