A customer came into the shop and wanted to talk about lentils. So be it.

The sort of banalities that help one get through the day . . . the radio is playing music so I'm relying on conversation for inspiration . . .

They were playing something "different" on the radio; a Charles Mingus tune. So I played something "different" too.

impro for improfriday

In my late teens I was in a hard rock band and this was one of our songs. This recording is not the band but myself doing all the instruments and vocals. Our singer Kevin wrote the lyrics but I forgot some of the lines and adlibbed a bit of it…

Sung by Matthew Garey.

Matt composed the music for the original musical 1001 Nights (help--was that the title?) in 1974. The Kennedy Center play production class presented the musical as its summer project that year. Here Matt records a rehearsal tape.

Sung by Matthew Garey.

Reverberating church bells ringing through the thin, mountain air.

Singing, soulful, heartfelt, pop, R&B

Sung by Matthew Garey.

Matt wrote this song around 1973, when he was around 15 years old--he was a junior at Kennedy High School, in Granada Hills, CA.

Hand percussion, fretless bass and synth choir.

Matthew cowrote Eyes of a Child with Rick Jude. Performed by Garden of Joy, this is the theme song for the movie Into the West. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104522/