Number 1 smooth jazz tune

[Randy walker]

if you go to www.johnniems.com and click on his music, the cd is called Try This On, there should be samples of all the tunes there.

[blake1]

Really nice to hear you are accomplishing what you've sought out to do Randy. Keep going. Keep going...
Blake [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

[Randy walker]

It's tough at times. This year was really slow for live work, but made it up on the studio side. Been doing htis since I graduated MI in '84, this is all I ever wanted from life and have been lucky is all I can say.

[royerin]

Nice job yet again Randy. [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

[FuseU1]

Kewl beanz, Randman...

Another funny thing [a neat little story] - I noticed that the #2 slot is occupied by saxist Richard Elliot [formerly Tower of Power]... Richard's drummer is great player [& all-around nice guy] Dave Reinhardt, who lives a stones throw from me [& who's played w/ Rick Braun also, who's also on that airplay chart]... used to go see him in local clubs & sat in a few times back in the late 80's/early 90's [along w/ several other great drummers in the area who've also gone on to greater fame] - "tag-team drumming" we'd call it... another interesting story...
We all used to hang out & check it out, sometimes sit it...
Dave would actually let me tape him live at certain gigs back at that time/"in the day," so that i could get a better grasp on where he was coming from conceptually... again, he was & still is one the best of [if not the best] drummers in town... great player... Jeff Berlin [& also Mike Scaglione, sax & bass from Gloria Estefan/Miami Sound Machine] used to come in frequently & play w/ Dave in the "IOU Band," & w/ he & his keyboardist brother Ron's band, the "Cave Men" [Ron's also still w/ Elliot last i checked]... both bro's are fine players...

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 17, 2003 11:56 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>

[Randy walker]

welcome back Fuse.

[FuseU1]

Thx, RW - glad to be back in company of this calibre [img]cool.gif[/img]

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 20, 2003 04:09 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>

[ptrack]

Mr.Magic,Chameleon,Friends and Strangers...

[Randy walker]

Thank you T!

[ladanny]

Hey, I just played Mr. Magic on a gig! That's a FUN tune to use for chorus solo-ing! My approach was to break down the A Section with up beats on the hihat, cross stick on 4, kick on 1, with a few kick accents on the jump. Really fun.