Thinking Out Loud (feat. Jason Huang)

The album is a collection of some of our favorite standards, and of them we decided the title of this album should pay homage to the pandemic we've been wrestling with for almost a year now. Remember to social distance and wash your hands, folks!

At the end you'll find some Christmas tunes because it would be sacrilegious to NOT include some in an album released in December.

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Joe and I spent the semester together in an off-campus house in Pittsburgh. I had disposable income from my summer internship and a desire to dive into cheap/mid-range pro-audio, especially with the lack of gigs and performance opportunities due to the pandemic. I mean if I'm studying how to design/build this stuff, I should probably get my hands dirty first. I bought a Shure SM57 (and later an SM7B) microphone, a Zoom H6 portable recorder, and Audio Pro Addon C10 speakers. 

Instead of weekly jams, the CMU Jazz Club decided to have people upload recordings to listen to during virtual meetings. Joe and I did ours together, mostly in the format of a guitar and trombone duo.

These recordings were never meant to be put into an album- they were solely for the club meetings, with recordings every 1 or 2 weeks. As such, each recording set up is slightly different. For instance, in some tracks, you'll hear a different guitar tone, which is accomplished by mic-ing the guitar body instead of just the amp. 

Also, as busy college students just trying to get a decent recording for a club, all the songs are single takes without rehearsing, besides discussing form/road-map. There are many imperfections, and even some artifacts from recording such as pops and distortion, which I tried my best to edit out, but was limited due to my sole use of Audacity. I bit the bullet and bought a life-time license to Pro Tools, so thankfully, I'll be using that in the future.  
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Hope you enjoy!

Guitar: Sam Rainey
Trombone: Joe Finn

Album Art: Crystal Rainey

Frosty The Snowman (Bonus Track)

The Christmas Song (Bonus Track)

Bags' Groove

Misty

I Could Write A Book

Don't Get Around Much Anymore

All Of Me

Lucky Southern

There Will Never Be Another You

Sam Rainey

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