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[ Saturday, June 14, 2003 ]

Caravan Tablature

I originally set up this blog to organize my acoustic music playing and to make it available to fellow enthusiasts. But, I seem unable to resist more generalized ranting and screwing around with the thing

In fact, when I'm as busy as I have been, being a responsible adult, a quick rant here is about all I can manage. This last week has been so busy, I have hardly had a chance to read my email! But today, after work, I realized, whoa, I'm pretty much caught up!

So, this evening, in response to a whole bunch of requests, I have completed the tablature for the great Ellington tune, Caravan.

This tune was arranged for the 5-String banjo by genius, Bill Keith. It is my opinion that you can pretty much count on one hand the truly great musicians in the world. In fact, the other day, I was listening to Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter on the piano, and I thought "wow, coool, WHO wrote that???" I discovered it was the great John Williams, and I felt oddly better, secure in the knowledge that not just anyone is producing greatness.

Anyway, Ellington was obviously one of the very greatest, and for banjo enthusiasts, there is no one more musical than Bill Keith.

So here is my own banjo rendition of Keith's arrangement of Caravan => Caravan.mp3

And for you banjo players, the tab is here on my tab page => Caravan Tablature

Enjoy it!

For everyone else, if you play the piano, or one of your kids does, then buy the sheet music for Hedwig's Theme and play it. You've just gotta love it