Qool Marv Plays for Warren Buffet at HBO Documentary Premiere at MoMA NYC | Jan 19 2017

Qool Marv Plays for Warren Buffet at HBO Documentary Premiere at MoMA NYC | Jan 19 2017

Over The Rainbow - Red Garland
Moonlight Serenade - The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Wonderland By Night (Wunderland bei Nacht) - Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra
La Vie En Rose - Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra
Sentimental Journey - Doris Day with Les Brown and His Orchestra
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Limelight - Frank Chacksfield
Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
In a Sentimental Mood - Duke Ellington
Little Things Mean A Lot - Kitty Kallen
Oh! What It Seemed to Be - Frankie Carle
Stranger In Paradise - Eddie Calvert
Sunrise Serenade - The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Sail Along Silvery Moon [inst] - Billy Vaughn
You Send Me - Sam Cooke
All I Have to Do Is Dream - The Everly Brothers
The Best Is Yet To Come [feat. Count Basie And His Orchestra] - Frank Sinatra
Satin Doll - Ella Fitzgerald
Manhattan - Ella Fitzgerald
Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Henry Mancini
Sing, Sing, Sing - The Benny Goodman Orchestra
Come Fly With Me - Count Basie & His Orchestra
Come Fly With Me - Frank Sinatra
Happy Go Lucky Local - Duke Ellington
Memories Are Made of This - Dean Martin
Oh, I Got Plenty of Nothin' - Harry Belafonte
Personality - Johnny Mercer
Personality - Lloyd Price
Having A Party - Sam Cooke
My Guy - Mary Wells
The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles
Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Stevie Wonder
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
Get Ready - Ella Fitzgerald
I Get Around - The Beach Boys
All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
Little Darlin' - The Diamonds
I Got You - James Brown
You Never Can Tell - Chuck Berry
Don't Be Cruel - Bill Black's Combo
Rum And Coca-Cola - The Andrews Sisters
I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony) - The New Seekers
Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Somewhere over the Rainbow - Chet Baker
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard

Thank you HBO!

You can play this for your children and your great Grands (if you still got them). Grand grooves played to set the temperature to where life was warming up during Mr. Buffett’s coming-of-age years. I was in awe of and deeply respectful to all of the wise men and women at the party. They all represented one form or another of making it far while influencing wide.

Gigs like this, for me, are just as fun as any other. As a music addict, I get to feed that crave. As an open minded music addict, a set like this expands my horizons. Putting it all together live for everyone’s enjoyment is the thrill because I improvise – which means that I prepared a playlist of 300+ songs (47 in the set) and other than 1 song that I knew I’d play for sure, I chose each song based on what I’m seeing and feeling.

Perception, awareness, flexibility (because the pool of music that I had was so large that I could’ve done this party 5 times 5 different ways) sense of timing and willingness to take (thoughtful) risks (keeping in mind the idea that risks can reap rewards). I aim for impressed praise with the impression being that I put time and my mind into my aspect of the overall presentation.

The 1 song I knew I’d play, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, has been sung by Mr. Buffett himself and the song is featured in the documentary.

Peek into my brain processor to see how I found tone:

Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Over color
Somewhere over color
Via the colorful (creativity) in any person, I hear their heart
Heartfelt harmonies is like audible inner joy
I can see their smile when they sing
Instrumentalist’s imaginative intelligence color my insight with warmth
Togetherness
Somewhere over color
Spirit?
Somewhere Over the Rainbow

I love my job because I spend most of my time listening to and looking for the best in people. One way or another, I share what I compile and I feel like I’ve done a little good.

Enjoy!

Qool Marv

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