Hey Everybody! Thanks for checking in!
The Seasonal Update:
I’ve wrapped
up another year teaching at UNO in New Orleans, and I’m looking forward
to being in NYC for most of the summer. Cindy
Scott’s CD, which I produced
and played on, is out, and I have been truly touched by all of the unsolicated
good vibrations sent my way from many people that I admire. Thanks for
all the love. We have some gigs in the Northeast and in New Orleans this
summer, so keep tabs on the calendar if you want to catch us.
Paul
Wiltgen and I are trying to finish his next masterpiece - we’re shooting
to get it mastered in June. What an awesome project this thing is - it is a total
blast listening to the playing and the sounds on these sessions. Can’t wait for
you all to hear it.
One of the things I’m undertaking this summer, besides getting
some good shedding in and eating my way through Queens, is compiling a collection
of Soul-Jazz leadsheets. This is a project I’ve been talking about doing
for about 6 years, so I’m excited to finally get it underway. I’m assembling
a panel of experts in the idiom to make tune suggestions for the book, and
to help me define the scope of it. I plan on the collection being around
200 charts when I’m done. If you have any great ideas, please pass them
along.
Bryan Galloup, God’s
personal luthier, has made me a new acoustic guitar which I am seriously
looking forward to playing for you all. Bryan is a true artist, and his skills
with wood and sound are uncanny. If you are a picker, I seriously recommend
that you check out his work. You can occasionally find instruments of his
at the Guitar Gallery outside
of Nashville, and at Mandolin
Brothers on Staten
Island.
That’s all for now - Peace & Funkiness!
ps: I started an email list thing a while ago, the big plan being
to send out my news and my gig list about once a month. So far I’ve
sent out exactly one mailing! I swear I will get it together eventually.
So, if you want to take the chance that one day you might get something, click these words.
If, at some point, you become terminally swamped by electronic correspondences
(which at the rate I’m going could never happen!), you can un-sign
up too, the convenient and automatic disconnect link comes with every email!
Also, you have the option of letting me know where you are, so I won't bother
you with gig notices for stuff nowhere near you.
STUFF TO CHECK OUT!!
Paul Wiltgen & The Paislies
Martin Urbach’s Free Will
Cindy Scott’s Let the Devil Take Tomorrow
Jirka Hala’s Make You Wanna Hala
