Jimmy Winokur
 

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@Mile High Music, March, 2005   

2002-06 Studio Recordings:
These first seven links are to relatively recent
studio recordings of my music.  Beyond my own work on these,
the most important other creative force here, is Jamie Krutz. 

Chronology of My Songwriting:

All titles in blue link to music for listening

Early/Pre-Colorado

 

War Dance (pre-10)

The Things I Have No More (Teen Years)

Song for Marilyn #1 (1961; wedding processional )

Jimmy's Theme

Suite for Jimmy (including 'Drunken Sailors' Jig'

This recording made in the 1990s, with me playing all voices
on a Yamaha PSR-510 sequencer/synthesizer)

Song for Marilyn #2
 

          

 

                           

Romance

I made this recording in the mid '90s, ten years before recording Romance with The Dazed Band (linked above),
here playing all voices on my Yamaha PSR-510 sequencer/synthesizer.

Reaching for A

with Jamie Krutz on Guitars , Hammond B3 organ, co-production
(song, arrangement & recording all copyright 2005, James L. Winokur)  

Note:  Jamie Krutz is super -- both as musician and co arranger/producer.
 He is wonderfully easy and good to work with and, if you are considering a recording project, consider using him !

Theme for Youth
(song, arrangement & recording all copyright 2005, James L. Winokur)
 

                

Royal Entry (paired with Carnival Waltz)

Carnival Waltz**

After Wagner (F-Am-Dm)

Jimmy's Arrangement for 'Danny Boy'
(arrangement & recording all copyright 2005, James L. Winokur)

Brighten Our Faces at Dawn
  Confirmation Song / Song for Students , Rodeph Shalom ~1970-71

 

 

Colorado/Pre-Yamaha (1971-1985)


Song for Barbara (1973)

Song for Liz (1973)

Mary Ellen's Song  (1973)

Till Morning's Light (1973) ( a.k.a., Song for Marilyn #3, Recorded 2011)

Song for Georgia

Winter's Morning (1974)

Penny in the Garden (for Penny McCracken)
(with Kathie Kertesz on flute, the song, arrangement & recording all copyright 2005, James L. Winokur)

Song for Marilyn #4

Moving Toward the Light  (1975)

The above jazz version was made in 1979 with Jim O'Connell and the Salt-Lick Band
In 1980, I recorded another very different version of Moving Toward The Light ,
with me on Rhoads Piano, jamming at length with Kathie Kertesz on flute.

Almost Chapel Hill (1978)

Chapel Hill (1978)
both around the occasion of teaching law at Chapel Hill, summer, 1978
 

Luncheon on the Lawn (1979)

Power

Song for Rosalie   (#1)

 

I Can Write Music (re: Jan)

A Child's Forgotten Mornings (for Rosalie #2)

Danny Sets Out (in honor of Danny's Bar Mitzvah, 1982)

Song for Hilary 

Summer Song

Journey (solo piano)
previous incarnation:  Song for the Indentured
(Yamaha PSR510) (song, arrangement & recording all copyright 2005, James L. Winokur)

Eagle’s Cry
(song, arrangement & recording all copyright 2005, James L. Winokur)

Twin Toasts

Welcoming Song for Craig

Transcendence -- Transcendent March (1979-80)

 

Talia's Song **3/4 time (1980)

Jimmy 4-handed, on Rhoads piano, 1980
this is the early version recorded while Talia was in utero,
and played for her minutes after birth, January, 1981!

Talia's Song 4/4 time  Same concept

 

 

Yamaha Era

(beginning 1985  -- on the occasion of
my mom's -- Rosalie's --gift of my
Yamaha Grand piano)

 

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Bound to Love
(originally, "Commitment to Marry", for Becky and Roger, 1985)
(song, arrangement & recording all copyright 2006, James L. Winokur)

Earlier arrangements of Commitment appear below with Danny & Pam's Wedding music -- and here is another version:  Commitment - Yamaha PSR510 (1994)
 

Buchenwald Tailor (1986)
(a.k.a. ‘Room With a View’ -- for Morris, Louis ... and the Buchenwald tailor)
(song, arrangement & recording all copyright 2005, James L. Winokur)
 

April House  (for ‘Bobbie Webb’, in Herman Wouk’s Inside, Outside, 1986)
(recording all copyright 2011, James L. Winokur)
 

Interlude  (1993)
(song, arrangement & recording all copyright 2005, James L. Winokur)
 

Vicissitude (May, 1995)
recording features The Dazed Band
(song, arrangement & recording all copyright 2005, James L. Winokur)
 

Morning Breaks (1995)
(song, arrangement & recording all copyright 2005, James L. Winokur)
 

Wedding Song for Pam (1996)
(song, arrangement & recording all copyright 2005, James L. Winokur)

                      

Wedding Processionals for Danny, and for Pam (1996)

(includes slower version of 'Bound to Love')

 Commitment Processional and Commitment Recessional
 

Post 1997 - on Harvard St.

Sunlit Shrouded Bay -- Fog and Bridge(1999)
(song, arrangement & recording all copyright 2005, James L. Winokur)

                    

 

 

Nigun Siku'i Ahavah: Chant of Love's Possibilities - Waltz  (Spring, 2001, recording 2011)

Nigun Siku´i  Ahavah: Chant Of Love’s Possibilities  (Spring, 2001)

On Garfield St.

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Rosalie’s House (#3) (Summer, 2002, upon moving to Garfield St.)

 

When? (Spring, 2003)

Starlight Canopy (July, 2003)

Men's Chorus (in 6:8 time ) (September, 2003)
honoring my NWTA initiation into The ManKind Project)

Spring Sprung (April, 2004)

Love and Light (April, 2005)   

                            
Till Morning's Light
recording features The Dazed Band
(song, arrangement & recording all copyright 2005, James L. Winokur)

Wilderland  (a.k.a, Cutter, 2007)
(Title from Joni Mitchell's I Think I Understand)
 

Bells (2008)
 

Dark Eyes  (2009)

       
 

Chapel Of Love  (2009)

 

Lion (2010)

 

Tricia Jane (2010)               

           
 

Song for Louise  (2010)

Coming Through (2011)
 

Jimmy! (2011)

Indigo Tide (studio recording  - 2013)

Indigo Tide  (solo piano -2011)   

 

   

Ribbon (2011)                                                                                  top

Aching River (2011)

Opening  (2011)

Flourish (2011-12)

Filial (2012)

    

 

Promontory  (2012) 
Rosh HaShanah, 5773

           

 

Night Song (2012)

My Muse  (2012)

Winter's Field (2013)

August  (2013)

 

Rediscovery (2013)
Rosh HaShanah 5774

Stride (November, 2013)

 

 

 
Doris Merritt
my piano teacher,
2011-13

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