Captured Live

Our instrumental version of "All Of Me", written by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons in 1931, performed live in our project studio with guitar looping and programmed drums.

Here we tackle Robbie Robertson's "The Weight" as a harmonica instrumental, live in our project studio with live looping and pre-programmed drums. I fell in love with The Band as soon as their "Music From Big Pink" album hit the stores back in 1968 -- went to see them live several times back then and their music has stuck with me through the years. This particular tune has been covered by many, so there are some great versions out there. My favorite (of those I've heard) is still the version from The Band's "Last Waltz" album, performed with The Staples Singers (If Mavis Staples' vocal on that cut doesn't send chills down your spine, you may not be human :-)). So, this ain't that, just our humble take on it. - Slim

Antônio Carlos Jobim's timeless classic, "The Girl From Ipanema" (or as done here: "La fille d'Ipanema", filmed live in our project studio, with a bit of live looping, programmed drums and percussion, and French lyrics! (The French lyric was written by Eddy Marnay and popularized by singer Jacqueline François).

Penny Hanna: Vocal, Double Bass Slim Heilpern: Chromatic Harmonica, Guitar, Drum & Percussion programming

Jerome Kern's "All The Things You Are", filmed live in out project studio, with a bit of live looping and programmed drums and percussion.

Live (with looping) in the project studio, recorded October 2022.

Captured live in our project studio doing an instrumental version of Luiz Bonfá's "Manhã de Carnaval" (theme from Black Orpheus).

Live (with looping) in our project studio, July 2021. Instrumental version of Neil Sedaka's "Laughter In The Rain".

Penny Hanna - Solo Viola da Gamba - Partita XII Solo - August Kühnel (1645 - c.1700)

This is an excerpt from Penny Hanna's solo viola da gamba concert recorded live on April 20, 2017 at the Santa Cruz Public Library's "Munching with Mozart & Friends" series.

Our cover of Stevie Wonder's tune. Captured live at the 2009 West Coast Jazz Harmonica Summit.

Slim's tune "Procrastination" captured live at the 2009 West Coast Jazz Harmonica Summit.

Our cover of Toots Thielemans' classic "Bluesette" captured live at the 2009 West Coast Jazz Harmonica Summit.

This is Penny fronting the Musician's Warehouse Big Band, somewhere in the early 2000's. Big thanks to Trombonist John Tabler for getting this recording to us.

As far as I know, this is the only surviving video from the 1980s of our duo performing in front of a live audience. The occasion was the 1988 Austin Music Umbrella's Songwriters Competition where Penny was a finalist for her song "Love Rises Up" and voted Best Female Vocalist.

Penny's on fire here, and the crowd loved her performance. She's backed up by yours truly along with an array of synthesizers controlled by a computer live on stage (rather unique for that time period). The 80's were a prolific time for Penny, recording three albums of her original tunes within the decade.

- Slim