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That's the new one from Manfrotto first and friends the CD commissar de novo and we've been long awaiting this newest release on Concord Records. That's a tune called you and I and we welcome to our studios Manfrotto first and Phil first who have just put this one out. Welcome to the jazz players both of you are really glad to have you in and have a chance to take a look at the new CD through your eyes. Yes hello everyone. Hello. Hello Dad. Yeah people now how do you say the this is one two on that mountain English as you and what's your Portuguese. You know you and you know you and I. Carlos literally wrote this Is he someone you know personally. Yes yes I know him from the very beginning of the bossa nova movement in Brazil. We can say that he's a contemporary. And some other composers of that era. And so on.

And this song was actually recorded a long time ago by Victor Feldman. He was a good friend of ours and he was you know passed away in nineteen eighty six so that he recorded this tune you know and album that he did in which he played everything. I mean he played all the instruments. You know it's like one man band. Because he played piano vibes drums bass and so on. All right. And so that never became really that popular with then the bossa nova repertory. So I thought that it would be a good idea to bring it back to life you know speak. It's a nice tune and I was happy to hear you perform this one project we worked together on in Sarasota a few months ago. People who want to hear your group kind of bring this CD out a CD release party will let them know that it'll be at the Jazz cellar. Coming up pretty soon Sunday August 20th starting

around 7:30 that night and they can hear much of the music will be here in this next hour or so. Having had the chance to talk with you from time to time over the last couple of years as the project came to fruition it's been exciting for me to see it come out from the time that you were talking about getting going up to New York to the studio and talking to the record company to try to get this one to come out the way you wanted it and getting your old friends together. It's been it must be quite a nice thing to see it finally come out and be available to the public where it really really is. As you know they know every time you record a CD. It's it's a full time job. Since the first concept the idea and then to choose the right repertoire and work the arrangements and then you know the musicians and send them copies of the charts and demo

tapes and all of that. In go to this too would you. That's when we have a lot of fun. It's not a working band it's something that you hear you and Phil father and son. Residents of our area for several years now. But otherwise it's bass player and drummer from New York we'll get into your background with those guys. And we also hear Hendrix Merkins on harmonica as on about half of the disc. So this was a project of you sending them your arrangements on tape and coming together for really just a few hours. Yeah right actually we went to New York one day before the first session and we rehearsed You know one of the rehearsal studios in New York. And but by then they were. They all did. Did the homework. So because I sent them the charts as well as the cassette tapes.

What we do is we have a four track at home. Yeah so we. We put all the tunes down and with us you know with our parts and just we you know mimic a drum and bass line and when I mimic what we put in an ensemble. Yeah right. So then we sent him a chart along with the tape of the actual arrangement. So then it's just a matter of running through it with them and you know with the musicianship. These guys are really tremendous I mean that's all they need. Also we trust that they do their homework which they always do. Yeah. And it feels as if we have been playing together for quite a long time. Well you've recorded in the past with this bassist. We'll hear a featured next Paul Sokolov. Let's run the two tributes back to back they. That's the way they are on the CD. One a tribute to Bill Evans and then Phil your composition in dedication to Wes Montgomery I presume the title Where's the Montgomery and the first one is. You must believe in spring that has some wonderful playing by

the bassist who's playing an electric instrument but it he really does a good job of not sounding like it during the opening and closing parts of this. This is your kind of tribute to Bill Evans my father. Yes yes it is. In fact it was basically the same arrangement. Except that played with in the Brazilian atmosphere with the Brazilian groove so to speak and I did this on purpose. This is a nice one. Listen to the bassist Paul Sokolow and the whole band on you must believe in spring. And then we'll hear Phil fests featured on Phil's own composition. Where is Montgomery from the new one commissar de novo ferment photo fest. I was just killing you gotta have it. Yeah that be good yeah yeah. End of Number

Four. You know if you're alive you know. Oh yeah that sounds good. I think she's Tanner outside. OK. Let's fill fests composition were the latest in a long line of song titles that are puns on Wes Montgomery's name. It's nice that you added yours to do it and I like the tune no words Montgomery the age old musical question Phil fest and band photo fest in the studio with us tonight. I like that film. Oh great thank you. Thank you. He I know he's somebody you listen to for a while. Yeah. Is he says something about when I first heard him some about just everything about it aside from his musicality was as sound as the tunes and just you know I like all his era. I mean all is different. I like the stuff he did in late 50s you know straight ahead. I also like his later stuff that a lot of people seem to criticize a lot of jazz fans and I like that stuff too.

