As a composer, one of my most splendid experiences is sitting down at the keyboard with no song in mind at all and letting my fingers lead me into a variety of musical progressions extemporaneously.

I may have some fragment of a tune to start with, as in this case, but then the session takes off on its own and I just follow wherever it goes.

Sometimes, at the end of a jam session, a few of the unexpected progressions or riffs become seeds for the development of complete songs in their own right. You’ll hear that in these tracks from time to time.