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I play tunes on the simple-system wooden flute. I can also do other stuff...
My instrument is fully chromatic, though a little twitchy when you get into difficult keys, so you have to pick your battles a bit (simplicity is a virtue in Eflat). But it sounds great.
The tracks are from a recording I did last summer with two musicians from the UK; Mark Emerson, on viola, and Tim Harries, on bass. We're doing a bunch of tunes I've picked up here and there, as well as a few tunes Mark has dug up out of old Playford manuscripts. I'd managed to get a few weekends in with Mark over the last year to play around with the tunes, and Mark and Tim have played together for years, but this was the first time all three of us had been in a room together...
We decided to keep it simple; no arrangements, no tune sets, and do as few takes as possible.
Also, just for the record, while I plunder tunes from many different folk traditions, I don't really do a very good job of representing the actual playing style of those traditions. Especially the Swedish stuff.
The Cd is done! Available now at CD Baby (cdbaby.com/cd/goodjim) and itunes, where it is strangely (and, I hope, temporarily) filed under "singer/songwriter".
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