To me I like more commercial stuff. But I agree I like everything that a creator Taylor you know. Yeah. So I'm not sure. I mean do it no matter what he's doing. I remember Phil a few years ago asking for any obscure old Wes Montgomery I had laying around that he might not have heard. Yeah so that's nice and you got some of the trademark octave style of his but with just you know it really added the Brazilian thing to I thought was nice. Thanks. Nice combination of the two. Thank you very much. The piece before that featured Paul Sokolov the bass player who Manfrotto you've worked with for quite a while. And it had the bowed bass sound at the beginning and the end which was the beloved arrangement. Phil how did your a string electric ex-player What was he doing. I was about five feet away from him when he did it and all he did he Fred. He would fret the note and then turn his volume knob up. An electric bass and that's kind of a that's not like it's pretty popular technique I guess these days

but he did it in a way where people I mean bass players have heard this and I think it's a bowed bass part. I mean I think it's not right and it's not it's an electric bass guitar. You know and then he turns the volume up like a volume swell. In fact when we did that concert it sounded so that you know we brought it in you know and when he was listening to it which I have then it was the cassette tape you know that Congress sent me and he couldn't believe that it was. Everybody thinks it's really nicely done. So to attribute back to back on the disc and back to back here you must believe in spring in the Bill Evans arrangement and worst month gunnery the new disc called it by its Portuguese title commissar de novo and that doesn't mean anything to most of us but in translation it's to begin again. And in fact it's the Portuguese for a song that is pretty well known in this country the violin song the

island. Yeah. But before it had English lyrics that made it the Islanders. Right right. Thank the ladies were written by men. Yeah yeah. Marilyn and Alan Bergman. Were you familiar with that so we'll get to that song as we go along with you. Are you familiar with commissar de novo as a song. Oh yes yes I was in fact the very first recording of it that I heard was done by a Brazilian singer called cmon cmon has a color. And this was a recording that I had. Well ways back from the late 1970s. So I was very familiar with this song. Yeah you in the last few CDs. Well a couple of albums ago Claudio wrote DD made some nice contributions on the trumpet on a few tunes and on your first Concord release it was Scott Hamilton on several tunes on saxophone coming in to join the group and this time a guy that I've really become a fan of and I know many of our listeners have the harmonica

guy head of Morgans who also has a good vibes player too. Hendrick joined you at the Clearwater Jazz Festival. Actually the last couple of years one year when it was rained indoors jam session but last year verse excessively on the stage. And he's somebody whose records we enjoy around here and he really he's a European that really has a Brazilian soul doesn't he. Yes he really does. In fact you know the very first recording of his I heard ways. A ways back it was in fact played at the brakes during the times when the group Common Ground was a hurricane and I used to go there often and sit in with a band and stuff and a mark No inch wonder had a record of his called some import import that some that it was for. I guess it was when a German label and I I didn't know of him and I heard that harmonica players I know who is this guy

and that and I heard no hinder emergence for the first time and so. A little after that he got his contract with Concord Jazz and he has recorded I think about four CDs now for the Congress as a label. And most of the stuff they has recorded for the label. Has been with Brazilian President style or Brazilian chess now is kind of you know half and half has been playing a lot of American jazz too. Yeah he's a little more straight ahead jazz on his most recent project. Yes and does he live in New York. Yes yes he does. In fact you know every time we go to record in New York we have a great deal of fun with them. This is a very nice guy too married to a Brazilian. Yes married to a briefing here in the U.S. spent several years living there and soaking up the music. So he's featured on exactly half of the tunes on this new release. And we might as well get to one actually the one that opens it.

