Piano Dan
Dan Wielunski chronicles his musical exploits
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April 7, 2009
Is this the first Cole Porter song on Piano Dan? That seems like an oversight.
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April 6, 2009
This song title could have used an editor.
This was recorded immediately after the fast version of I'm Old Fashioned I posted the other day. You can hear me sort of slow myself down before I settle on a tempo and start the song.
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April 5, 2009
Amy penciled in the words to this song in my fake book back last century, and they have been preserved through countless xeroxes in every binder I've put together over the past five years or so.
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April 5, 2009
This could be my theme song.
My blazing fast tempo indicates that this was recorded on a Saturday. Maybe I'll post a "normal" version so you can compare.
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April 5, 2009
This tune is one of my favorites, and I haven't been able to find it in any fake book. So I get full arranger credit here.
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April 2, 2009
The dress code has changed for pianists at Nordstrom--no more jacket & tie. I'll have to post a picture of my fabulous new look.
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April 1, 2009
Retirement beckons: I'm heading to the University of Chicago for graduate school in financial mathematics! Look for the new website "Mathematician Dan" in which I will post a new differential equation every day. (Just kidding. Sort of.)
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Today at Nordstrom, a woman asked me the following question:
"Is that canoodling?"
She evidently meant this in some ...
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February 2, 2009
Not the same version I posted accidentally a few days ago. This is from a wedding I played on January 17th.
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January 28, 2009
This is humiliating. Not only did I upload the wrong song, but NOBODY NOTICED! Come on, people!
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January 27, 2009
For some reason I have it in my head that Colleen knows this song. Is this true?
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January 25, 2009
So, I took a whole week off with the inauguration and a grad school interview. Hope you're still listening!
"Summertime" is certainly my most popular song. I play it almost every day, and get compliments every time. On multiple occasions customers have booked me for a party immediately upon hearing this. Yet my arrangement is exactly the sort of treatment that my own mother often rails against: she believes the song ...
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January 17, 2009
Here's a Miles Davis Quintet number that ought to get played more. Go buy "E.S.P." today.
Is it poor blogging etiquette to change the post date and time so I can continue to pretend I'm putting up a new song each day?
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January 15, 2009
Sorry I fell a little behind this week. This is one of my favorite Duke Ellington tunes. I learned it from Art Tatum.
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January 14, 2009
I will totally cop to having learned this one from the Manhattan Transfer, back in my junior high school show choir days. Remember them?
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January 14, 2009
Karen was in the store yesterday listening, so my playing was unusually inspired. Right?
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January 12, 2009
This is a Horace Silver tune which we did a big-band arrangement of in high school.
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