February 10, 1953: Carl Stone - Five Sonalis, Three Birthday Tributes for 2024
The three birthday tributes are by 2Thirds, the duo of Sol Mogerman and Georges Dupuis - recorded over the last week.
This is my third (or fourth) annual tribute to Carl Stone on his birthday, though previously they’ve been limited to Facebook. In 2022, I felt confident enough in my newfound pianistic-ish abilities (I only started teaching myself in 2019) that I thought I could work in his Sonali and throw in a few licks of the only tune I’ve (still) bothered to learn - Happy Birthday (Copyright Expiry edition).
This time though, I got help from my 2Thirds partner, Sol Mogerman and I included all three improvisations, even though the first one is a bit messy - it had been six weeks since we had played and during that time I had spent more time on the substacks than on the keyboards.
But by the third variation, I thought we got something of an ongoing creation (I expect there will be more) quite well. I also included bits and pieces of Carl himself f…