phreek progress
You know what's a freaky feeling? Scheduling musicians to record tunes you haven't written yet. The big band tune finally got rolling this morning, and I've been harmonizing my brains out all day. It's about 75% finished. That just leaves the lounge tune, the Latin tune, and making up the lead sheets for the other 4 tunes...
You know what's even freakier? Scheduling musicians before you've got a recording engineer set up to record them! My first choice, David Axelbaum is out. My very-close second call, Matt Prock, is out too. So I'm trying to track down two guys who come highly recommended -- Steve Weeder or Danny Leake. We'll see who calls first, and who's available for at least three days in a row...
But I've got to start getting musicians... so I called Jimmy Sutton -- great swingin' bass player for a band called the Four Charms. I've been wanting to record with him for years now, and I've finally got the excuse! Unfortunately, he'll be on tour in Italy and is then headed for L.A. to record the next album. Next call, Larry Gray -- AWESOME jazz bassist (bassist with Ramsey Lewis Trio). I was going to call him anyway for some of the other tunes... he's free, SWEET! So maybe I'll just have him play all the bass parts for everything, and just switch instruments.
Drums -- Larry Beers. He's pretty sure he's available, so we'll try to confirm this weekend.
Percussion -- called Alejo Poveda. He's going on the road on Wednesday, so unless I can record him on Tuesday afternoon, I'm out of luck. Called Jose Rendon just in case.
Piano -- called Chris Cameron -- he's on tour with Sonya Dada. Called Ed Tossing and left a message. Hopefully Rob Berry will be available for a few of the tunes, so I can mix up their styles.
Saxophone -- Steve Zoloto just had twins, so it looks like Eric Pryzby is gonna have to mult alot of my parts. That's fine -- he's a monstrous player. Just to ease the burden a bit, and to get a buzzier, Clarence Clemmons kinda sound on a few tracks, I put a call in to Paul Mertens.
Trumpet -- Carey Deadman. Left a message.
Trombone -- the legendary (at least is in my mind) Tom Garling. This guy is one of the most musical cats I know, and has toured and written charts for everyone from Woody Herman to Maynard Ferguson(so no pressure there!). Left a message.
Chicken-pickin' guitar and dobro -- the multi-talented John Rice. He's free for Friday and ready to rock.
So I've got most of the tunes, half of the band, no engineer, its getting dark, and I have a Chiropractor's appointment.
HIT IT!
You know what's even freakier? Scheduling musicians before you've got a recording engineer set up to record them! My first choice, David Axelbaum is out. My very-close second call, Matt Prock, is out too. So I'm trying to track down two guys who come highly recommended -- Steve Weeder or Danny Leake. We'll see who calls first, and who's available for at least three days in a row...
But I've got to start getting musicians... so I called Jimmy Sutton -- great swingin' bass player for a band called the Four Charms. I've been wanting to record with him for years now, and I've finally got the excuse! Unfortunately, he'll be on tour in Italy and is then headed for L.A. to record the next album. Next call, Larry Gray -- AWESOME jazz bassist (bassist with Ramsey Lewis Trio). I was going to call him anyway for some of the other tunes... he's free, SWEET! So maybe I'll just have him play all the bass parts for everything, and just switch instruments.
Drums -- Larry Beers. He's pretty sure he's available, so we'll try to confirm this weekend.
Percussion -- called Alejo Poveda. He's going on the road on Wednesday, so unless I can record him on Tuesday afternoon, I'm out of luck. Called Jose Rendon just in case.
Piano -- called Chris Cameron -- he's on tour with Sonya Dada. Called Ed Tossing and left a message. Hopefully Rob Berry will be available for a few of the tunes, so I can mix up their styles.
Saxophone -- Steve Zoloto just had twins, so it looks like Eric Pryzby is gonna have to mult alot of my parts. That's fine -- he's a monstrous player. Just to ease the burden a bit, and to get a buzzier, Clarence Clemmons kinda sound on a few tracks, I put a call in to Paul Mertens.
Trumpet -- Carey Deadman. Left a message.
Trombone -- the legendary (at least is in my mind) Tom Garling. This guy is one of the most musical cats I know, and has toured and written charts for everyone from Woody Herman to Maynard Ferguson(so no pressure there!). Left a message.
Chicken-pickin' guitar and dobro -- the multi-talented John Rice. He's free for Friday and ready to rock.
So I've got most of the tunes, half of the band, no engineer, its getting dark, and I have a Chiropractor's appointment.
HIT IT!
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