Let's hear that. And then one of those old mean songs and talk about the influence of Carlos. We'll hear his song Bonita which you don't hear done very much. But first fettuccine Manfrotto. This is a tasty little number. It's who wrote this recipe. Yeah this was their recipe. That's a good way to put it is a friend of mine from Chicago His name is Dick Reynolds. And he's a fine. Jazz pianist leads a group in Chicago it is called She is ill. It's a word from and from Chicago in Brazil. And well he had the house band at Mr. Kellys during the time when when I would say the London house and Mr. Kelly where the main jazz spots in Chicago. So you had the chance to have backed a lot of people including Mel Torme and you know if you want to see. Yeah he's a great musician himself. So he you know heard my

Brazilian Dornan dream which gave him the inspiration then to write this to me which has the same time signature which is of six for time. Here's the opener of the new one from photo fest and friends and with the harmonica Hendrick Merkins joining in on fettuccine Manfrotto. And right from the start this from being the first song on the CD I like the blending of the instruments the way the harmonica fits in with the rest of the band and really present and I sound. Yes I guess our idea here was to exactly create a sound as a result of the blending of these three instruments piano the guitar and the harmonica. More or less in terms of what your touring had you know with his piano fives and guitar that kind of blending in. I think we achieved that.

I know that was a big influence on you early on. Oh yes it was yeah. I always love that sound in fact when I first started playing anything that was jazz oriented that was what I did you know I got old George Shearing records on the MGM and all those yellow yellow label records. Those 10 inches LP some of them were even in 78 You know you're showing your age now. Well I should have. I have that right. But it's a nice idea. I like the fact that shearing was really the first big inspiration to you in Brazil as a teenager and you've become pretty good friends. Yes I know right. Right. So that's that's another nice thing about it is that with that influence here is the way the CD starts. OK. Well that influence here is the way the CD starts with fettuccini men Freddo and that instrumental blending with Hendrik Merkins on the harmonica. That's one of the Antonio Carlos Jobim tunes there are two on the new release commissar de

novo by Manfrotto fest. You're tuned to the sound of jazz on the Saturday night from W USF Tampa St. Petersburg and WSF PFM Fort Myers and Naples Glad you're with us. Manfrotto and Phil feste are with us to celebrate the release of this new CD. Incidentally it will remind you again the CD release party will be at the Jazz cellar on the 20th that's a Sunday night the 20th of August. And you guys will also be at the jet at the Jazz corner in Lakeland early in September I guess right. Right right. That's going to be on the 8th. It was 7 8 I think day and night and Friday and Saturday whatever that is right. I'm so glad that you got Hendrick merch and I liked Hendrick. When I first ran into him going to sitting in a little place in New York once a few years ago and then when he came down here a couple of times to work with you in Clearwater and Hendrick really adds nicely to the sound that you have developed over the years we heard him on both those fettuccine Manfrotto first and then Bonita featured there are two of the

I guess about six pieces that feature Hendrick Merkins feel you were on acoustic guitar on this one. You most often an electric guitar on your every day playing and on most of this disc. I like the sound you have on thank you. In this day and age of tributes to beam it seems like there's a new one out all the time now. I felt for the help and the authenticity. What a bossa nova kind of started on acoustic guitar. A lot of when you say dead. Yeah right that's absolutely in fact you know. So to give it that effect the ground correct that about that Jon job. Company which became the main pattern you know. Coming guitar and bossa nova he was roping was certainly the grand master of Brazilian music. It goes without saying I guess and actually you were in the studio in New York just a few

weeks after he passed away. Yeah right. Yeah he passed away sometime last December. Yeah and we did this recording early January really generally right. You stayed in touch to some degree with being over the years. Yeah. Well not in the last few years but Exactly. But I mean the last time I talked to him it was when I recorded jungle cat because then I recorded two of his songs. I always have recorded one or two of his songs in to all my CDs. I figure that I have recorded about eight of them so far. And and jungle cat I recorded. And then when I was a I don't know more blues. Yeah. Yeah so this was done especially I guess as a tribute have him having just passed away there and we'll hear next how insensitive one of the most

