St James Infirmary, transcription, as played by Hank Jones

Folk Music Journal, 2003

Classic Harmonica Blues , 2012

From Gary Vorwald, “Several years ago, Sue Cifaldi and John Benoit analyzed the known fife manuscripts from the Rev War period and made a list of the most common tunes. I expanded on their work, using all known fife sources as well as music manuscripts by American officers. This type of study is heavily influenced by the sources chosen, and since the sample size is small, can be swayed depending on which sources are included in the study. With that said, my list of the top tunes is quite similar to the one compiled by Sue Cifaldi and Benoit. I would like to do a similar study for British sources, but that list will likely be heavily biased based on the numerous fife tutors. Unlike the American sources, which are all manuscripts, the British sources are mostly printed. I am considering using two manuscripts (Ensign Thomas Molyneaux, 6th Regt c. 1788 and Fifer John Buttrey, 34th Regt, c. 1802) but these are both later than the Rev War period, However, they may provide insight as to what may have actually been played.”

A band that helped to fund the Bethany Home for Crippled Children in Kinver during its 13 year existence.

5 choruses of jazz blues playing, transcribed and analyzed. Blues, bop, riffs, permutations, and pianistic phrases abound. The solo is presented one measure at a time, in-depth. Key of G blues. BE was not know for his blues, but he sure could have been had he kept to this track.

My first instrument was the piano. When I was in grammar school, I was given lessons from a teacher who lived just around the corner. About the time I was ready for junior high, a Gibson-playing Texan moved in next door, taught me a few chords, and let me play along with him on his old learner’s guitar. In the eighth-grade I started on baritone in band class, then switched to trombone through my high school years. I started college as a piano major, but changed to a pre-ministerial curriculum in liberal arts including classical Greek. Music became my avocation. Sometime in the 1980s I took up the tuba—I already knew the Bb fingering from playing the baritone in junior high—and organized a brass quintet to play at various seminary functions. Eventually I became a regular member of the University City Summer Concert Band, which did me the honor of playing my arrangement of “Precious Lord, Take My Hand” in the summer of 2015.

Self published, 2023

Title pages, scores & parts of Deathward by Jan Steele & John Lyle Donaghy as performed on the Community Library LP "Distant Saxophones" by Jan Steele & Janet Sherbourne and available from Bandcamp.

A Cole Porter Companion, 2016