[DanPerezSax]

Chuck is a guy I play with in a horn section who is a brilliant musician on top of being a fantastic sax player. He did this reharm and arrangement, made the track, built a good deal of the gear, mixed and recorded this, and did the video with no punch-ins. Check him out!

 

[Agent27]

If he was really awesome, he would've gotten it on take 11. :mrgreen:

Pretty sweet arrangement.

 

[DanPerezSax]

He just told me that listening back, he feels like take 9 was better. Take 12 sounds good to me!

 

[kavala]

mmmm. I like that. Lovely alto.

 

[aaront]

Wow, very nice!

 

[CooolJazzz]

Very tasty playing. Great sound. The only thing that totally ruins it for me is the extreme left/right channel shifting of the keyboard. It's an effect that instantly makes me physically ill whenever I hear it. I'm sure it's a physiological thing of some sort, like the way lights flashing at a certain speed can cause some people to have seizures. Fantastic sax playing though.

 

[DanPerezSax]

I don't usually hard-pan keyboard tremolo like that because it sounds weird to me, but I honestly didn't notice it on my cheapo home theater speakers. Now that I'm listening for it, I hear it. I bet it would have jumped out at me on the monitors or headphones, but it doesn't ruin it for me. The strings sound NICE! The arrangement is uber-hip and still sounds great, and the playing is great. He has that Meyer New York shine to the sound.

 

[CooolJazzz]

The strings do sound surprisingly nice, and I'm sure that keyboard effect was intensified by the fact that I was listening through headphones. It gave me an instantaneous feeling of motion sickness. It's definitely a great arrangement otherwise.

 

[-TH]

An ancient thread but I keep coming back listening to this version of "Sentimental mood".. Normally I'm in to a darker bebop alto sound but Charles' sound is just stellar! Dan, any info what mouthpiece he's playing?