Re: [Harp-L] Summer in the City,-)

[Bob McGraw <harpbob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cool! Rob, what did you play on "Birdland"? By that I mean did you  
solo, play a part, the melody, etc? Position?
WVa Bob

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On Jun 26, 2010, at 2:11 PM, "Rob Paparozzi" <Chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> Yesterday afternoon I did a session for Bassist Chuck Rainey'  
> forthcoming CD. Chuck has played on Sanford and Son and Baretta to  
> King Curtis, Aretha and Steely Dan. I played some diatonic on a  
> funky instrumental....I used my chrom on the interlude section for a  
> neat descending chromatic line....the I headed up to  
> Birdland...........
>
> Some Cool Pix from our Soldout show at Birdland in NYC last night,  
> I'm doing this gig a year now and totally knocked out by the  
> Birdland Big Band! We closed the show with Weather Report's  
> 'Birdland' and I played it on a C Diatonic.....I played Herbie  
> Hancock's 'Butterfly'
> on Chromatic and an assortment of other cool big band charts. we had  
> a ball!
>
> I don't sing on this gig, but they asked me if I could surprise the  
> audience with a Vocal, I used my audix fireball V and it worked just  
> fine!
>
>
> Click on the 47 Birdland 6-24-10 gallery
>
> http://gallery.me.com/rlips
>
> best,
> Rob Paparozzi