Easin’ It by Frank Foster
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Here’s a tune from my days as a jazz piano major at NIU. I used to be so nervous when we would start this tune, worried that I would never play it right, or that my time would be off, or whatever. But here it is years later, and I think it sounds great – especially for a kid just learning the idiom. I shouldn’t have worried so much back then.
I dig. (I love Easin’ It) Whole band sounds great.