I'm doing a jazz CD with just guitar, bass and drums... just standards and a couple of originals. I also sing on about half the tracks. It's gonna be "quick and dirty," as they say We set up in the studio a couple of months ago and just played for 2.5 hours, with little or no break. We ended up with 8-9 tunes in the can, and this is the first one we've mixed down- Route 66. Hope you dig it. It ain't perfect, but it's about the best that this guitar picker is ever gonna do! <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Rick McDuffie on 11 October 2004 at 06:46 AM.]</p></FONT>
Cooool! I luv listening to a trio doing that stuff. Close to the top of the favorites in my record collection is the "Poll Winners" recordings by "Kessel, Manne, and Brown". www.genejones.com <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Gene Jones on 11 October 2004 at 07:50 AM.]</p></FONT>
Steve, the guitar is a Samick Greg Bennett JZ2 jazz guitar with the stock "Duncan Designed" pickups... it's basically a Super 400 knockoff (17" wide), and you can hear that big body. I've sold a Gibson Howard Roberts and a Hofner New President in order to keep this guitar... I like it that much... plus I'm not afraid to take it to a gig! I have flatwound .012's on it. I rarely use a pick... Route 66 was done entirely with my fingers.
The amp is a custom-built Fender Princeton Reverb. A former employee brought the cabinet, chassis and reverb tank to work one day- in a box. Somebody had stripped out the electronics and speaker, and all we had was those three parts. A friend of mine built it back to 60's specs from scratch. It sounds great.
That's all I was using on this cut- the JZ2 and the Princeton Reverb. Our original plan was to go back and re-cut the guitar stuff on these tunes but, after listening to this one, I didn't think we could do it any better. So, that one was done live and real-time, in one pass.
For any who are interested, here's a photo of that guitar I'm playing on the Route 66 track. It's a LOT of instrument for the money.
Tony, thanks for the nice words, man. That is one of the quintessential American songs, isn't it? The first version I ever heard of it was by the Rolling Stones ca. 1965 Missed the Nat Cole thing completely until 20 years later.
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The bass player and I have played together regularly for the past 4-5 years. He and the drummer are in another band together, and the 3 of us have done a gig or two. Both of them are world-class players, in my opinion. That may be one reason it sounds cool and relaxed... we trust each other enough to lay back and leave some space. The drummer is just 27 years old... literally young enough to be my boy... but he plays with tremendous maturity and creativity. He reminds me of some jazz guys I had the privilege to perform with 30 years ago... who were in their 40's at the time.
I'm optimistic about the remainder of the tracks- they were all recorded in the same session so, from an engineering point of view, the others should sound just as good.
Odd timing, I just picked up a couple of the Poll Winners albums on cd, read this thread and they're mentioned!! I'm going to have say that they'll probably be near the top of my collection soon too. Barnel Kessel is just KILLING me!!!!!!!!!!
We set up in the studio a couple of months ago and just played for 2.5 hours, with little or no break. We ended up with 8-9 tunes in the can, and this is the first one we've mixed down- Route 66. Hope you dig it. It ain't perfect, but it's about the best that this guitar picker is ever gonna do! <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Rick McDuffie on 11 October 2004 at 06:46 AM.]</p></FONT>
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