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

["Rob Paparozzi" <Chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Bob,

I played the melody with the Horns in 2nd position on a C harp....then I 
soloed over the outro....


Rob P
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob McGraw" <harpbob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rob Paparozzi" <Chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "harp-l harp-l" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Summer in the City,-)


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