often done will be in to us. Speaking of your connections with great Brazilian musicians I want to talk a little about the man behind the drums who's really lends quite a nice touch to your music you import signo go way back or yes right ways back yeah. We we know each other from Brazil and protein has been living in New York now for the last say 26 years or so and he happens to be from the same state in Brazil where we are from. Which is which is called the Rio Grande meaning big river from the south. And then he is in fact I have I have been having port you know all of my CDs. You know it's been this is my fourth one. I always have been having the same rhythm section The only difference is that this time we didn't have Seattle but we're going to finished with us on the radio and the CD

kind of puts a little different light on things in using more of your own acoustic piano and different arrangements it's a little different. Look at your. Yes yes. Well I am very happy with this too because you know here I have. A few numbers and then add quartet numbers guitar and then I have the quintet numbers and then also I since I enjoy playing American jazz a lot too so I have tunes such as you must believe in spring as a tribute to Bill Evans and I also have Lush Life one of the classics from Billy Strayhorn. Which is a tune that I always enjoy playing it really only one and a half or two of your own compositions a couple of which we haven't even gotten to yet but we will. Phil you're on acoustic guitar on the others will be into it as well. Alan sensitive Yeah right. Yeah like you said that's one of the most played tunes and I I do it myself when I'm out doing my thing and

I really have to say the arrangement. My father came up with this unbelievable and you know it's a different key than than what normal people do and just normal people you know people who were abnormal. So now but. I just decided that acoustic guitar was the obvious choice for the sonic quality it provides. And yeah. And of corroborating what Phil is saying is like because in the book they're in the good book are good fakebook. So that is written in D Minor and we do it in B minor in fact which is the original key that you're being wrote this song. Oh really. Yeah he was pretty specific about what he liked how he wanted his tones done as I understood Yes yes he was. Yeah well I think this always happens when the composer is a musician too. You know there are many composers when necessary players now and then why there are some composers that need some help from

the players I guess to fix their tunes but I mean one of the composers is also a musician which I think in this case and of course being as so then he has very specific ideas about how he wants his tunes to be played in harmonized and so on. After this one we'll hear Hendrik Merkins joining in once again for another Brazilian master's composition. Mr. Nuss the Mentos of our crews which is actually the last piece on the disc will hear a First the visual being how insensitive again Manfrotto fest in the band. Vera Cruz is one of the oft done songs by Milton Nascimento That's a nice version with Hendrik Merkins again on the band and Manfrotto first from the new release which we're spotlighting here at 90 jazz place tonight. Glad to have you with us. I'm Bob Seymour with Manfrotto first and Phil first celebrating the release of this new one from them we've waited almost two and a half years since the

last one. And I've always been such a huge fan of Milton Nascimento he seems to me such a special artist. I remember those remember I think seeing a photograph of you with him when he played in Gainesville a couple of your I was backstage. Yeah yeah. So you know you have some personal connection with the the great Nascimento. Yeah right in fact I know Milton since the very beginning of his career you know he was he came into the scene. I say the main spotlight in the Brazilian music. Well as around the last year I lived in Brazil before I moved to the United States which was around 1066 so and then in 1968 he recorded his first album with the arrangements by El Mirador data and media data. You know later on became known by his own recordings or in that recording which was done for them records. I think now he's has been released in

in a CD form but down it was really a great home he had to know some of his best compositions including Vera Cruz bridges and a bunch of others from that interview and then I always think of the one he did with Wayne Shorter to know you know these are native dancers right. Well you know that was really he's considered to be his very own fish introduction I guess to a nice place for us in the States at least it was right. That was that was a very nice although I think it was done around one thousand seventy four 73 you know. I was there was the time I gave that album to anybody I owed a favor to or wanted to thank them I'd give them that I was so happy later to see it come out on CD not Samantha and Wayne Shorter collaboration. She is such a special artist to do his songs on your own. Fill in your own group at all. No as of right now I'm not working. Working on that as a matter of fact. Being at Vera Cruz and already know

