Yours portly hasn’t had a chance to noodle out any more new saxophone compositions or to tinker with new digital compositions, so I’m digging up a little something I put together last year and waited until Sunday—the first day of summer—to upload.

I recorded this little cover of the jazz standard “Summertime” from the opera Porgy and Bess last summer when I was driving up to see then-Dr. Fiancée. On those long, boring drives, I would usually entertain myself by sending her goofy voice messages. These usually hit in the third and final hour of the drive, when I’d be dying to get out of the car and see my girl.

Such is the provenance of this cover, my own little rendition with some altered lyrics.

Here’s my impromptu cover of the jazz standard “Summertime,” recorded via the Voice Memo app on my iPhone, then edited in iMovie with whimsical doodles (and a picture of Murphy); there’s also a little model of Nugget, which was a cake topper on our wedding cake (we had a Murphy one made, too!):

There you have it! What do you think of my little cover, dear readers? More importantly, what do you think of the array of images in the video above? This chubby maestro wants to know!

Happy Tuesday!

—TPP