Fine jazzy stuff.

Dieter

A lovely performance, very enjoyable. The time you spent on it paid off

Wow!
This is brilliantly tasteful. Cloughie, this is master-class stuff. You turn the cascading scales into musical licks. What a pleasure.

JH

Lovely !

Beautiful song and perfectly played Brian! What an accomplishment to have such a classic jazz song in your fingers. Great submission!

OMGosh Cooughie!
Buttery smooth!
Heartmeltingly delicious!!!

You’ve chosen one of my all time favorite songs!
I’ve sung this a’cappella many, many times because I couldn’t find anyone to play this timeless jazzy work.

I WONDER??? Would you be at all interested in a collaboration on this sometime?
You play – I’ll sing. ??????? Please DM?

Swooning,
Marie :o)

A wonderful performance. I just love that ‘lounge lizard sound – this is the kind of thing I like to listen to when I just want to chill out in the morning with my coffee. I really enjoy jazz but I have never really understood how the chord progressions work and you certainly had that to perfection here. Impressed that you can play to the chord changes so well.

Late night/Early morning, smokey Jazz club, just the last dregs of tired customers and the Barman saying, “Final call for alcohol” – oh yeah, loved the feel of this one, Cloughie 👍🎶😎

This is so cool, Cloughie. I want to grab a scotch, sit down at a bar and listen to you hours and hours. Your playing is so smooth and tasteful. You play no chords at all, but you can hear them all out. Nevertheless, thank you for writing them down for us. This was great!

Really enjoyed this one, Cloughie. Beautifully played with smooth classy phrasing. Your time was well spent.

James

Classy! That was smooth playing. Thanks for outlining what you did with this (chord wise). I like the way you think about this (seeing the chord shapes as you play. Cheers. Pap

Brian, you took me back to 1987 my friend! I was working at a Jazz restaurant in Pittsburgh, PA called The Lounge. (Between college and dental school to pay for dental school – LOL). And great jazz acts would come in for dinner and play a set! I got to see George Benson and Stanley Jordan play as I was serving yummy food to the peeps! Great use of the 4 note scale pattern in you amazing jazz playing! Well done! Bob

Absolutely fabulous.
You are quite the jazzman.
Loved it.

AndréM

The smoothest, softest, the most lovely sound, Brian!

You have really taken up a few notches with your playing lately! The lounge lizard percussion was there just in time to support this incredibly well done project, so soothing and sweet! Just a perfect platform for some 4-note scale patterns and you sure took advantage of that! Some of them were so fast I tried not to blink! 😉
Man, you should be proud! This is top shelf music, played beautifully! 🎶🎶

That was simply beautiful, Brian. 👏🏽
Pro-level jazz playing!! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 thanks for giving us the chord structure. I really enjoyed listening. Hammergeil!

Such nice soft jazz Cloughie. I can see you in the lounge circuit pretty soon.

Nice one Brian, love that chord sequence, not boring at all. That really is proper lounge lizard stuff, a real crowd pleaser. And you’ve managed to get a nice jazzy sound out of your Tele, something I’ve never been able to achieve.

Chilled with beautiful timing! Very nice!

Classy playing there Brian, your work with this has paid off , some lovely sounding chords in this one , beautiful jazz piece and you still managed to worked in the four note sequence , I think Marie’s vocal on top of this would be a winner .
Very well played I enjoyed it! Has to be one of your best 👌

Martin

This was so tasteful. I’ve played that song once or twice, but never studied it to have it at the level you seem to have gotten it. Might need to add it to my rotation. Really nice chord outlining and tone.

Think I completely missed the 4 note patterns, I just got lost in the music listening your playing. Very accomplished and melodic.

Well if you are going to break the challenge rules, this is the way! 😉. Man, what a wonderful rendition of this standard Brian. Great tone from your Tele and great rich on those lines. Top notch!

Lovely jazzy vibe! Very smooth, Well played!

Very nice! Enjpyed watching u play it!

That was awesome playing very stylish. Thank you for that.

Hi Cloughie, I love “The Nearness of You” and I recall hearing Jack Ruch play it a while ago. You did a great job with it. Nice tone and feel, and worked around the melody nicely. Some really nice improv over those chords. I really enjoyed listening.

Wow. Congrats on such GREAT and very cool rendition Brian. I love that jazz style and your playing captured the feeling and vibe so well. I’m already obsessing. Thanks for sharing that. Tom