September 4. 3rd rehearsal day with my Cuban Band. Day went very well. The addition of drum kit and some decent sounding cymbals is wonderful. The Cuban musicians are sounding awesome together. They are quite complimentary of my tunes, memorise…
September 3. After listening to the recording I made of yesterday’s rehearsal I have decided to add a cuban drum set player to the band. The rehearsal was missing good cymbals and a few other bits and pieces. Have also…
September 2. 1st rehearsal today with my Cuban band. Very excited!!!! Taxi picked up all musicians and instruments and delivered to studio. It turns out the woman in charge of EGREM studio had made sure the main studio was available…
September 1. Changuito came over to hang, hes been listening to the cd demo i gave him intently. He has suggested altering a couple of rhythms in my tunes in order to “cubanify” them. He’s excited about the project. Met…
August 31. Walked to hotel nacionale to Print out special piano parts for one of my pieces. I wanted to find somewhere to buy some blank printing paper to give as a gift to Jacinto. I noticed his supplies were…
August 29. At noon today I got to meet most of the band that I will be recording with and discussed a little about each tune. I managed to have recordings of most of the tracks for the musicians to…
