Almost There.

Well the pieces are recorded, mixed and mastered. All done with great help from Mike Mullin.

Now for the hard (for me) part. One tune still needs a title and I have to put together a graphic. I thought this might look nice.


They are Snowdrops from my back garden.

Into The Studio

I will be recording new tunes on Thursday March 31.

This will be a trio with Mark Rehder on drums and Mike Tremblay on sax.

There will be four tunes available soon for $4.00.

Watch this space for more details.

Work In Progress pt.3

Wow time flies. It has been a while since I last posted but not for a lack of activity.

I recorded a bunch of tunes with my group (Mike Tremblay - sax, Mark Rehder - drums) and just posted a tune from that session on MySpace. It is called "30202008". Don't ask me where the titles come from just trust me that the music is better.

More soon.

Work in Progress Pt. 2

Here is tune number 2.

It has a title.

Smoke.

A little explanation about the title. My children were making their first attempts at playing something coherent at the piano a few years ago and they had both picked up the riff from 'Smoke On The Water'. Now this a fine tune but, after the nth time hearing it thrashed out by an over enthusiastic child something had to be done.

I sat at the piano one afternoon and came up with a raft of alternate changes and after a while a melody presented itself to me and I was off to the races. Through in some bars of 3/4 and hey presto a new tune. Easy, no?

Work In Progress

And so begins the road to another CD release.

The first order of business is to demo tunes. This allows me to sit back and, with a critical ear, hear what I have written away from my instrument.

The first tune up has no title yet (you'll see that phrase a few times) so it is numbered 11112007.

This could go a few ways. It could be a solo piece, with drums (percussion?), or include a horn (sax? trumpet?).

There are artistic and financial considerations at play.

I'm projecting either a fall release or next spring.