that. Yeah but yeah I'm planning on doing a lot of melt and that that is definitely in the plans. Yeah and I also recorded bridges on the jungle cat. That's right yeah yeah. Tomorrow night when I'm at Coconuts. Louis Chavez is going to be there for real. Oh really the spirit of this group is there like one of the biggest longest lasting jazz groups in Brazil. He'll be in the area. Just yes. Yeah he came in last Thursday and he's going to be I'll be doing my thing with David Moss and Patrick bedizened and Craig but he and my father will be sitting in. All right I need to meet him and he is a legend who has played with everybody. So he writes very simple trio has a very nice I'll do some Milton tomorrow night. Yes that's what I'm getting at this is the Choctaw coconuts on Sand Key There are a few of the rugged beats right for the summer oh that's the whole feel fest group each Sunday that's from 6:00 I'll be there every

Sunday till I tell ee tell tell 96 All right. Yeah so I've heard that's going on it's not nice outdoor. Yes they want they're really pushing jazz and you know that's really great and I jest bought but the guy's a legend so. That's great yeah. Unfamiliar to most of us I've heard of them what does he play. He's a he's a basis to disagree. So you'll have him and Patrick medicine both and they'll be doing it. Yeah those and those in our area who don't know Patrick better yet should because he is quite a bassist. Yeah. Electric bass is to play with acoustic alchemy for some time and often works with you you both railing. He works with everybody he works at the Reiner brothers and Fred Johnson Shumate all the all the he's like First Call everybody loves to work with them and they can play all the old styles everybody just that's great. Coming up later tonight we have trombone Madness coming up at midnight it's for Queens

jazz night from Las Vegas. Every week at 12:00 with tonight Carl Funtown and Bill Watrous there will be some fireworks on the slip horns tonight with those guys and jazz of course continues coming your way all night long. We haven't heard one of your original tunes yet which is part of the story on the CD is that it's largely other people's standards and some Brazilian standards. The rest is a piece that it's about time you recorded I guess meant for you because everybody else has it. Your friend Howard Levy helped write the song I want to hear that he was also people who know Howard Levy as the harmonica and keyboard guy with Bela Fleck band for several years. They recorded this Bucky toad or a vera recorded it when Howard was in his band and then Dizzy Gillespie United Nation orchestra recorded it live when Paquito was on that band featuring five. So the tune has gotten around hasn't it. Yeah it has. How did

service to come about with you and Howard. Well that was really one of those very interesting things I was doing some work in Chicago. We were living in St. Paul Minnesota and I was working for one of the new holiday ends in Madison Illinois which is very south of Chicago most in the Indiana border there and then. Howard said well listen I have some free time in a studio here. Why don't I go together to it and do a few a few tunes and stuff it was Howard myself and hope I had was one of my drummers from Chicago you know. So you know it's going to be playing the percussion in that so I just tried the piano which was a nice seven footer in that so I was like you like in the piano a lot in that you know just coming out with some some ideas when you're trying to instrument in that. So playing whatever comes to your mind. And I was playing a few chords and wrens here and there in coming up with the first

ideas for the melody of the tune and that so then Howard joined me and I started started completing some of those ideas and everything so we liked it so much and it was said why don't we record this and that. So it was a tune that we wrote you know about five minutes or so. All right. Well what led you to the title song rest. Well rest a means serenade because because the nature of the tune being such of. I would say a Brazilian waltz right thing which was a reminder of the type of music that I once played as serenade years back in Brazil. You know the type of music that you play under your. Yeah. Say your girlfriend's window or something. You know the fact that when I told this story to the Americans it said Well that would be very hard for me because

I live on the 10th floor. Back with the band here playing loud I guess because the 10th floor and feel your back on guitar on this one rest is the first of the original compositions by man photo fest here from the new one commissar de novo. And I let it flow until. There was a one of a few songs on the new release that were featuring the night at 90 jazz place by Manfrotto fest that is just pared down to a trio and a lovely treatment of Lush Life and interesting treatment the kind of like you must believe in spring where it's the theme statement beginning at end and with a little bit of Brazilian swing of the ballad in the middle. Always been one of my favorite songs I know I'm not alone there are such I mean it is one of my favorites. Do you have particular versions you have

