I had a great time recording horns tonight at Madison Studios, adding horns to a New Orleans inspired project called Sazerac. Led by Greg Lee, the rest of the band is Mark Cobb (drums), Mark Dannells (guitar), and Mark Bencuya (keyboards). Great stuff!
A few of the tunes had horns on the original recordings, but mostly these are my horn arrangements.
For this session, I played alto, tenor, and baritone sax, and a little bit of clarinet. Everything sounded and felt good horn-wise (clarinet felt ok--does it ever feel really good?). Good reeds are everything.
Four tunes in four hours is pretty good. In a couple of weeks we'll go back in and record the four other, plus any solo stuff.
I was working up my arrangements last week at home. Here's a little practice solo: