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HEY I AM GOING TO BE IN THE BIG APPLE at Otto's Shrunken Head  Picture of Me with my Kepasa Madeira and Kevin Crossett (Kepasa Ukuleles) at recent Ukulele Noir at Johnny D's Somerville MA (Click on Picture for more uke pictures)  MASTER CLASS UKULELE LESSONS how about an internet lesson using skype and your webcam? $20/hr lesson payment through paypal  $20 USD for an hour lesson payment through PayPal  contact me for details and discussion about your custom lessons. jazzukes@verizon.net or skype name markocchionero YOU NEED A CAPE VACATION (away from the cape - click on the image below for details)
Most of the songs that I've done recently have been Sinatra tunes
from the Columbia years. For more
contemporary recordings of the same songs I listen to Diana Krall.
I listen to a lot of Jazz. I take my piano voicings from Oscar Peterson, I like the style of Wes Montgomery (for my leads - the octaves), i like Charlie Mingus too.... My ukulele arrangements are my own, but the music book I use is The Real Jazz Standards Fake Book (Hal Leonard) C edition, because this has a lot of what they call songs from the "American Songbook". I play the songs in the key that is written in this book. I find that this is almost in my range. I do read music, studied it a bit as a kid and in college, I've played guitar, played rock guitar, and classical guitar, and piano, but recently the Ukulele has been the only voice that I listen too. Recently I've been playing with a fretless bass guitar. This is a new challenge. It has helped in my understanding of my arrangments. Best wishes and keep watching. see
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