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Originally posted by Drumbo:
Excellent tunes James, I really enjoyed it (but, of course I hear a drum part in my head to many of them, especially the Atrium verson of "What's Your Point?") And btw, is that also you drumming on the Standards "Plus" version? I'm almost sure that you aren't playing both drums and vibes on "Second Thoughts" and "PM" eh? Give it up for the band and introduce your talented group!

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Thank you for the kind compliments about my music - I'm glad you enjoyed the tracks.

Actually, I've got the personnel listed on individual pages for each of my mp3's:

http://www.malletjazz.com/walker/sounds.html

...scroll down to the mp3 section of the page, and each song title is linked to a page with "liner notes" for that song.

There are a couple of tunes on the "Standards 'Plus'" CD where I overdubbed drums and vibes - it was a CD I put together to raise funds for the pressing of my "Rhyme" CD - but on the tune, "What's Your Point?", Joel Rosenblatt is the drummer. I wish I could play as well as Joel does... Actually, the track with Joel was something I produced for a "CD Masterclass" for Jazz Player Magazine (which I wrote for for a few years before it went belly up last December). The magazine gave me a budget for producing the disc, which is how I could manage to get players of that calibre into the studio.

I was also fortunate to have some wonderful musicians take part on "Rhyme Or Reason" - it was recorded while I was living in Illinois, having just finished my last graduate degree at Northern Illinois University. There are some top Chicago-area musicians there, including Fareed Haque (gtr), Craig Brandt (bs), Liam Teague (steel pan), and two really fine drummers from Chicago, Jeff Stitely and Paul Ross. Paul also plays drums on the "Live, Northern Illinois University" sound files on that page, which are taken from my graduate recital.

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I don't play vibes myself and I don't have MP3s linked on my site, but, I do have quite a few live band tracks stored on my domain that I can link to. Knowing that you are also a steel drummer; would it be okay to link to some of my trap set work work with steel drum bands here?

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Since you're playing drums on the tracks, why not start a similar "Can We Hear You On The 'Net" thread over in the drum set area of this forum? The drum set boards are busier than the mallet board here (I'm working on that, tho! ), so you probably will get more attention over there, and probably will generate a lot of similar postings.

But since you've mentioned the steel pan stuff:

http://www.malletjazz.com/eastshorejazz/sounds.html

...no mp3 files, unfortunately, just .wav and realaudio sound clips. (BTW, the drummer on those clips with drum set, is Mark Mahoney, a drummer/percussionist based here in Connecticut, who also stops by the tigerbill.com boards from time to time.)

Also, I've got some other sound files up on the following pages:
http://www.malletjazz.com/vokeswalkerduo/sounds.html - classical voice and marimba
http://www.malletjazz.com/mahoneywalkerduo/sounds.html - electronic percussion duo

JW

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Originally posted by Drumbo:
Joel Rosenblatt sounds fabulous on that track; I'm a big fan of his work with Spyro Gyra! You are fortunate to have great musicians surrounding you, but with talent like yours, that's a given; your talent will attract talent. Keep up the great work, I'm looking forward to more!

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