Eugene,
I just saw your backing tracks. Thanks for sharing! Theyāll give us something else to add to our practice routines. 
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Sure thing! I hope you find them useful!
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Wow! Thanks very much @eugene! Love reading the details and am sure many others will benefit from the conversations too! Recently I have had a bit of struggle with time for the keys and this time around, I am more prepared and focused on the things that I really like to learn. PianoGroove, our amazing instructors are my BIG-time inspirations along with the members in here.
You have motivated me with your response and so very happy for your achievements too! Indeed having a supportive family around you really does help, I do agree 
Thank you for the enlightening details! Itās the start of 2021 and I donāt want to miss out on the wonderful and superb lessons here 
Initially I LOVE the BLUES, with no understanding why hahaā¦ am just soooo glad I am learning so much from this site.
Please do keep us posted, we love listening to your improvs!
and Yay HUGE thanks for the tracks you shared with us! yipeeeee 
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Spent this weekend recording a few songs (such a learning tool to see how far I have come and what there ALWAYS is yet to work on. Iāve improved my TIMEā¦ which is critical. Most importantly HAVING FUN!!!
https://youtu.be/fTZi5aTLmcA. Bluesette
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- thanks for sharing and hope you and Kirk are keeping well!Nice interpretation. Cool! 
Lori,
You guys are sounding great! I was wondering what youād been up to. Please keep sharing.
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Hi @LoriNelson I love this tune! (Bluesette) Your improvisation around 0:45 to 1:10 is where it really starts to take off. I know how hard it is to leave the āsafetyā of the melody and leap off into the unknown but ISTM that thatās where the real action and pleasure in jazz is to be found. Thanks for posting!
Really lovely playing @LoriNelson and you much improve 
Yeah !! as said Kirk at the end of bluesette !!!
thanks Pierrot, I can feel the difference in my playing this year, Kirk helped me with one of the very most important things TIME !!! laying back and not pushing that beat; but being able to grab a new tune and work out the left hand rootless voicings on the chords that came from Pianogroove, thanks Hayden!!!
Eugene, somehow I missed this when you put it up! Nice blues solo! All that practice is paying off!
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Thanks George. Iām spending more time on improv these days. I realized that having a good command of the left hand, specifically being able to play shells without thinking, is one of the key aspects of playing cohesive solos.
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Really enjoyed MoonGlow - @LoriNelson
love the sound of the upright bass too
GReat Duo 
Thanks for sharing!
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Nice done !!!
Dont know if you record yourself with a metronome or not . but you keep time going really steady bravo . You seems playing more as a comping with lot of rootless and theres really missing the bass line often . It sound really as if you have record yourself hearing a backtrack that were missing in the recording you share . But really great tempo keeping and nice solo. Maybe some pedaling could have help giving a more complete sound . Maybe adding some reverb in the recording will be a good idea, the sound is really dry. But really impressive version ,with so much chord voicings going with such ease and keeping the groove ā¦ 
Yeah about hearing our recording often a bit hard , be kind with yourself great job
Thanks for sharing !!
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I had a fun jam session with a clarinet player and rhythm guitar player, I got two decent videos out of it. my last two piano lessons were focused on comping and the use of upper structures (on the minor chords I have stack of 4ths in LH off the root with RH major triad off the b3, and on major chords the stack of 4ths is off the maj 3 with RH major triad off the V. ) I got some compliments from my piano teacher on the comping and note /phrase choices, my solos are still not swinging as much as they someday will,
but here we are:
https://vimeo.com/544237226/68f5410a21 In your Own Sweet Way
https://vimeo.com/544142085/be7be7b76d Iāll Close my eyes
thanks to you all for being a piano family to each other and to me !!
if you want a lead sheet on these let me know. fun tunes
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Loriā¦those are awesome! I listened with my eyes closed and tapped with my foot. Both were so relaxing. Great job!
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Cool Lori !! thanks to share ā¦ always so sweet to share music
the only things that bother me was the exposure of the theme on both tune , the clarinet dont interplay in a good way with your melody . It kill the sweetness of those melodies . I would rather have more pleasure to hear you or him playing the melody alone , or interplaying in a much more musical way . But you are begining your trio so great to hear you together anyway , and after the theme the songs are really cool . Bravo !!!
Thanks for sharing your voicing work. stacks 4 sound modern and interesting '" So what sound"
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Good to see you back, Lori and to hear what great progress youāre making in your playing. Some nice tunes.
Thanks for sharing.
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Thought I would share this little vid: I hired this local gypsy jazz swing band āRanger & the Rearrangersā to play at a garden party in my back yard, about 28 vaccinated neighbors came. I got to sit in and play four tunes with them (Bluesette, Iāll close my eyes, In Your Own Sweet way, and Triste). It was super fun, only got one video.
This is Triste, There are some odd random contrary sounds, between me & the guitar. 
āaudienceā was all mingling and chatting, so no stress.
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