<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Mark A. Galang]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://markgalang.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Mark A. Galang]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://markgalang.wordpress.com/author/markgalang/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Explorations Into Jazz]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>I love listening to jazz. I also happen to love playing it as well (at the very least I try to). In another effort to prostitute myself to cyberspace as a musician a.k.a. shameless self promotion, here are some recordings I did while attending Gary Burton&#8217;s Jazz Improvisation course via Coursera. These early 2013 recordings are my (futile) attempts at improvising over jazz standards using mostly piano and/or guitar plus a melodica on the Chick Corea/Return to Forever classic &#8220;500 Miles High&#8221;:</p>
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<p>I hope that you (whoever you are and wherever you might be) enjoyed the sort of jazz crap I&#8217;ve been trying to spew out from my innermost being (other than my own original works).</p>
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