- David -
Flutist
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David has enjoyed playing music for over 60 years. From 1961 to 1962 he took Classical Trumpet Lessons with Alois Hruby former principle Trumpet for the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, in Cleveland, Ohio. A little later, from 1966 to 1968 he played Trumpet in the Midwood High School Symphony Orchestra, and was the principle Trumpet from 1967-1968, in Brooklyn, New York.
In the 1968 and 1969 football seasons he played trumpet in the Harvard University marching band in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Then, from 1972 to 1973 he learned how to play the Bamboo Flute on the shores of the Pacific Ocean in Gualala, California. In 1974 he returned to Cambridge and took Classical flute lessons at Harvard University. After his college graduation, from 1975-1976 he played flute in a folk trio, “Berkshire Green” in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In 1979 he took Classical Saxophone lessons at the University of Kentucky, Lexington and from 1979 to 1980 he played flute in “Lizarbo” a 7-piece Brazilian jazz band that played Happy hours every Friday at the Jefferson Davis Inn. Then, from 1981 to 1982 he studied Jazz Flute in a class with David Baker at Indiana University, Bloomington. In July, 1982 he got married to his wife Pepper and they moved to Charleston, South Carolina where they have lived ever since. From 1999 to 2000 he took jazz saxophone lessons with Robert Lewis, head of the jazz program at the College of Charleston, and then took jazz saxophone lessons with John Slate, (a former student of Stanley Turrentine, former sax player for Ray Charles and Manhattan Transfer, and former sax professor at Cornell University) from 2002 to 2006. |
From 2007 to 2008 he played sax and flute for “Mental Note” a 4-piece rock band, and played at the Music Farm and at Awendaw Green. Starting in 2015 he has been a flute player in Jazz duos with various guitarists including Chad Bond, Bryan Motte, Danny Slye, Philip Jackson, Lance Ard, and Grace McNally, in the Charleston area. During 2019 he also played in a classical flute trio, “Harbor Breeze”.
During Covid, in 2021, David played flute under the stage name “Dr. Got2Play” remotely on an Album “Different Worlds” containing 15 all original songs of various genres, some by him and some by Jasper Meyers “The Jazz Master” who also played several other instruments and produced the album in Chicago, Illinois. (available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Sound Cloud, etc.)
During Covid, in 2021, David played flute under the stage name “Dr. Got2Play” remotely on an Album “Different Worlds” containing 15 all original songs of various genres, some by him and some by Jasper Meyers “The Jazz Master” who also played several other instruments and produced the album in Chicago, Illinois. (available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Sound Cloud, etc.)
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Live Jam Session with LCP Guitarist, Philip
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David's Sample Song List
Note: This is not a comprehensive list. Many selections available upon request.
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BLUES
Birk’s Works
Blue Monk
Mr. PC
One For Daddy-O
Saint Louis Blues
BOSSA NOVA
Agua De Bebe
Black Orpheus
Blue Bossa
Corcovado
Desafinado
Dindi
Gentle Rain
Girl from Ipanema
How Insensitive
Meditation
The Night Has 1000 Eyes
Once I Loved
Wave
CLASSICAL
Air on a G String from Bach Orchestral Suite No. 3
Arioso from the Oboe introduction to Bach Cantata No. 156
Bouree from Bach Lute Suite No. 1
Sarabande from Bach Cello Suite No.1
Siciliano from Bach Flute Sonata No. 2
ETHNIC
Besame Mucho
Danny Boy
Hava Nagila
Sunrise Sunset
JAZZ
A Night in Tunisha
All of Me
All the Things You Are
Alone Together
Angel Eyes
As Time Goes By
Autumn Leaves
Beautiful Love
Bill Bailey
Blue Moon
Blue Skies
Body and Soul
Bye Bye Blackbird
Cheesecake
Cry Me a River
Days of Wine and Roses
East of the Sun
Easy to Love
Foggy Day
Forrest Flower
Flamingo
Fly Me to the Moon
Georgia
Ghost of a Chance
Green Dolphin Street
Have You Met Miss Jones
Honeysuckle Rose
How High the Moon
I’ll be seeing you
Indiana
It’s Only a Paper Moon
I’ve Got Rhythm
Just Friends
Just One of Those Things
Misty
Moon Glow
My Funny Valentine
My Little Suede Shoes
My One and Only Love
My Romance
Nature Boy
The Nearness of You
Night and Day
Now’s The Time
On the Sunny Side of the Street
Out of Nowhere
Prisoner of Love
Round Midnight
Saint Thomas
Satin Doll
September Song
Shadow of Your Smile
Smile
Song for My Father
Straight, No Chaser
Stella By Starlight
Sugar
Summertime
Sweet Georgia Brown
That’s All
There Is No Greater Love
There Will Never Be Another You
Time After Time
Up Jumped Spring
When Sunny Gets Blue
When the Saints Come Marching In
Yardbird Suite
Yesterdays
You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To
POP
Blackbird
Moon Dance
Moon River
My Blue Heaven
My Old Kentucky Home
Red Sails in the Sunset
Scarborough Fair
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Three Little Birds
What a Wonderful World
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