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Charles O. Hartman’s jazz-centric albums Plumb (2000) and Beside the Point (2008) are on SoundCloud. Links to all tracks are listed here. Hartman wrote many of the songs and tunes, but others are standards, and several were written by Steve Swallow. Hartman is primarily a guitarist, but on some of these tracks he sings and plays bass and saxophone.

Beside the Point

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Plumb

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It’s like practicing your daily
daily scales, and halfway down
letting one note sing
while you ask the other fingers
what they think.
“Same,” Downfall of a Straight Line
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