
Get Flash to see this player.
Description
An new mix of this track, including more porgan in the middle section, is here: Lightning Strikes (v2). please let me know which version you like better (with comments on the new track's song page).
This is the first mixed track from my upcoming album RAIN BATHER. It features instrumental jazz charts of some of my tunes plus a few bonus tracks of Woody Mankowski on vocals. I'm excited about the project.
I wanted to do something with a fugue in this arrangement. It adds to the organized chaos, kind of a Mingus effect. The ending was partially improvised. I'm kind of astounded it turned out as coherently as it did. You give guys a chart and run thru the whole thing 2 or 3 times and, bam, they nail it. Amazing, really.
The live performances was mixed by guys on the soundboard at Lawrence University. I think the trumpet is too loud. I tried to remaster the track as best as I could. Please let me know if the trumpet bugs you, etc. (The AIFF is less tinny than this mp3, by the way; plus, it sounds better in headphones.) Its so hard to mic an ensemble...
The ensemble:
Tobin Mueller - B3 organ
Chris Mueller (my nephew) - piano
Jeff Cox - acoustic bass
Dane Richeson - drums & percussion
Woody Mankowski - soprano saxophones
Tom Washatka - tenor saxophone
Ken Schaphorst - flugelhorn
Bob Levy - trumpet
RAIN BATHER draft mixes on MJ:
I Wanna Fly
Lightning Strikes
Caught In The Current (feat. Bill Barner/Komdrade K)
Finding No Path
Seven Buttons On A Nehru Jacket
Acid Hopping (extended version)
Last Song On Vaudeville (feat. Bill Barner)
If you would like to purchase a copy of the CD, which is pressed on a cool disc that looks like a mini-LP, feel free to contact me, or see:
Rain Bather on CDBbay
Rain Bather on iTunes
This is the first mixed track from my upcoming album RAIN BATHER. It features instrumental jazz charts of some of my tunes plus a few bonus tracks of Woody Mankowski on vocals. I'm excited about the project.
I wanted to do something with a fugue in this arrangement. It adds to the organized chaos, kind of a Mingus effect. The ending was partially improvised. I'm kind of astounded it turned out as coherently as it did. You give guys a chart and run thru the whole thing 2 or 3 times and, bam, they nail it. Amazing, really.
The live performances was mixed by guys on the soundboard at Lawrence University. I think the trumpet is too loud. I tried to remaster the track as best as I could. Please let me know if the trumpet bugs you, etc. (The AIFF is less tinny than this mp3, by the way; plus, it sounds better in headphones.) Its so hard to mic an ensemble...
The ensemble:
Tobin Mueller - B3 organ
Chris Mueller (my nephew) - piano
Jeff Cox - acoustic bass
Dane Richeson - drums & percussion
Woody Mankowski - soprano saxophones
Tom Washatka - tenor saxophone
Ken Schaphorst - flugelhorn
Bob Levy - trumpet
RAIN BATHER draft mixes on MJ:
I Wanna Fly
Lightning Strikes
Caught In The Current (feat. Bill Barner/Komdrade K)
Finding No Path
Seven Buttons On A Nehru Jacket
Acid Hopping (extended version)
Last Song On Vaudeville (feat. Bill Barner)
If you would like to purchase a copy of the CD, which is pressed on a cool disc that looks like a mini-LP, feel free to contact me, or see:
Rain Bather on CDBbay
Rain Bather on iTunes
Leave a Comment
You must be registered and logged-in to comment.
Scott Carmichael
Hey Tobin sounds very cool ... live.... what's shakin' here... you didn't even list a genre... I'm sitting here hoping this is all software instruments so that i can go out and buy them... I can tell these are real instruments and a live recording though... Your composition?