After I wrote this title, I reminded it was Bill EVANS wrote this tune....  The thing motivated me for practicing contrabass... I played Japanese songs and my own compositions as solo work for Youtube videos, but there are many other melodies that I  like ... One of my motivations for practicing the double bass was to play my favorite melodies  from around the world on this instrument .... As a first step, I played this tune. I like the overall sound and atmosphere of this tune, but at the same time, the harmony or mode or "progression" of this tune is very well done...one of the model tune for me. It is not like "So What" or Coltrane's "Impressions" where there is a simple and clear changement between A and B in the AABA form. When we think of this tune in units of 4 bars, we can see that there are small changement in each 2 bars. (It's a 10-measure tune, so there are two bars extras...) There is only one note changement (a tonal point of view). ...

  I wrote this tune for a picture in a exhibition in 2010. For the picture reminiscent of a port town. First of all, this tune was for duo with sax so the theme was played by sax. In this time I played solo version. I tried to making not only a groove with a percussive sound but also melodic solo. I think if I can make both of these things at the same time, this will open some new expression for contrabass. I got inspiration from not only "slap" of electric bass and Rockabilly thing. But also "ghost notes" of percussions. One of the points is the "unification of the difference in timbre" by the difference in the direction of vibration of the strings. I mixed some pizzicato technique like "standard" way and "slap" way, also I used thumb. For using thumb i did not slap like electric bass's because of timbre. I feel thumb "slap" makes "attack" but not "full body" sound. So this time I moved my thumb horizo...