last Friday, part 1

Hey sorry, crazy week -- we're in the home stretch on Stranglehold and there is precious little time to do anything else... although I did FINALLY finish Angels with Dirty Faces this weekend! But more on that later...

Here are a few pictures from the jazz recording session I had at Hinge studios last Friday. The day started at 6 AM, scrambling to finish up the charts for the session. They weren't that involved, but they still needed to be clear and precise so that we could minimize the discussion and maximize the recording time...

By 1:30 PM, Vince Pontarelli and I were downtown and by 2:30, we had a full band and were ready to go.

I didn't have much time to take pictures, but here's one of the drummer, Tom Hipskind, getting warmed up in the large live room:


and bassist Larry Kohut -- through the glass of the iso booth:


Meanwhile, our engineer, James, ran the board (those are my scores and cell phone on the right side of the board):


While Milt Allen and Vince hung out in the back on the comfy couch:


Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of the piano player, Ron Perrillo, but he was AMAZING. So was the clarinet/tenor sax player, Jim Gailloreto. Here's a picture I took from where I was sitting into his iso booth:


During the session, there was a 2 camera shoot going on, for the "making of Stranglehold" extra movie... here's the director, Chris, as we do the classic you-take-a-picture-of-me-taking-a-picture-of-you... it was his idea...


The session went really well, and it's going to be great in the game. As soon as it we were finished, it was time to rush off to see STEVE VAI...