I set out to play something, and have a conversation about groove. Didn't come out that way. There is a beat throughout this piece and you have to ride it out through the stretched rhythm parts, but the beat goes on. There is at least a measure of 2/4 here and you could count the whole thing in 2. This throwing some meter changes and compressing/expanding of the timing of some phrases is pretty much a trademark of mine (at least the way I do it). It's the way the music comes through me while I'm playing. Even today when the coffee has seemingly had little effect on me so far, and I'm not really feeling mentally clear, I just hit record and stuff like this comes out.
Also of note, there isn't a shred of pedaling today just like yesterday. I like to hold notes when I can. I also like to play three things at once, a melody, the bass or roots, and some chording or a comp part in the middle which gets shared by both hands. This is a comfortable place for me to live as I developed it sometime after starting the walking bass line/ melody contrapuntal jazz development as a teenager. It's a logical extension to add some comp hits in the middle, then you get this three way interplay going on that's a blast!
Also of note, there isn't a shred of pedaling today just like yesterday. I like to hold notes when I can. I also like to play three things at once, a melody, the bass or roots, and some chording or a comp part in the middle which gets shared by both hands. This is a comfortable place for me to live as I developed it sometime after starting the walking bass line/ melody contrapuntal jazz development as a teenager. It's a logical extension to add some comp hits in the middle, then you get this three way interplay going on that's a blast!