Music by
DANIEL DORFF

PROGRAM NOTES & REVIEWS

Seven Daydreams on Can't Find My Way Home for Solo Bass Clarinet


PROGRAM NOTES
Can't Find My Way Home is one of Steve Winwood's classic songs, written for the band Blind Faith, featuring Winwood and Eric Clapton. SEVEN DAYDREAMS is a freeish set of variations on the song's distinctive chord changes and bass line, along with Winwood's characteristic minor-pentatonic blues vocal phrasings.

SEVEN DAYDREAMS falls somewhere between my previous In A Deep Funk and Dolphy's improvisations on God Bless the Child, both in concept and performance style. I wrote it for myself, as a way to keep me practicing.

Daydreams 1-4 and 6 may be most effective played like transcriptions of an improvisation, with whatever flexibility you feel to make it your own spotlight. Daydreams 5 and 7 may benefit from a more literal interpretation to make the most of the ostinatos and abrupt contrasts built into those sections.



 

last updated April 28, 2026
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