Yours portly released a new album earlier this month, Heptadic Structure.  It’s an exploration of pieces in 7/4, 7/8, and 7/16 time.  Each piece is twenty-one written measures, for a total of 147 measures across the seven pieces.  Also, 14+7=21.  Math is fun!

You can listen to and/or purchase the album at the following links:

• Bandcamp
• Amazon Music
• Apple Music
• YouTube
• YouTube Music

This week I’m featuring the fourth track from the album, “Jaunt.”  Jaunt is a duet for tenor saxophone and vibraphone, and it possesses a whimsically jaunty feel.

For the artwork for “Jaunt” I went with this whimsical little gnome smoking a pipe:

Happy Listening!

—TPP

Other Editions of Open Mic Adventures:

1. “Open Mic Adventures I: Oingo Boingo’s ‘Just Another Day’“
2. “Open Mic Adventures II: Billy Joel’s ‘Piano Man’“
3. “Open Mic Adventures III: Joanie Sommers’s ‘Johnny Get Angry’“
4. “Open Mic Adventures IV: KISS’s ‘I Still Love You’“
5. “Open Mic Adventures V: ‘There’s a Light (Over at the Frankenstein Place)’“
6. “Open Mic Adventures VI: Journey’s ‘Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’“
7. “Open Mic Adventures VII: ‘Suite: Judy Blue Eyes’“
8. “Open Mic Adventures VIII: Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘The Sound of Silence’“
9. “Open Mic Adventures IX: Journey’s ‘Faithfully’“
10. “Open Mic Adventures X: ‘Time Warp’“
11. “Open Mic Adventures XI: Spooktacular Supergroup Covers ‘Monster Mash’“
12. “Open Mic Adventures XII: ‘Ghostly’“
13. “Open Mic Adventures XIII: The Penguins’ ‘Earth Angel’“
14. “Open Mic Adventures XIV: ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’“
15. “Open Mic Adventures XV: ‘O Holy Night’“
16. “Open Mic Adventures XVI: ‘Please Come Home for Christmas’“
17. “Open Mic Adventures XVII: ‘L’il Divertimento in C major’“
18. “Open Mic Adventures XVIII: ‘Satiean Motion’“
19. “Open Mic Adventures XIX: ‘Two-Day Minuet for Left Hand’“
20. “Open Mic Adventures XX: ‘Sleepy Student’s Serenade’“
21. “Open Mic Adventures XXI: Styx’s ‘Come Sail Away’“
22. “Open Mic Adventures XXII: ‘Blessed Assurance’“
23. “Open Mic Adventures XXIII: ‘Gabbi’s Gavotte’“
24. “Open Mic Adventures XXIV: ‘Softly and Tenderly’“
25. “Open Mic Adventures XXV: ‘Venite, exultemus Domino’“
26. “Open Mic Adventures XXVI: ‘Sonatina’“
27. “Open Mic Adventures XXVII: ‘Heavenly Sunlight’“
28. “Open Mic Adventures XXVIII: ‘Song of the Bigfoot’”
29. “Open Mic Adventures XXIX: ‘Lavender’s Blue’“
30. “Open Mic Adventures XXX: ‘Chorale for a Sleepy Wednesday’“
31. “Open Mic Adventures XXXI: ‘Carousel’“
32. “Open Mic Adventures XXXII: Hymn Medley“
33. “Open Mic Adventures XXXIII: ‘Spore Song (Mushroom Dance)’“
34. “Open Mic Adventures XXXIV: ‘Chase’s Dilemma’“
35. “Open Mic Adventures XXXV: ‘The Rings of Saturn’“
36. “Open Mic Adventures XXXVI: ‘The Rings of Saturn’ LIVE!“
37. “Open Mic Adventures XXXVII: ‘Private Lessons (Goth Chick)’“
38. “Open Mic Adventures XXXVIII: ‘Quasi-Date’“
