Tonight, Dennis, Xiao Xiao, Dorian, Claxton, and I met at Sid-Pac for the first rehearsal of "High and Dry." By the end of the rehearsal, we had another piece as well.
I had originally showed up to play in Autumn Leaves, but after briefly messing around with that, the rest of the group decided to start High and Dry. Dorian hadn't listed violin in his original arrangement for this piece, but after listening to them play a while I was tempted to join. I liked the groove. I asked Dorian, and he was like, sure yeah, hop on in. Today was basically Xiao Xiao figuring out the chords on the piano, and the rest of us listening to the youtube video and improvising along with it. Since we got started late and Dennis had to leave to play a concert, we're going to have to get together again to really hash things out.
High and Dry:
At the end of rehearsal, Xiao Xiao started playing Ravel's Toccata on piano, and Dorian started playing drums along with it. It sounded really cool, pretty jazzy - the drums gave the Toccata a toe-tapping/head-bobbing quality it doesn't usually have. Then Xiao Xiao vamped parts of the Toccata, and the rest of us joined in playing along. It was quite spontaneous, and it sounded good. We're probably going to roll this into a real piece for the concert. This will be a piece that takes after what Donal does with Bach.
Ravel Toccata:
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