The first jazz album I've done in a while, and my
first real "playing" album. I pushed the racks of synths aside and revisited my first love, the Hammond
Organ. Most of the CD is in the classic organ trio format and
features great performances by guitarists
Joe Beck and
Mike DeMicco,
and drummer
Danny
Gottlieb. My brother Tony is
sitting in on bass, playing lead on a beautiful Jimmy Giuffre ballad. The album has a few originals and several
of my jazz arrangements of classic pieces - Erik Satie's
"1st Gymnopedie", Steely Dan's "Deacon Blues", Ralph Towner's "Icarus"
& the Beachboys’
"Sail On Sailor."
The cover photo was taken by photographer
Sally Anderson-Bruce.
It was supposed to be used for a CD cover but was rejected. I've been using it as my PR image shot for years and finally
got to use
it on a CD cover as I had hoped to. Thanks Sally.
I kept a log of the
making of the CD - now
moved to it's own section.
Self portrait. (OK, it's not
so great. I'll try again later.)
5/7 Zurich, Switzerland at Scala
Francesco and Rob Frazza
Photo: Pierre-Emile Bertona
Photo: Pierre-Emile Bertona
Photo: Pierre-Emile Bertona
Photo: Pierre-Emile Bertona
Photo: Pierre-Emile Bertona
Photo: Pierre-Emile Bertona
Photo: Pierre-Emile Bertona
Photo: Pierre-Emile Bertona
Photo: Pierre-Emile Bertona
Photo: Pierre-Emile Bertona
Photo: Pierre-Emile Bertona
Photo: Pierre-Emile Bertona
Photo: Pierre-Emile Bertona
Photo: Pierre-Emile Bertona
Photo: Pierre-Emile Bertona
Photo: Claude Wacker
Photo: Claude Wacker
Photo: Claude Wacker
Photo: Claude Wacker
Photo: Claude Wacker
Photo: Claude Wacker
Photo: Claude Wacker
Photo: Claude Wacker
Virtuoso Chapman Stick player Tom
Griesgraber joined the tour here Zurich. Tom & Jerry
Marotta have a couple of CDs out as a duo. They'll be
opening the shows for the rest of our tour through Germany,
Switzerland and Holland.
