Sometimes it’s fun just to play. Wander around aimlessly.

“Juoksentelisinkohan”. Yes, that is a word in finnish. It’s english translation is hilarious. I won’t spoil it. Try g00gl3, not translate.

So, LAZY JAKE is me playing around on a synthesizer and, you know, there’s some background stuff as well, in fact a whole song!

The keyboard part is somewhat jazzy, but I decided to put this in the RnB-category. After all, there’s the new jack swingish beat and everything.

Next week: No jazziness at all!

With this one, my influences were clear:

I was thinking of the Thelonius Monk composition “Evidence” from 1948, 1957, 1958, 1960 and 1964. (Personally I prefer the 1963 Japan version)

Fear not, nothing is being plagiarized here!

So, LOSE THE EVIDENCE, although more suitable title would be “Lose to Evidence”, ‘cos comparing these two works is like comparing the whole western literature to a big mac Dave bought last week. You can decide which is which.

Anyway, my piece also has melody with jerky rhythm, and a chord structure, which only little by little starts to make any sense.

Now that I do some rare and actual thinking… The Monk in Japan “Evidence” was probably among the very first videos I ever watched on uTub… Also Coltrane live… And Cecil Taylor in gray sweatpants playing some crazy-butt solo piano stuff…

Off to the internets!

There’s Spotlight Kid. It’s an English band. Apparently they play shoegaze music, which is like the funniest and most sincere musical genre word there is.

Then there’s The Spotlight Kid, a 1972 album by everone’s favourite captain, Captain Beefheart. It’s definitely not his most bestest album eva, but it isn’t his worst either, because our good Captain doesn’t have worst albums.

And I guess I should mention Spotlight Kid, Rainbow song from 1981. It’s a fun one. The main riff is a blast to play on the guitar. Hard on your thumb though.

Finally we got SPOTLIGHT KIDS, my humble contribution. Poppy-pop yeah.

Why using a title that’s already there?

Because it sounds fun, I like it and my tune there wanted to be called like that.