Another original tune. This is the only song that ever made money for me. I started writing this one about 10 years ago and finally finished it this summer. Roman Nose was a mountain in Oregon on which my great uncle Ike spent his summers as a fire lookout when he was a young man. Duck Baker taught me this tune of his.
Duck plays the head twice, improvises for several verses, then replays the head and stops.
I'm not as good at improvising as he is, but I didnt want to simply memorize his improvisations. I kept needling Duck to teach me this, so he dredged it out of memory in one of our lessons and showed it to me. Duck uses his thumb a lot for the bass notes on this, but I refingered it a bit to avoid using my thumb. This Thelonius Monk tune was made famous by the film of the same name. I first heard Duck Baker play his arrangement of it at a 1991 benefit concert I organized for Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.