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Watch what happens bossa nova (voice, flugelhorn, frame drum & shakers)
Something old school. Here’s a classic bossa nova composed by Michel Legrand I’ve always liked. I’m playing mostly all real instruments on this one, except a couple keyboard sounds from a Korg synth. For percussion I’m playing a frame drum, a number of homemade shakers, and scraping a metal comb over a metal guiro called a torpedo. Recorded 6 vocal tracks singing in unison, played a flugelhorn solo over it. Decided to keep this one as real intstruments as possible, even though I have app instruments that would probably sound better. Used MultiTrackStudio to record it with, and Audiobus to feed my Zoom mic to it. Used a bunch of plug-ins.
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I love that your music is obviously created from a position of love for the original rather than any form of parody.
Beautiful flugel solo 🙏
Hey, thanks @GeoTony! I had already forgotten I posted this one here. Got back from my Florida trip and tonight saw your nice comment. I modeled this after the Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66 version. They were my introduction to Brazilian music, really hooked me on the genre.
Thanks for listening!
I just went back to check on the Sergio Mendez version and it’s way too fast and Lani Hall (Herb Alpert’s eventual wife) is singing a bit out of tune. But my memory of that album is that they were so great. I’m sure the newness of Bossa Nova at that time made them seem cooler than that recording does today.
The flugelhorn makes me recall the joyful Chuck Mangione who passes this week. I eventually got to hear the master of the flugelhorn Freddie Hubbard at the “Lighthouse” in Hermosillo Beach. Such a great cheap venue to see amazing touring jazz artists in the 70’s. Closer then the Baked Potatoe which is still booking acts today.
Regarding your recording… I wish I had the patience to attempt play so many instruments live let alone produce something worthy of pride in the results.
I might suggest a bit less reverb on the vocals… it takes me out of the recording a bit but is typically over used by insecure singers. The only solution for pitch issues is Autotune (it works and can’t be noticed when used correctly) or many takes until
every track is perfect. @Lady_App_titude always says she just keeps recording to get a usable track. Check out her work when you can… she plays almost everything too with the odd sax player or contracted singer.
https://ladyapp-titude.bandcamp.com/?search_item_id=1806041749&search_item_type=b&search_match_part=%3F&search_page_id=4533698139&search_page_no=0&search_rank=1=
I think she sounds great. I have no issue with her tuning. On the end of chorus vamps they're singing harmony in minor seconds, which is pretty cool.
Oh man, I would have loved to have heard Freddie Hubbard live, @McD! I bet that was awesome. Yeah, I heard about Mangione passing, played a tribute song on flugel at a retirement when I heard it (try to work in current events in my shows). Thanks for the reverb advice, I think you’re right. Yes, I have heard some of @Lady_App_titude songs posted here, she posts some great tracks!
She’s my role model for aiming towards perfection… @daveypoo is a close second with his productions.
Freddie’s drummer at this time was a teenaged Lenny White who went on to play with Chick Corea in “Return to Forever”.
Freddie treated Lenny like he was a kid he could make fun of for being a scrawny kid. I was glad to hear Lenny found a band with a nicer person. But Freddie in many ways was a more accessible version of Miles… So, much that when they put together
the VSOP Quintet (which was the brainchild of Herbie Hancock manager) they wanted to reunite the Miles Davis Quintet and
Miles was not interested in going backwards so they went with Freddie. In Downbeat Freddie said he was ready to be “the man”.
Technically, I think Freddie’s the better player but he never broke the new ground Miles did several times.
I’m glad you accepted the reverb comment with grace… I want to hear your voice(s). Unfortunately, that may mean a lot more takes. There’s an autotune for IOS as I recall… maybe several. Worth looking into. Purists can put up or shut up when it comes to tracking perfect vocals.
I’m not knocking Chuck Mangione, but I like your tone better. I think it was just his “style”, but he always seemed to have some loose ends that bugged me. Your tone is like butter. I like the wide variety of music that you select. When I listen to music, I like to know that it took talent and years of practice to create it. Maybe one day we’ll get back to that.
Thanks, @Paulieworld . Yes, Chucks sound wasn’t my fav either, but I really liked his writing and orchestrating, like on ‘Hill where the Lord hides’, what great track. The only other flugel players I listened too where Clark Terry and Hugh Masekela.
My trumpet teacher had an interesting story about a Mangione concert he went too, he was sitting in the audience next to a young lady, when Chuck came out on stage and flubbed a few high notes, my teacher was trying to impress the lady with comments like, ‘ Not a good choice Chuck, here’s how I would have played that, I’m a trumpet player too, etc.”. Turns out the lady was Chucks family member. After that he didn’t brag to concert strangers again.
Great sounds @Dav. It's good to hear all the real instruments being played. In what order did you record, vocals, percussion or instruments first? Lovely flugelhorn, too. I seem to remember Maynard Ferguson played some good flugelhorn solos. Thanks for sharing - more please.
I recorded bass and percussion first, then the synth harmony sounds, then vocals, lastly flugelhorn. They are mostly first take track recordings, I did re-record over some vocal tracks some because my wife decided to vacuum upstairs floor over my head during some of doing those.
Vacuuming… well that sucks.
I'm like a good whiskey or cheese - better with age.
I thought you have become a “cheezy whiskey battered from age”. We should start a club.
I'm all of the above,and cuddly too! 😉😘
Nice stuff!
Thanks for listening, @Lady_App_titude !
This is so smooth, tranquil, and uplifting.
Thank you @Blipsford_Baubie . It was stress relieving making it. I had a hard day, and recording a laid back bossa that evening was good therapy.
Kudos for choosing to keep it real. Have been humming it all afternoon. Excellent job recording the horn. Did you add some saturation or an exciter? Wondering if you may have stolen your own thunder by featuring the flügel ahead of the solo? There again, can’t have too much of a good thing.
And after Freddie, I caught that band with Wynton Marsalis at the Hollywood Bowl back in the early 80s.
Thanks, @AndyHoneybone. Yes, I added saturation using mixbox, and used the “type b” exciter by audio thing. Both of those I use frequently. Great plug-ins.
I ended up selling the microphone used in this recording - most of my gig checks were late last month so I had to sell some gear to get through the monthly bills, including this mic. Luckily though I got paid last Friday, and this morning found a brand new ZOOM H5 still in the box for only $79 at a pawn shop! It came with a new 32gb sd card too. Works perfectly. Can make some new recordings now.