This week the recordings I play with awesome intros are:

-Nardis, by the 1980 version of the Bill Evans Trio, recorded shortly before Evans died.

-Jeanine by the Dave Young Terry Promane Octet out of Toronto.

-All The Things You Are, where I play a version that uses BOTH the Rachmaninoff inspired Charlie Parker intro and the original ‘verse’ introduction.

-East St. Louis Toodle-o by Duke Ellington with what was described as “the perfect mysterious sounding set-up, complete with cymbal crash, for Bubber Miley’s plunger mute entrance.

-A great ‘scat’ beginning of I Am What I Am by Veronica Swift.

-Steve Wallace’s extended bass intro on Fishers of Men by The David Braid Sextet.

In terms of extros:

-Cascades by Oliver Nelson, From Blues and the Abstract Truth.

-Aos Pes Da Cruz by Miles Davis and Gil Evans.

And with all of them I play the whole tune….not just the beginning and ending. That way you get an idea as to how the intro and/or extro ‘*fits* into the whole! As well as to enjoy some great music.