Wrote this for Jill's birthday this year. I said audio soon to come back in January, so it's about time! It's an easy loping swing tune in "2", a nod to Horace Silver's "Strollin'". I really hope you hear the love and appreciation for our life together that I felt when writing it.



Strollin - W-Jillie

CestSiBon01

Improvisation on "Affirmation" by Jose Feliciano.  A demo of this "crossover"-style nylon-string guitar, with solid Spruce top, solid Rosewood back and sides, Mahogany neck with Ebony fingerboard, 1-7/8" nut, Rosewood headstock fascia, and Fishman electronics.

Altamira CN400CS

A Bill Evans tune, Kirk likes a lot of Bill Evans.  Kirk Tamura on Piano, Sylvia Cuenca on drums.

Catch the Wind

From Mimi Dye - River in the Sun (2007)
Mimi Dye - viola
Jackeline Rago - cuatro, bandola, mandolin, percussion
Vic Schrader - guitar
Donna Viscuso - flute
Sam Bevan - bass

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Track 1 - Thank God It's Friday

This is a recording we did at San Jose State University on 7/31/12 in room 150.  Thanks to John Shifflett for booking the room for us and to Jemal Ramirez for putting it all together.
Jemal Ramirez: Drums/Leader
Ben Torres: Sax
Sam Grobe-Heinz: Piano
John Shifflett: Bass

Recorded live to Apple's Garage band.  Piano and drums were each mic'ed with Audio Technica AT2020's.  Sax used a Shure Beta 98 clip on.  Bass had a regular Shure SM58 put right in front of the bass cabinet.  Everything was mixed and rendered in Apple's GarageBand.

Girls is Mine 01

If I should Lose You 02

Minor Shuffle Take 02

"Sugar" by Stanley Turrentine, Vic DeMartini Trio.  Danny Spencer (dr) Glen Richardson (bs) Vic Schrader (gtr).  Recorded live to stereo using matched pair of Octava MC012 mics in an x/y configuration.  No EQ or other post-processing applied to the recording, other than limiting applied to the highest peaks.  Vic is playing a 1954 Epiphone Zephyr with T-I flatwound strings.

Catch the Wind

Perry Thoorsell

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