When I spoke with the artist I've mentioned a couple of times on here about collaborating with one of her favorite artists is Randy Weston. Mr. Weston is a funky jazz piano player that has been putting out music since the early 50's (six decades) with an African influence. I looked him up on iTunes and purchased a few tracks off of his latest album, "The Storyteller." My favorite is track 10,"Fly Hi." Check it out on iTunes
With this collaboration our intent is for me to create/produce the track and have her provide the vocals. Our discussion was much more fluid than that but this is where we decided to start for now. I will be putting the track together this week as well as sending previous tracks I made in the Jazz genre for her to listen to. Once she gets a solid feeling about one or two of them we will move forward with adding vocals and tweaks. My intent is to put together a song that feels a bit like Randy Weston with a more contemporary sound. This will be a fun and exiting journey. There is more to come. Thanks for reading.
For more on Randy Weston check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Weston
Chuck Anderson
CEO, BSMG
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