THANK YOU ALAN BROADBENT FOR JOURNEY HOME.

I heard this lovely song on a CD called Round Midnight by the New Zealand jazz pianist, Alan Broadbent. It is called Journey Home. He is famous where jazz people gather, and a Double Grammy Award Winner to boot. Played with many of the greats, arranged music for them, and led their bands. That takes some doing starting from a little country like New Zealand. It is wonderful there, relaxed, easy life style, people are great. People there live for the weekends. My 2nd favourite country after Scotland.

Couldn't get the song out of my head. It was beautifully played by his trio, and the harmonies were gorgeous. You can hear the song on Spotify. Enter <Alan Broadbent Journey Home>

I asked his website where I could buy a chart for the Workshop. This lovely chap replied himself and gave me a .pdf we could use free. Geoff did copies in Bb and Eb for us. We'll do it to-morrow.

I can personally identify with this song. I bet I know how he came to write it.

THE FOLLOWING IS A GUESS. THE BEST SONGS ARE BASED ON PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.

Like him, I used to do six week tours of the USA or Australia and New Zealand leading seminars. It was terrific fun, but at the end, when the job was done, the people had laughed in the right places, you were glad to get home. All that last day you looked forward to the evening flight. "To-morrow I'll be there," you said. "Thank Heaven."

This song is absolutely perfect to describe that feeling. I bet he wrote it on an Air New Zealand flight, non-stop from either Houston or LA. That is about 13 hours.

I'm going to ask him. Is that anywhere near right Alan? And thank you again.

John
ps. Alan, could the band play it in the Festival of Chichester in June please? With due credits to you and the CD of course.

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