DISCLAIMER: This post is about promoting my new project. If you DON'T post a reply, I can delete it after the fact, when it seems appropriate to do so. However, once replies have been made I can't delete it and it then takes up server space indefinitely. I leave it to you.
EDIT: I've added the sencond tune, As A Gnome Ran, at the bottom of this post. You are are welcome to check it out.
THE DREAM DEFERRED:
Since I left the road and began working as a free-lancer in the Chicago area, I have been harboring a dream since the days of the Brothers Drozdoff. That is to record my music and share it. A sub-dream inextricably attached to it is to create a recording company dedicated to exposing the fabulous talent that I encounter in the trenches of jobbing/casuals. These musicians are working in party, wedding and jobbing bands doing thankless work for a clientele that is more often than not indifferent at best to their remarkable talents. These people are world class and deserve a real audience.
THE DREAM REALIZED:
OK, the way things have evolved aren't exactly the way I would have had them work out, but the effect is exactly what I have been longing for! I must be humbly grateful for that. I am in the process of recording an extended CD of my music featuring real live musicians from the environment I work in.
The name of the CD is going to be "No Man Is An Island." I think you'll all get the point, here.
The first crew are the following:
Drums: Larry Beers
Bass: Greg Barone
Guitar: David Dorsett
Trumpet: yours truly, Nick Drozdoff
The first tune I just posted is called "Blueness." It is a minor blues, heavily altered with an interlude. I play the head. Dave plays the first solo - an amazing work of soulful self-expression. I then come in with my solo and play the head out. On the spur of the moment I decided to open the chart with a brief cadenza by Greg. Larry's entire drum part is essentially a giant solo in and of itself.
This tune is an emotional one for me. I'll leave it at that. These three musicians fleshed it out better then I could have ever imagined. You'll be hearing more from them.
I've also posted a fun tune based on the old New Orleans groove known as a hambone. The tune is called As A Gnome Ran and is essentailly a strange form blues.
This project will feature MANY more musicians. This ensemble is the heart and soul - the engine - of the Larry Eckerling party band. I'll be tapping many more of my comrades in arms.
As a final note, I want to offer a special debt of gratitude to Felix Vayser of the New York Trumpet Company. As many of you know, I am now a NYTC endorsing artist. Felix's contributions to my efforts are invaluable. He will be listed as a sponsor on the CD when it is formally released. I'll keep you all posted.
Here is the link to Blueness and As A Gnome Ran, which are exclusively at Mp3unsigned.com for a limited but indefinite period of time. Feel free to download (for free) in the time being.
http://www.mp3unsigned.com/showmp3.a...=18137&aid=633 http://www.mp3unsigned.com/Showmp3.a...=18206&aid=633
I hope there is something here that can touch you. That is, ultimately my motivation.
Peace.
Nick