2 arrangements of mine, these are different older recordings of them from when I was maybe 35?
- Corcovado by Antonio Carlos Jobim
- Monk’s Mood by the man with the hats, Thelonious Monk
- Plus a pic of me and my bud Iza when we were maybe 20,
I composed an arrangement of Chopin’s Prelude #4 for the nylon string guitar and did it ever hit home. My neighbours at my apt. on Lisgar St. freaked when they heard the process and the result. I gave a copy to a busker friend in the Byward Market and another copy I threw into the fast waters of the St-Laurence Seaway at the Old Port of Montreal when ridding myself of worldly attachments high on a buddhist manual. So, anyways, the dude might of kept the copy. I tried to rewrite it but failed. I’ll sit down and do it again and succeed this time.
But this piece by Chopin most thoughtfully must of inspired Jobim’s How Insensitive. I play Prelude #4 it is heartwrenchingly beautiful.
Have any of you played it? Rojie? Have you keyed ‘er?

Ok. Cheers!!!
Nico
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