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Secret Light: Like most of my recordings this opens with a
completely improvised 'Secret Light' - yet it continues with another completely
improvised tune, a doubly creative opening. Count Basie, John Lennon and
Alan Menkin's work are interspersed with all other tunes that I wrote in the last
few years. I am finally happy to have recorded these songs.
Song for my Father: My Dad's music is in my blood. I heard passionate, whimsical, combinations of notes and tunes during my whole childhood. It was in the basement where his working musical laboratory was -- immediately after dinner almost every evening. Since we're talking about trumpet, everyone near heard but not the way I heard -- those tunes are ingrained in me and I can honestly say that most standards and big jazz tunes I learned at home from hearing him play them...
4: In this session, Matt and I ride a playful creative edge and hope you'll join us on this bending roller coaster. Some of the songs are new, others you'll surely recognize. As of late, several Hoagy Carmichael tunes have really hit home to me and have found their way into my repertoire. I'm proud to include them in this project. I hope you enjoy it.
Tidings: For years people have been asking me if I had a Christmas Album! And...for years I've performed my own interpretation of Christmas Music. No wonder so many artists do release Christmas Songs--They are really great tunes that lend themselves to one's own way of expressing them.
Anomaly: It's the morning of our second Trio studio session, and I'm standing in line at DiAmico's Deli in Broad Ripple to have a good veggie omelette, and the guy in front of me says: "You know, this place is an anomaly." BAM! I knew the title cut and album cover. Let me explain it as just letting musical ideas run free, like fresh paint on canvas.
Birthday Wish: It has been a sheer joy to work with this group with a very creative approach to everything we perform. With Birthday Wish, it was only appropriate to begin the recording with a spontaneous creation expressing this sentiment. Whale Song, on the other hand, begins and centers around one big low note, the serenity, beauty and freedom develop into what seems in one hearing a struggle; as if almost caught and then freed. Then off into the vast blue world and back to that serene yet still magnificent world we know of as the ocean.
Dave Hepler
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