For your listening convenience, here are all of the full demo versions of the charts featured in this video, and new to this website for Fall 2010.  For full information about each chart, though, please browse or search the catalog for the entry you're interested in.

Singing in the Rain/Umbrella

It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday

Zemabia

I'm Hip

Radiance

Man in the Mirror

M.J.

King of Pop

Higher Ground

Lorem Ipsum

Lifespan of a Fly

Camel Back Blues

Spooky

I Like the Sunrise

I Thought About You

My Broken Heart

Silver Bells

Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing (2010 Rewrite)

Virtual Insanity (2010 Rewrite)

Fly Me to the Moon (new demo on 2007 Rewrite) 

New plan.  I've added a twitter widget to this website to present my most recent Twitter posts, and I'll be much more active on that than I've been in this site's main blog, so there will be something interesting and new to see each time you visit (presumably!).  I'll still use the blog for major updates or posts, though.  

Summer mode is fairly diverse for me, because of the variety of the things I wind up doing, in my freelance-itude.  I'll likely continue to live-tweet my arranging updates under the hashtag #arranginglog, for those interested in how my process works.  I have something like 12 vocal jazz commissions and a marching band show to write this summer, and I may squeeze in a big band chart as well (and, just imagine it...some non-commissioned writing!), and I'll be spending two weeks at the Monterey Jazz Fest Summer camp, two weeks in Japan, a weekend in LA with Julia, a weekend at Mount Shasta for some gigs, and who knows what else...so Twitter will be the way to go.  Of course, I hope you'll follow me, too, but I'm even happier if you want to come back to this page to check in!

I'm back on the path toward having all of my catalog ready with Part Tracks by the start of the next school year (for my purposes, that's August 10th, when I do my big new charts promotion).  I got three more sets done last night:  Home, So Nice and Singing in the Rain/Umbrella.  I've got some time today to knock out a few more, so we'll see how many I can get done.  The current list of Part-Tracks-having tunes is:

Over twenty new vocal jazz arrangements and a few jazz ensemble charts will be added to the Kerry Marsh Vocal Jazz Catalog on Thursday, August 5th, just in time for back-to-school for the fall semester (tough to imagine right now, I know!).  I've hinted at a May new charts promotion, and then, more recently, a June 1st promotion, but I've decided to prioritize getting every element in line for the new school year before revealing all the exciting new stuff for the first time.  I'm aiming to have Part Tracks made for every chart in the catalog, brand new demos and some long-needed rewrites done on selected older charts and a new vocal jazz resources and materials section, all to be unveiled at once.  I don't want my loyal customers to grow weary of the mass emails I send each year, so I want to keep them to a minimum, and this plan is a step in that direction.

Julia and I attended Pat Metheny's "Orchestrion" tour performance in Santa Cruz last night, and it was a hugely moving and significant experience for both of us.  The performance itself was emotional, well-paced, interesting and deeply, deeply musical.  Such an assessment would never really be surprising for a Metheny performance except that, on this tour, he's performing with an orchestra of robots.  The concept of what he's doing has been explained throughly elsewhere, so I won't go on about it here, but suffice to say that the performance was engaging from the first moments (during which he played a few beautiful solo guitar pieces) to the last (incorporating the highly technically complicated Orchestrion, which he could trigger live to sync with MIDI instructions from his guitar or cue preset passages and "scenes" using an array of pedals). 

It's hard to say that the highlight of the evening wasn't the music, but the opportunity for Julia and me to speak backstage with Pat after the concert (for about 30 minutes!) was a life experience neither my wife nor I will ever forget.  Here's the obligatory shot with the jazz superstar...

There will be much to say about this encounter later, I think, but we'll leave it this much for now.  Pat is a great guy, and he's generously complimentary of the two of us, which is one of those "I could die now" things, honestly.  His music has been such a huge influence over my writing and singing for the last 20 years, it's just hard to imagine where I'd be or what I'd be doing without that influence.  Julia, I know, would say as much for herself, too.