Clarinet Road Vol. I: The Road to New Orleans (2002)
To find one's true voice
Standards of the past ordain:
First stop, New Orleans
a Clarinet Road Haiku
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Track Listing:
- Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
- Basin Street Blues
- Carioca
- Monday Date
- Sweet Baby Doll
- St. James Infirmary
- If I Could Be with You
- You Made Me Love You
- After You've Gone
- Struttin' with Some BBQ
- Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
- Knee Drops
Total Time: 50min
About This Music:
After the first duo collaboration for pianist Tom McDermott, Sanford Hinderlie and I discussed a "Clarinet Road" series of CDs. We agreed that the first needed to have a New Orleans theme. After all, where else would be a legitimate starting point for Clarinet Road?
I already had some nice tracks I'd recorded in California around 2001 with old friends including Chris Dawson on piano, but they weren't enough for a whole CD. Around this time, I had the wonderful revelation of the New Orleans string band tradition, in particular a band called the 6&7/8's String Band. So, I was inspired to create some tracks with this texture, no drums, no piano. Those were recorded in New Orleans.
In a somewhat raffiné chamber-music aesthetic, there's nothing too adventurous here. Nonetheless, the arrangements stay interesting with little twists, turns, forgotten parts of better-known songs, and occasional references to important recordings or nods to my favorite players.
Album Info:
Release Date: September, 2002 (STR Digital Records)
Evan Christopher, clarinet (vocal on 7)
Chris Dawson, piano (2, 4, 6, 8, 10 & 11)
Hal Smith, drums (2, 4, 6 & 10)
Lars Edegran, tenor guitar (1-3, 5, 7-10, 12)
John Rankin, acoustic guitar (1, 3, 7, 12)
John Eubanks, mandolin (1, 7, 12)
Richard Perles, violin (3 & 7)
Bryan Shaw, trumpet (2, 4, 10)
Tracks 2 ,4 ,6, 8, 10 & 11 recorded by Bryan Shaw, Digital Brothers (Newport Beach, CA)
Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 & 12recorded by Tim Stambaugh, Word of Mouth Studios (New Orleans, LA)
All tracks mixed by Tim Stambaugh at Word of Mouth
All tracks mastered by Sanford Hinderlie, STR Digital
Produced by Evan Christopher & Sanford Hinderlie
