Slowly chipping away at lead sheets. I know I have a lot of these as Sibelius files already, so I’m doing the ones I know I haven’t got.
Here’s a recording of The Deborahs (Roger Travassos, Chris Banks and me) playing Calvin Klein for Ghosts. We don’t play together enough.
and the chart:
I just spent the day recording with Everything All The Time. I’ve been a member of this band off and on for a few years. It’s off right now, but they were generous enough to invite me to play on The Pinnacle, a song we reworked while I was a member.
I love playing with EATT, and I regret having to leave – between baby, school and work I had no chance. The music is fantastic, but even more than that, they’re so good to work with. Everybody has enormous input compositionally and nobody’s afraid to speak their mind when something’s not working. It’s a warm, happy, effortless environment. A perfect balance between good, danceable music and creativity (often outright weirdness) that’s usually really difficult to get right.
I’ve (finally) started putting lead sheets for all my tunes into the same electronic place (I’ve got photocopies and handwritten charts everywhere) and I figure I’ll put them here as I progress.
Tim Shia calls Giant things by the side of the highway my indie jazz mega-hit.
Here’s a recording of Christine and I playing it at the Tranzac. We’ve been playing it slower and slower, to the point that now we just play it once through, no solos, otherwise it’s unbearably long. Here we play it twice:
[audio:http://fancydavid.com/_fancydavid/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Giant-things-by-the-side-of-the-highway.mp3|titles=Giant things by the side of the highway]Giant things by the side of the highway (pdf)
Fine print, in which I presume somebody likes this: Feel free to use as you like, as long as you don’t run afoul of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License I’m using. Also, it’s okay to play this stuff on a gig, which is sort of commercial but understood to be cool. Otherwise, get in touch and we can work something out. If you want to use it on a record, please let me know. If you play it at a show and record it, I’d love to hear what you do with it.