Photo by Jeffery Luhn
Music:

Captured Live

The Girl From Ipanema

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

All The Things You Are

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.

Shake On It!

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

Manhã de Carnaval

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

Laughter In The Rain

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

Partita XII Solo - August Kühnel

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.

You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

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

Procrastination

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

Blusette

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

Musician's Warehouse Big Band featuring Penny Hanna

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.

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.


Artist:Penny Hanna w/ The Musician's Warehouse Big Band
Released:October 8, 2021
Written By:Aaron "Pinetop" Sparks, Milton Sparks

Love Rises Up (1988)

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