My only advice to Narissa Padua — who totally rocks and is adorable — is that she can find her own phrasing, like check out Patti Barber

http://www.youtube.com/user/narissapadua?feature=watch#p/a/u/0/-zabk3J7Qfo

compare

ok well you have to sit through (what is excellent but slightly off topic Michael Arnopal — I saw this trio on my 40th birthday in New York at Birdland, and produced a show for their here in Palo Alto in late 1990s –) three minute bass solo intro — see especially around 4:07 and compare with Bill Withers original)

 

keep your shirt on!

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Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play
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