Aprašymas
Catalog No: SMT-010
Issued on CD as well as pure analog vinyl with liner notes by Tom Callens, ‘Red Label: Hommage to Lester Young & the Basie-Ites’ was recorded entirely live in one room with a multitrack setup (using multiple microphones as opposed to one central microphone), mixed live on the fly to two-track analog tape and without use of any computer. The vinyl was mastered and cut from tape in Dublin using a fully analog signal path, the process that was used before the coming of digital audio.
The fourteen tracks are a selection of tunes that are related to Lester Young and the Count Basie groups, such as the first ever track that Lester recorded at the age of 27, ‘Shoe Shine Boy’, or his own compositions ‘Tickle Toe’, ‘Lester’s Be-Bop Boogie’ and ‘Ad-Lib Blues’; the famous Fletcher Henderson arrangement of ‘King Porter Stomp’ that every big band like the Count Basie Orchestra or the Benny Goodman Orchestra had to play; the famous Basie hit ‘One O’Clock Jump’ and the songs we know from Billie Holiday ‘Easy Living’ and ‘My Man’ sung on this record by guest vocalist Delphine Gardin.
Since its appearance in 2018 it sold to an international audience of jazz lovers and dancers, met with positive reviews and is sometimes used in international dance battles, teachings and choreographies.
Released November 2, 2018
Frederik Van den Berghe – drums
Sam Gerstmans – bass
Victor da Costa – guitar
Luk Vermeir – piano
Hans Bossuyt – trumpet
David Lukács – clarinet, tenor sax
Tom Callens – tenor sax, vocal
Delphine Gardin – vocal
Bart Vervaeck – rhythm guitar
Produced by Tom Callens
Recorded 7, 8, 11 March 2018 at Robot Studios, Gent – Belgium
Engineer, tape-op, mix: Pieterjan Coppejans
Mastering for CD: Uwe Teichert at Elektropolis, Brussels – Belgium
Analog mastering & lacquer cutting: Aidan Foley, Hayley Connolly at Masterlabs, Dublin – Ireland
Lacquer processing and vinyl pressing: GZ Media, Loděnice – Czech Republic
Photo by Grégoire Verbeke
Artwork design by Tom Callens, executed by Carl Compernolle – Animus Design