This was a good studio session. The point of my work is to play as much as I can to perfect what I do. I am not only very proud of my work but I feel like this is what I need to share with the world in order to bring to the listener a sense of peace and maybe some happiness in some way or form. I really do not know. I am posting this on 4/17/2026 and cannot seem to position myself in the world of performing for the public. I do try with trying to sell my skill set with my Ocean Joe’s Piano card which has the scan code for access to my Bandcamp site and to my sample page. I visit bars and other venues, present myself, leave my card with the boss person and on my Bandcamp site I can see that “someone”, “sometimes” pings in but they do not respond or follow through to engage me. I seem to have hit a brick wall with an un-scalable face. Leaves me thinking that I am fooling myself. How far do I go to keep believing in myself, believing in my music. I guess I go here, on 4/10/26 with one of my last studio sessions recorded and saved for the Empty.
The hot links will take you to the sheet music page of that tune.
File below is the 01.Opening.Riff…a hello to the stale world of reality from the flow of Joey O.
The second ‘entry’ is a gem.02.For.Bill.Evans….the progressions here were created spontaneously and without a rehearsal…as of 4/17 I have not developed this but the segments suggest a unique sequence of changes. Named for the piano great Bill Evans only because I mention listening to him while at work. His style of play is so far above mine that anything named by me for him is a stretch but because this is new and represents how I can present an interior dialogue of my own, I can allow myself the reference. In the notes below, this is the 4. Invention tune, not yet named when I wrote the notes. Also included here as a Soul Note.
Third entry is an old song of mine, “If I Had a Dollar.” I’ve recently been revisiting this tune, which is refreshing since I do love it so.
Another Ocean Joe’s Piano creation…a practice version but not a bad version of “Take It Downtown Blues“.
The final song of the night is one written last year, one of the better tunes I’ve done because of the tight lyrics. Not a word wasted is the songwriter’s mantra and I think I carry that with pride in this little tune. “When Spring to Summer Falls.“
