Shearer, Jim: Secret Frets: Jim Shearer & Friends With Strings - COMPACT DISCS

Shearer, Jim: Secret Frets: Jim Shearer & Friends With Strings - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Secret Frets: Jim Shearer & Friends With Strings Artist: Shearer, Jim Label: Summit Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 099402742922 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2019 03 22 Number of Discs: 1 It all started with a pick up band that came together to focus on the music of Django Reinhardt. The band went through several permutations of name, including the unwieldy "Hot Club of the Southwest" and the even more unpronounceable "Djangology," which

Title: Secret Frets: Jim Shearer & Friends With Strings
Artist: Shearer, Jim
Label: Summit Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 099402742922
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2019-03-22
Number of Discs: 1

It all started with a pick-up band that came together to focus on the music of Django Reinhardt. The band went through several permutations of name, including the unwieldy "Hot Club of the Southwest" and the even more unpronounceable "Djangology," which was finally shorted to simply "Django." The group was somewhat unusual to say the least. It featured Steve Smith, mandolin; Gordon Butler, violin; Joseph Mancilla, acoustic rhythm guitar; Curt Warren, electric arch-top guitar; and Jim Shearer, tuba and vocals. The band played a series of shows, festivals, and club dates during the 1990s, which culminated with the band recording most of the tracks featured on this current project. The sessions were set, and they were recorded to two DA-88 ADAT machines (early multi-track digital recording equipment) at Goldust Recording Studio in Las Cruces. As is so often the case, the funding was not enough to complete the project, so the tapes went on the shelf in a half mixed and unmastered state. Time passed, the musicians went on to other projects, and the sessions were largely forgotten, except for a few dusty cassette tapes of rough mixes showing "what might have been." n 2016, Steve Smith was working at Goldust Studio on another project, and owner/engineer Emmit Brooks showed Steve some new techniques he had developed to move material out of the old ADAT format into a modern digital editing program called "Digital Performer," an industry standard for today's recording needs. Some of the tracks he transferred included material from the old Django sessions. The spark was reignited and the project completed!

Tracks:
1.1 Tchavolo Swing
1.2 Darkness on the Delta
1.3 Lucky Southern
1.4 Little Rock Getaway
1.5 Recompense
1.6 Double Concerto in D Minor, Mov't 1, BWV 1043
1.7 Douce Ambiance (Sweet Atmosphere)
1.8 Djangology
1.9 Petite Fleur (Little Flower)
1.10 Sweet Georgia Brown
1.11 Grackle
1.12 My One and Only Love
1.13 Hungry Man

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