Hard bop IJG

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Got an email yesterday from someone asking to use this tune (aka “The Pickings Were Slim”) in a video for his job. My answer: of course! And thanks!

Never officially released, “Pickings” is an outtake from the sessions for our first album, Hardcore. I later included an unmixed version of it in our bootleg-for-the-fans release, Industrialjazzwerke, vol. 1. (This particular take of the tune, alas, can never actually be mixed, because the original master has been lost.)

Oh, the irony! “Pickings” is one of the prettiest small group pieces I ever wrote, and sometimes I am still bummed that, in the limited studio time we had, we didn’t get a performance that justified putting it on the first record. Ah, well. Maybe we’ll return to it someday.

Personnel: Evan Francis (flute), Mike Dodge (tenor sax), Aaron Kohen (bass), Drew Hemwall (drums), Durkin (piano, composition).

[photo credit: JasonRogersFooDogGiraffeBee]

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