2003 : "This Will Never Sell" : Improv 3

Описание: "This Will Never Sell" is one of many quirky titles trumpet player and composer extraordinaire Larry Willaims came up with for our free jams. This jam is14 minutes long and incorporates some metric modulation here and there. Recorded direct to 2 track. No mixing or overdubs. Guitar, Trumpet (with FX pedals), Bass, and Drums.

I can't remember the name of the engineer/studio owner.. who was amazing. Especially considering no one knew what was going to happen musically or dynamically.

Larry would organize gigs under the name LAQT (Los Angeles Quartet). We didn't play tunes. We would show up to a gig, (or in this case a recording studio) and make up the music from scratch. It was challenging, but always fun. I was asked to play on a lot of those gigs, and this recording.

This session which lasted the better part of an afternoon, included Derek Frank, a fantastic bass player who has toured with some of the biggest names in music. He was key on this day imo. His catchy and groovy bass lines laid the ground work for the rest of us. I had worked with Jeff Miley a lot. A very gifted guitarist and a great hang. Larry Williams was always in the horn section of my corporate bands, and had the concept for this free jazz project ..inspired by Miles Davis' Bitches Brew era. The photo was taken after we finished recording and is the only one I have of us.

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