This CD is one of my favorites to record on over my years here in the Minneapolis scene - the great Michael Ruff wrote this beautiful song and Melanie Rosales absolutely kills it..from Melanie Rosales CD - "Can't Change It"

More Than You'll Ever Know - Melanie Rosales

The Living Daylights CD project was one of the first major recording projects I was part of here in Minneapolis at Paisley Park with the late great Tom Tucker Sr. mixing. Incredible original written by Rick Barron and his Warner Chappell friends. 

All These Years - The Living Daylights

I have about fifteen keyboard parts involved in the intro alone on this cut - was part of the Living Daylights CD sessions at Paisley Park but ended up on Rick Barron's CD "Five Minutes from Elvis" - back when we rolled in with a 32 space rack (six feet tall) double sided full of keyboard rack session gear top to bottom. The good old days...real tape...yep.

If You Believe - The Living Daylights

Broadband.Com recording session winner Melissa Goyette (Canadian Idol Winner - songwriter/vocalist) brought us in to cut this track for her at MasterMix Studios (formerly in Minneapolis). Steve Hodge, grammy award winning engineer extrordinaire, worked his magic on this baby and it's a gorgeous track. Always hoped we would end up doing a full CD with her. Still hoping...

If This Is All There Is - Melissa Goyette

From the Mick Sterling CD "From Saturday Night to Sunday Morning" - a gorgeous Mick composition telling an intimate story - produced by Kevin Bowe and cut at Terrarium Studio in MSP

Maggie's Rosary - Mick Sterling

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06 Nothing Compares To You

Among my genius musician friends, Gordon "Gordy" Johnson stands tall at the top of the list. His innovative series of Trios CD's have been delightful and when I was asked to play on this track along with Gordo and Joe Bonadillo on drums, rendering our own take on the classic Bob Dylan song, I was actually replacing another track that had been originally recorded with the guys in the room at the same time. If you want to go prematurely grey-haired, then this recording process is for you! All kidding aside, this came together with ease, and I am honored to be among some of the greatest Jazz musicians in the world who are all part of this incredible CD. Check out this and other releases at www.tonalities.com - please support the work Gordy is doing - support jazz music and live music.

Watching The River Flow

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One of the coolest projects I've been involved with locally came at a time when music was just starting to become my daughter Kristina's calling (she is now a graduate of Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and Director of Bands at Belzer Middle School in Indianapolis IN...so proud of her) - as a parent, and a musician who has "been there" I know how hard our schools are fighting to keep their arts programs going, let alone growing. It's never been tougher than it is right now. So giving back - which is what this project and its successors have been all about - 100% of the proceeds donated to enhance arts education in Minnesota schools - was about as rewarding as anything I've ever been involved with on a charitable level.

Come Together - The Ronny Loew Band (MN Beatles Project)

This is a long soundtrack type original compositions for an album I composed and produced called Relaxing Tides for Compass Lifescapes and sold in Target Stores everywhere. Available on Amazon.com now.

The Storm

When Craig asked me to play on this project, I thought he was kidding. Gary Berg on tenor - OLD school baby - was a fixture on this scene here - Dean Granos on Guitar is brilliant, and sick. There are no meds for his sickness. It is incurable, and we are grateful for that. Kenny Horst on drums and Chris Bates round out the section along with our leader Craig - and this CD basically goes EVERYWHERE. I laugh every time I listen to it, remembering the "liquid" groove at the sessions masterfully recorded by the great Steve Weiss at Creation Audio, and, well - dig it!

Volume Goes Up When The Whiskey Goes Down - Craig Schumacher

Tours and performances include Bobby Caldwell, Jeff Lorber, David Sanborn, Donny Osmond, Jonny Lang, Ann Nesby, Ricky Peterson, Kip Blackshire, Rocky Robbins, Ricky Peterson, Italian pop superstar Giorgia, The Blenders, and more.

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