@daventillinghast.bsky.social
Award-winning composer and lyricist, avuncular curmudgeon, armchair philosopher; I like coffee, jazz, poetry, and science news
Well, ‘tis the season for local record label Xmas compilation albums, and here’s a good one. Lots of fun originals, re-imagined standards, and, coincidentally it also features a track by yours truly and my lovely wife Megan
Check it out!
greenmonkeychristmas.bandcamp.com/album/were-b...
Getting into the holiday spirit over here
02.12.2025 23:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rise and shine, waffle heads
@ Leaning Maple
Quick, somebody go listen to my music on Pandora!
23.11.2025 21:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A chorus of Monk’s “I Mean You” (taught to me by Syd Potter RIP) to plug tonight’s duo gig with Vince Brown at the Eastside Club
20.11.2025 23:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0- Tomorrow, Thursday, 11/20, 6:30-8:30 @ the Eastside with Vince Brown, jazz guitarist;
- Saturday 11/22, 5-6:30 @ Leaning Maple with Jessica Blinn, violinist and chanteuse;
- Monday 12/1, 7-9 @ Olympia Eagles with the Maria Wulf Octet, little big band music;
I continue to spend most of my evenings at home with my beautiful wife and our sundry creepy-crawlies, but every so often I perpetrate acts of jazzmanship in the local hidey-holes where that sort of thing is rewarded; to wit:
19.11.2025 17:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Revisiting this standard, reflecting on the turning seasons, plugging my EP, etc.
18.11.2025 22:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thinking about planting daffodils, & about Steve Munger, who taught me this song, & about my new EP
14.11.2025 01:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you like this chestnut standard, you may or may not like anything on my new EP ‘World Travels’
12.11.2025 01:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A nod to the changing seasons, and, unrelated: my EP ‘World Travels’ is now streaming everywhere!
06.11.2025 23:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was telling a student today about having my first guitar feature in WWU Jazz Band on this charming tune.
Also, apropos of nothing: new EP midnight Halloween
Thinking of my friend and mentor Syd, who taught me this song, among many others
30.10.2025 03:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’ve got a new EP of folk songs from around the world coming out midnight Halloween; in the meantime, here’s a fairly straight ahead version of this classic:
open.spotify.com/track/0blhUH...
Workin’ on an Aguado etude and also, in unrelated news, EP coming out midnight Halloween
25.10.2025 02:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0An homage to this week’s foggy mornings, and, I digress: new EP ‘World Travels’ out midnight 11/1
24.10.2025 03:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My new favorite band, straight out of Bremen, where they practice in a Cold War-era bunker.
Their bassist Ilko says: “In the bunker, there is no reception, no internet; there is only guitars and drums.”
modesaison.bandcamp.com/album/catwalk
Hello, Friends, Daven here, just taking a moment to thank my three newest benefactors: Tom, a classical guitarist, Shannon, who has a budding keyboard player at home, and Lisa, an aspiring keyboard player herself. Thank you for the support, and thanks for listening!
18.10.2025 00:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A little Jobim, and, entirely unrelated: World Travels streams everywhere midnight Halloween
16.10.2025 23:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New EP midnight Halloween , sounds nothing like this tender jazz ballad fyi
15.10.2025 00:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A song for the season by Wayne Shorter
10.10.2025 00:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Autumn in my ‘hood
07.10.2025 22:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“The results suggest that creativity could be prescribed, much like exercise, as a low-cost, accessible, and powerful way to protect brain health.”
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10...
In a few weeks I’ll put out a small collection of folk songs, ‘World Travels’. From my last such EP, here is a psychedelic rock interpretation of an ancient hymn. You may be wondering “why?”
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ffpx9RhvidgfiRjvT3HQ3?si=VSPekFY_SuiKCgGQkDHquw
This month my subscribers on Patreon step with me to an older version of the song that Simon and Garfunkle sang to so much acclaim in the sixties. Mixed and
mastered by Mike Tortorello, Soundchaser Productions, Olympia, WA Enjoy the track and thanks for listening!
New EP coming up on Halloween!
Big thanks to Mike Tortorello at Soundchaser Productions, Olympia, WA
Here’s a throwback from one of the world’s earliest operas; I have a new EP coming out soon that features more italiano and some other reimagined gems:
open.spotify.com/track/018MwR...
A lot like someone you know
12.09.2025 02:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bridge out on this classic by H. Hudson
09.09.2025 23:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
None of us are getting any younger
www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-...
