Jazz Kamikaze Travelling At The Speed Of Sound CD

With Halloween 2004 set firmly in place for the concert debut, I tried to write at least one tune per month that would apply to this project. But most of my time was spent on an electronica album. It wasn't until mid-May that the looming deadline struck me and I began to switch gears. Ray Downey's input was invaluable to the charts I had written, for the ones in progress, and for the tunes I needed to write. Come On In was originally written as an electronica piece. It's the one tune that I actually composed a bass line for and provided specific direction to Blake for the piano part. It's kind of my tribute to an ECM sound. It's All A Dream is a nice happy tune with a straight ahead jazz feel. About his tune Steak-out Paul Sorensen says: I basically wanted to have an image for this tune that implied fun, food, party outdoors, and was tasty! Instead of a "Police" image with "stake-out" I changed the spelling to reflect the former image. Play-on words, if you will. To have a little interplay between the horns in the melody line was in keeping with the fun idea, then the coming together at the end of the line signified being with good friends. I play alto, Paul is on tenor and Ray on baritone. O.K. Here We Go is a tune based on major 7th chords. It has a different sound reminiscent of Charles Lloyd. It's the only tune that I play tenor on. Southside Steps is a modal tune written by Ray Downey. I remember this tune from 1980 when I used to watch Ray's group Geobopological Survey Team. It's a great addition to the CD. I play soprano, Paul's on tenor and Ray plays baritone. If It Hadn't Been For You was written probably seven years ago, but I never finished the melody. This concert provided the occasion to complete the tune, spice up the changes, and turn it from swing to a latin feel right before I counted it off. I based the tune on the jazz standard show tune sound and form. African Chant ...