It Never Entered My Mind (from "Higher and Higher") - Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

#med (Music.Every.Day) This is video 452 of my video posting project. I have been working on this project since November 2023--learning and posting a video of new piano music (almost) every day! (I'm counting videos instead of days now!) Today's piece is called "It Never Entered My Mind" from the musical "Higher and Higher". It was written in 1940 by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. This arrangement can be found in Hal Leonard's collection: The Jazz Piano Solos: Coffee Table Jazz collection. The volume features arrangements of standards by Brent Edstrom. When I play musicals, even if I am playing unfamiliar ones to me, I can tell that it is connected in some way to lyrics. There is something very vocal in the rhythm and melodic patterns that sounds like talking to me. This arrangement is a very lovely one. The melody has some delightful wanderings in the middle section, lots of unexpected complex chords. Tune in tomorrow for more of my #music.every.day experiment!