39. “Open Mic Adventures XXXIX: ‘(I’m in the) Business of Love)’“
40. “Open Mic Adventures XL: ‘Parada’“
41. “Open Mic Adventures XLI: ‘Serenade for a Sleepy Student No. 2’“
42. “Open Mic Adventures XLII: ‘1001 Arabian Nights’“
43. “Open Mic Adventures XLIII: ‘Greek Fair’“
44. “Open Mic Adventures XLIV: ‘Skeleton Dance No. 1’“
45. “Open Mic Adventures XLV: ‘Skeleton Dance No. 1’ – BASS“
46. “Open Mic Adventures XLVI: ‘Canon Event’“
47. “Open Mic Adventures XLVII: ‘Skeleton Dance No. 2’“
48. “Open Mic Adventures XLVIII: Sloppy ‘Hipster Girl Next Door’ Medley“
49. “Open Mic Adventures XLIX: ‘Lament of the Lizardman’“
50. “Open Mic Adventures L: ‘Bigfoot Boogie’“
51. “Open Mic Adventures LI: ‘Minuet for a New Moon’“
52. “Open Mic Adventures LII: ‘Andante in D major’“
53. “Open Mic Adventures LIII: ‘I Need Thee Every Hour’“
54. “Open Mic Adventures LIV: ‘”Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus’“
55. “Open Mic Adventures LV: ‘Orange Roll’“
56. “Open Mic Adventures LVI: ‘Firefly Dance’“
57. “Open Mic Adventures LVII: ‘Kartofelsalat’“
58. “Open Mic Adventures LVIII: ‘Listless Chorale’“
59. “Open Mic Adventures LIX: ‘Silent Night’“
60. “Open Mic Adventures LX: ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’“
61. “Open Mic Adventures LXI: ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’“
62. “Open Mic Adventures LXII: ‘FRANTIC!!’“
63. “Open Mic Adventures LXIII: ‘Snowfall’“
64. “Open Mic Adventures LXIV: ‘Uninspired Étude in E major’“
65. “Open Mic Adventures LXV: ‘Scribblings I: Post-Christmas Concert Scribbling’“
66. “Open Mic Adventures LXVI: ‘Ode Napoléon’“
67. “Open Mic Adventures LXVII: ‘Cook’s Brief Bourrée in E minor’“
68. “Open Mic Adventures LXVIII: ‘Triumphant Processional’“
69. “Open Mic Adventures LXIX: ‘Moody Noodling’“
70. “Open Mic Adventures LXX: ‘Epistemology’“
71. “Open Mic Adventures LXXI: ‘Three Chorales in Diminishing Length’“
72. “Open Mic Adventures LXXII: ‘Blue Mage’“
73. “Open Mic Adventures LXXIII: ‘Red Mage’“
74. “Open Mic Adventures LXXIV: ‘White Mage’“
75. “Open Mic Adventures LXXV: ‘Black Mage’“
76. “Open Mic Adventures LXXVI: ‘The Blind Prophet’“
77. “Open Mic Adventures LXXVII: ‘Robobop’“
78. “Open Mic Adventures LXXVIII: ‘Pink Princess’“
79. “Open Mic Adventures LXXIX: ‘Purple Prince’“
80. “Open Mic Adventures LXXX: ‘Yellow Knight’“
81. “Open Mic Adventures LXXXI: ‘Green Knight’“
82. “Open Mic Adventures LXXXII: ‘Brown Friar’“
83. “Open Mic Adventures LXXXIII: ‘Advanced Funkification’“
84. “Open Mic Adventures LXXXIV: ‘Funk Chorale (Hymn to Funk)’“
85. “Open Mic Adventures LXXXV: Steelheart’s ‘I’ll Never Let You Go’“
86. “Open Mic Adventures LXXXVI: ‘1001 Arabian Nights’ Redux“
87. “Open Mic Adventures LXXXVII: ‘Heptadic Structure’“
88. “Open Mic Adventures LXXXVIII: ‘Angularity’“
89. “Open Mic Adventures LXXXIX: ‘White Boy Summer’“
90. “Open Mic Adventures XC: ‘Balladic Processional’“
91. “Open Mic Adventures XCI: ‘Tu Me Manques’“