Don't Get Around Much Anymore/Dunbar

Don't Get Around Much Anymore was my high school girlfriend's favorite song. When our relationship dramatically ended, I was crushed and decided to learn the song as a kind of catharsis. Rather than having to actually listen to jazz, I learned the version Bela Fleck and Mark Schatz play together on the Spectrum album Live in Japan (1981). I learned Dunbar in a much less dramatic way from George Jackson. I decided to play these in a medley partly because I thought it would be funny to go from a Duke Ellington song into an Ed Haley tune. Additionally, the woman I was dating at the time was a big fan of both jazz and podorythmie so the combination was also meant to excite her.