Spontaneous group composition that remains melodically and harmonically expressive.

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JAZZ: Free Jazz, NEW AGE: Ambient



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Upon conception of documenting the LAQT project, I certainly didnât think the nights I recorded with one stereo mic into my laptop would be âitâ. However, after reviewing all recordings of this group - live and studio â over the course of 2005, it became obvious that these were indeed the performances that had to be documented.

This recording is completely organic.
Youâll hear everything you normally hear when you go see a live band in a club or café.
Thereâs the âas isâ mix of the players on each instrument with the static room configuration, but thereâs also people chattering & laughing, waitresses taking orders, the cash register, blenders, etc.

But mostly what youâll hear is spontaneous composition in real time. And really, isnât that the point?

The music.

Itâs become a standard somewhat for musicians to âbring the studio to the stageâ to record a âliveâ album. To me it sounds like a studio record anyway because you go through the same protocols - all that separating and miking, etc.
It is my opinion that when you play back this type of recording youâre not hearing what the band actually âsoundedâ like on the night it was recorded. It could have been done anywhere.
For example, a drummerâs cymbals just sound different when youâre sitting out in the audience than they sound being picked up from overhead mics, processed through a mixer, then projected through speakers. Sure itâs the best way to record cymbals but it just isnât the way itâs heard out front.

But such is the way of technology. Everything CAN be perfect if we want it to be and it seems we are more interested in seeking out that sonic perfection than using a great performance that just happened to go down the night a single mic was used to record - putting the cart before the horse in other words.
I will always pick an ok recording of a great performance over vice-versa.
When I listen to one of my old live Coltrane records I donât hear anything but the music anyway.

There could have been NO recording at all - you know, âthe one that got awayâ.

Nobody really knows what night the âgreatâ performance is going to happen. We can have the best well rehearsed players with arrangements and recording engineers with all the best available tech gear ready on the night of the big recording, but that doesnât mean the recording is going to be the one that makes us say, âTHATâS IT!â

All that saidâ¦
I would of course prefer a state of the art recording of an exemplary live performance. And in a perfect world that would always be the case, BUT as a listener, after you experience this record I think youâll be glad this series of performances didnât âget awayâ

no matter how it was recorded.