MUSICAL EXAMPLES of Doug Kobs playing solo or with other musicians

Solo Piano/Keyboard – Fast and dirty “one-takes” on the home audio recorder:

A NIGHT IN TUNISIA
Dizzy Gillespie, 1942
Doug Kobs, Solo Piano

MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Rodgers & Hart, 1937
from “Babes in Arms” (sung by Mitzi Green)
Doug Kobs, Solo Piano

MY FAVORITE THINGS
Rodgers & Hammerstein, 1959
from “The Sound of Music” (sung by Julie Andrews)
Doug Kobs, Solo Electric Piano

AM I BLUE
Akst & Clarke, 1929
from the movie “On with the Show” (sung by Ethel Waters)
Doug Kobs, Solo Piano

 

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With BIGFooT GRooVE (Live Performances):

COLD SWEAT (James Brown, 1967)
Live rendition by BIGFooT GRooVE recorded at the
“Kobstock” Party at Lake Gaston, NC

YOU CAN LEAVE YOUR HAT ON (Randy Newman, 1972/Etta James, 1974)
Live rendition by BIGFooT GRooVE recorded at
The Flip Side in Cary, NC

CUT THE CAKE (Average White Band, 1975)
Live rendition by BIGFooT GRooVE recorded at the
Korner Pocket in North Raleigh, NC

IS THIS LOVE (Bob Marley, 1978)
Live rendition by BIGFooT GRooVE recorded at
Local Bar in Apex, NC

 

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With Peggy Hayes:

IS YOU IS OR IS YOU AIN’T (MA’ BABY)
Louis Jordan, 1943
released as the B side of the single “G.I. Jive”
Cover by Peggy Hayes (vocals) and Doug Kobs (piano)

TEMPTATION
Tom Waits, 1987
from the album “Franks Wild Years”
Cover by Peggy Hayes (vocals) and Doug Kobs (piano)

‘ROUND MIDNIGHT
Thelonious Monk, 1944
Cover by Peggy Hayes (vocals) and Doug Kobs (piano)

BLACK COFFEE
Burke & Webster, 1948
recorded by Peggy Lee on her 1953 album “Black Coffee”
Cover by Peggy Hayes (vocals) and Doug Kobs (piano)