Soliloquy II - Nick D'Amico

Soliloquy-II
Original music and arrangement by Nicola Marcello D'Amico

This is an impromptu, introspective moment that happened at the piano just a month before this recording was completed. It was a melody that just came from a bit of a lonesome mood and the haunting motif which emerged unexpectedly turned into a latin-jazz performance. I didn't have the time to call a session for bass & drums and so I decided to play all the parts. It does really change moods dramatically but that's the mood I was in and it seemed to have to just come out of me in that way. I returned to the misty ballad at the end. I let the mood dictate the subtle changes in tempo and the melody just wrote itself. Sometimes I wonder where the music comes from. The piano is a 6'8" Steinway which belonged to my father in law, Alfred S. Burt. It does give me cause for reverence since I know that all his great Christmas carols were first played on these keys. It's the Mecca of pianos to me and sometimes it feels like he's really listening.