AllenLowe Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 (edited) just came back from NYC on Tuesday night, having finished a recording session in Brooklyn on 4/17 with Matt Shipp, Randy Sandke and Scott Robinson, and am quite happy with the results - I haven't set foot in a studio in about 12 years, and I'm working on a complicated new project for which I'm playing alto and guitar. Shipp did two solo piano pieces that I'd written, and we did a guitar/piano duo of an 8 bar blues. Matt is a sweetheart and a brilliant musician; it was the first time we'd met in person (we've been talking on the phone about the project for about 4 months); it was my recording debut on guitar so I was nervous but it went well. I than did a trio with Sandke and Robinson; Scott played the bass parts on contra bass clarinet - we did two tunes I'd written, one based on the changes to I'm Coming Virginia, the other based on Yardbird Suite - I played alto on these - and I want to praise Randy as one of the giants, an amazing soloist and the nicest guy on earth - and Scott was brilliant if a little cranky (he came back from Moscow the day before; and is still recovering from a broken leg) - I'm going down again to NYC to record with Marc Ribot on 5/15 and will probably do the final recordings back in Maine at the end of May with my local group - should also mention that we recorded at Systems Two in Brooklyn; great sounding room, nice people, excellent engineer (Richard Lamb) - Edited April 21, 2006 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 You got a label for this, or are you planning on doing it yourself? Sounds like it should be interesting, keep us posted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeCity Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 Sounds like you got some good stuff done. Let us know when any of it is available. Scott Robinson is quite the multi-instrumentalist. A title sealed when he had a Theramin credit on one of the Maria Schneider big band sides. I also really dug his baritone sax work on the Brookmeyer side where Robinson was the featured soloist on the "Celebration Suite", written for Mulligan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted April 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 unless I get a call from Chuck Nessa I'll probably put it out myself - it's interesting, though not surprising - - of the 6 CDs I've put out prior to this, three were on regular labels, three I put out myself - and I always made more money on the ones I financed - has to do with some sleazy European publishing deal and the general accounting practices of even small independent labels - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert J Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 Count me in for a copy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soul Stream Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 Congrats on a finished project! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted April 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 (edited) thanks - there's a little more to go but I'm optimistic about this one - I've been up in the boonies (Maine) a little too long, so it was nice to work with such world-class musicians. There'll be a few surprises, I think - Edited April 21, 2006 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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