Category: Positive

Getting excited now! I just wrote out a brand new tune, tentatively called “Blue Son Herb”; strange name, but there the Herb actually stands for Herbie Hancock. The whole thing is based on a piano voicing for a Minor 11th chord which he made famous really. I’ve used it before like in the intro for “The Pursuit” on the last record, but this new tune takes it to the next level! We’re going to record it on Monday at my dear friend Mouse Johnson’s place, with none other than Cris Coleman on drums, Ronnie Gutierrez on percussion and Andy Langham on piano. Played LIVE with no click track! Of course I’m gonna do my thing with it later, and I have big plans with orchestration on this record, with all kinds of instruments, real and virtual. We’ll also be doing “Song For Buster”, a tune I wrote for Ronnie’s old Pooch.

Next Friday, Jonathan Dresel is up, again with mr. Gutierrez on percussion. Hopefully we’ll have Jeff Babko for a reunion of the Pursuit sessions, but Mitch Forman is also an unbeatable option. I’d really love to get Rodney Lee on there too if time and budget permits….

Stay tuned!

It was in the paper again today: personal robotics, the future. Some company has been working on an operating system for Robots, ROS, providing it to research institutions worldwide. The idea is, this was people don’t have to keep reinventing the same thing. We all work on a standard platform, instead focusing energy on the actual tasks this wonderful machine is going to perform. They predict a ‘Household Robot’ will be marketed within 10 years!

That’s it! The song I did with Michael Burton a while ago is going on the next record! Even though the checkout clerks at stores seem to have won a round against self-checkout robots, they are on their way; there’s no doubt about it. How many people are going to be vacuuming if their electromechanical buddy can do it for them? Mowing the lawn anyone? Laundry, dishwashing……..