I am currently in the works of putting together a seven piece band. I will update you more on that as it develops. You can see the members names and instruments on the players list on the main page.
We are STILL preparing our album of Avant-Garde, Bop, Vocal Jazz, Vocalese, Beat Poetry, and Melodic Beauty. There will also be an intrumental that I am writing and will be playing in along with our regular guitarists. (With a band that is in constant change it's hard to get anything done. These cats seems different though) The name of our record is 'Red and Purple Make Blues'. The planned songs are as follows.
1: On The Red Clay
(Freddie Hubbard/Mark Murphy)
2: Blue Skies
(Irving Berlin)
Suite of Love:
3: The Girl From Ipanema
(Antonio Carlos Jobim/Vocalese lyric to Stan Getz solo by Phil Knowlton)
4: Dancing
(Laurence Hobgood/Phil Knowlton)
5: I'll Know
(Frank Losser/Additional lyric by Phil Knowlton)
6. Straight, No Chaser(Scat Salute)
(Thelonius Monk/Improvised lyrical solo by Phil Knowlton)
7. Purple Teddybears(For Julie)
(Sonny Rollins/Phil Knowlton)
8. It Don't Mean A Thing(If It Ain't Got That Swing)
(Duke Ellington/Featuring the poem 'Little Red and the Swingin' Huntsman' by Phil Knowlton)
9. Unspoken(Love)
(Phil Knowlton)
10. Ballad Of The Sad Young Men
(Tommy Wolf/Fran Landesman)
11. Watermelon Man
(Herbbie Hancok/Jon Hendricks)
12. My Funny Valentine
(Richard Rogers/Lorenz Heart/Vocalese lyric to Miles Davis solo by Phil Knowlton)
13. The First Robyn Of Spring(Instrumental)
(Phil Knowlton)
That's the song list for our first record. We're still writing a few of the songs and arrangments. We hope to have it out and avalible at our shows and through special order within a the next six months to a year. Hope you all like it. There'll be some origanal stuff along with some old favorites with a new twist.