What a week this ended up being! I had the worst scheduled week in a decade on the books, and God was good - again!

I ended up with a nice variety of recording sessions and ended up making some good money for the week! I first recorded the walk off music for a new fireworks show for Bush Gardens - fun alto sax solo, high energy vibe! Was fun and real orchestra made it real special!!

I then had a session with Rivers Cuomo from the rock band Weezer out in Santa Monica CA. It was nice to get to hang a bit with Rivers and talk to him about the business and the web for musicians. I was surprised that he does all that stuff online like I do! He was on the web the whole time I saw him, listening but also reading and responding. It was nice to see I am not the only one buried in web activity and trying to stay connected!

We tracked Flute lines, fills and a little pad choir of Flutes on 1 new song! The producer had some really cool ideas and I hope the stuff makes it up on the track! The last time I did a Rivers call it was the end of 09 and a cool but strange hang....

Here is the Video I did with Rivers and J D '09

JD did his thing and taped the day too - the unofficial

The next session was replacing orchestra parts for a musical, recorded live for DVD. I was brought in to replace the Clarinet and Flute parts and it was challenging for me since I have not been practicing enough classical legit style music to feel really on for this type of session. I hope Tony got what he needed. I was tired….

The next day I was off the Laguna Beach to track some jazz standards for a local artist. I don’t remember if it was 4 or 5 tunes but we did have 1 section track to hit – all Tenor Saxes! I think it turned out pretty cool too!!

AS always – I am most excited about variety and I got a ton of it this week. From Pop Orchestra to Rock Band, from Musicals to Jazz Standards. I love a week of variety and challenge and I got a good one this week!!

On the schedule upcoming – South Dakota Church gig and workshops – Summer band gigs have me reworking the song books again – Spring web site updates have been ongoing – New EWI dotcom – Gospel Jazz CDs dotcom – Church Saxophone dotcom – Sax Love Songs dotcom – and fixing bad links thru a few other sites - GOOGLE AdSense and GOOGLE Analytics are working together nicely and being worked thru these sites as I go thru everything….

Good stuff – long overdue work – all setting up for a great summer 2010!!!!