Just to take our minds off the Wuhan Red Death for a moment, here’s some music you might enjoy. The piece is called Spirit Moves, and it’s the opening track from Vince Mendoza’s album Instructions Inside, which I recorded and mixed back in March of 1991.
We did the sessions at Edison Recording in midtown Manhattan, with a venerable ensemble of musicians. This track features Peter Erskine on drums, Will Lee on bass, Don Alias and Manolo Badrena on percussion, Bob Mintzer on tenor, and John Scofield on guitar; the players overdubbed together to a few sequenced parts that Vince had prepared ahead of time. There were only one or two takes.
I did a lot of work with Vince back then; this was the second of two albums we made together in New York in a fairly short timespan (the first was Start Here, which we’d recorded about sixteen months earlier at my alma mater, Power Station). I’m still very fond (and proud) of both of these records. Vince Mendoza is a profoundly gifted composer and arranger, and even though we did these albums on tight schedules, we always had a lot of fun working together.
Headphones on then, and have a listen. If you want to hear more, the full albums are linked above.
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I hear voices.
A joke, teasings, playfulness.
An unusual chorale.
Thanks for sharing.