| Re: Standards and Originals
Your desire to form a new group willing to compose your own compositions soundz kool! I was in a Quartet/Quintet format for about 8/9 years doing mostly original music. At 1st we did not attract a healthy following.........this was due to playing only our tunes. Once we figured it out that we needed to balance our material with standards, and "reference" type repertoire. then we became more readily accepted and started to play in rooms that actually had an audience that was bigger than the bartender and the jukebox! Obvious guy, says learn the standards ala the "Real Book"
Keep us posted on how this develops
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