Mazz and Chuck's Excellent Adventure

crs7string · Post by **crs7string** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:34 am

This time tomorrow I'll be at the Nashville airport waiting to board a plane to San Francisco for a recording session on Thursday and Friday.

Mazz and I started the process of planning a jazz quartet project in May of last year and it is hard to believe we'll be in the studio this week.

The studio has been booked for several months, we have our bass player and drummer all lined up, and all of the charts for our sessions, ( fourteen in all) have been gone over with the proverbial fine tooth comb.

We are ready to go!!

We will report our progress as the week unfolds. We hope you will find our posts to be informative and interesting.

Chuck

kclements · Post by **kclements** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:40 am

So looking forward to hearing this project come to life. Hope you take lots of photos as well.

Safe travels.

kc

Kolstad · Post by **Kolstad** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:53 am

aand vids

andygabrys · Post by **andygabrys** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:02 am

good luck!

mazz · Post by **mazz** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:09 am

Our sessions are imminent!! As Chuck said, we are recording this week. I wanted to show who our rhythm section is:

The bass player is also the engineer. He is an extremely talented guy who is one of the top call bass players in the Bay Area. He has been musical director for Julio Iglesias as well as playing for many of the top acts that come through town. He also does remote rhythm section work from his studio:

http://www.studiorhythm.com/Welcome.html

Our drummer is also a top call jazz drummer in the bay area and beyond and has been Boz Scaggs' drummer for his standards projects over the past few years. I love playing with this guy, his swing feel is really deep, I always play better when I play with this guy:

http://www.jsklewis.com/Jasons_Web-Site ... me....html

The studio we are recording in is a very nice facility in the South of Market (SOMA) area of San Francisco. They have a large SSL control room and a smaller control room with an API console, which is the the one we will be using. They have 2 Yamaha grand pianos. I chose the newer of the two. The older one was more mellow sounding but the newer one just felt more responsive to my touch. We will all be isolated from each other. The reason that choice was made is because we will be creating alternate mixes for these tracks and we need complete separation. Mic bleed would be preferred for a commercial CD release but this is intended to be for production music, so we are going with separation.

http://www.studiotrilogy.com/?gclid=CPX ... hwodel98Rg

I'm feeling the adrenaline already!! Woo Hoo!!

More to come!

Cheers!

Mazz

guitaroboe · Post by **guitaroboe** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:28 am

Wow!
this is gonna be sooooo cool. A true meeting of giants!

all the best to you guys-can't wait to hear the jams.

A word of caution: go easy on the vino!!!!

Adonis

Kolstad · Post by **Kolstad** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:36 pm

This is a WOW project!!! Can't wait to hear the tracks..

pboss · Post by **pboss** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:56 pm

Definitely can't wait to hear the tracks

byllsong · Post by **byllsong** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:07 pm

Looking forward to updates.

manninghollow · Post by **manninghollow** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:59 pm

Rock On Chuck! Can't wait to hear the tracks!

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