Although I no longer have to mix records to pay the bills, I still love to do what I do best, and so I enjoy doing a few projects a year in Hiram Hill Studio, the superbly equipped little mixing room I have here at home.
This spring I mixed a five-song compositional-jazz EP for a wonderful musician (and new friend!) by the name of Joseph Henry Cortese (a lavishly gifted drummer, composer, and recording engineer who is also the pastor of Crossroads Tabernacle in New York). It came out very well, I think — every aspect of this record, from the compositions and arrangements, to the playing, to the pristine recordings Joseph made in his own studio, is top-notch — and I’m proud to have been a part of it.
Have a listen here.
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Smooth……….
Hi Robert,
Yes, that was my impression when I first put up the faders to mix the first of the five songs: that it was a fairly generic “smooth jazz” record. But I got further in I realized that the album has far more depth and energy than that, and that the musicianship and the compositions are at a very high level. (I particularly like the fourth track, Atonement, for its woodwind arrangement.)
Malcolm,
I went to #4 too and caught that woodwind work and how it calmed, if that is the right term, the keyboard harmony. Funny thing, I and my wife, re-listened to all five especially #4 and maybe it’s just me but I kept hearing bits of the 1970s group Traffic…”Low Spark of High Heel Boys” I believe it was. Very fine mixing on your part.