come to like over the years of the song that have drawn you to it. Yeah right do I have to be classy when all of the versions that you don't hear much much of it anymore if it wasn't done by Fener snowboards Jr. that you know it's a piano Phineas newborns a piano player you don't hear often enough. Yeah right I know piano players always talk about how great they think he is he had had some chops. It was amazing. But what he did that was really interesting and this tune was that he used the very beginning of the second movement of this song that teen written by Maurice Ravel as the interval for the tune. You know they called my attention quite a good chunk of it. You must have liked that piece a lot. He does it very well the it's original form the beginning of the second movement and then he gets into the tune itself and so of course you know I like the way you know that Nat

King Cole did it too. John Hartman course that's or a version that people become a classic has been just haven't been reissued we're hearing a little more around here is the Johnny Johnny Hartman turning our cold right. Yeah it's a great song Lush Life and we preceded that with the rest with Hendrik Morgan's playing up to the tenth floor window there on harmonica and guitar. The others again Paul Sokolov bass and the drummer reporting you know the same rhythm section that you guys have used for several recordings now Manfrotto first and fill first with us. And Kommissar de novo the Portuguese title which means to begin again on this newest release. I think the people of Tampa Bay need to know who wrote the liner notes. Well sure let me let me just you know. I'd like to announce Bob Seymour wrote the liner notes.

Actually I'm such a loner no reader I actually had the experience that I'm always checking to find out something I didn't know or something I actually had the experience that a day of opening this and glancing at the liner notes forgetting that I've seen them before. It was I was a really honored to be asked. Of course he was very honored to have you. Contrary to public belief that's not me on the cover. It is a real tragedy both the cover it looks like trouble. Yeah yeah. And folks you have to go buy the disc or win one from 92 as a place to see what he means but it does look like a travel poster. It's an attractive package and I hope you sell a million of them and that it goes way up the charts it sure deserves to. Just keep our fingers crossed. Again the CD release party the official one will be at the newly reopened jazz or an evil or city that's coming up on Sunday the 20th of August. Two weeks away I guess yeah. And on a Sunday night the Jazz cellar is not usually open but they are opening for special occasions and that

will certainly be one that starts at 7:30 that night. Sunday the 20th of August. You're also doing I know we have some listeners on at ninety point one ninety point one shoots right across the Everglades toward Miami and people in southeast Florida listen to us from time to time. And you're doing specks in Coconut Grove release party on. Yes this is going to be on the 13th Sunday next Sunday that yeah next Sunday. And it's going to be at 3 p.m. at the specialty called Grand store spanks which as I understand it's a new one. All right. Coconut Grove in-store appearance they're going to we're going to play right dual dual is going to be a do you know enjoy an in-store and then it's the former. Yeah I've seen you I've seen you do that from time to time a few times and you actually played our open house here at our studios when I was not able to be there

but I heard such great reports. Actually you had three pieces are going to pieces right. We had on the bass. Yeah I heard heard great reports even though I was out of town. How things went for they are open house that day and I know many of our listeners were able to come by and hear you and meet you at that time. Yeah we do we had a great time. What shall we hear next maybe. Well we just finished lush lush life. Morning has always been a favorite. Just a glance when I first saw what you were doing on here is so many old favorites like the nuts a mental song the island by Yvonne Lynn's which we have yet to get to and this one written by Clara Fisher who is an American but he sure has always had that Brazilian Latin thing happening. Yeah that very well yeah yeah. And this is kind of a combination of salsa in Brazilian style.

Is this a piece that's been in your repertoire for a while. Yeah it has been Yeah. I always played this tune since I first heard it ways back when I still was living in L.A. I fell in love with the tune. Yeah. So it's a lot of it's a lot of fun to play it. And I I wrote I actually just bring bring up the fact here that we did a gaited this tune to a dear friend of ours here. Mr. Pender a mentor of Ellis Pedro wanted this one to be on the recording and he got his work you notice when he got it. Good friend of jazz in the area and a friend of both of ours and it's back on harmonica and feel your own electric guitar on there. Yes I am. Clara Fisher's tune. Morning and we'll go on from there more from the new one from Manfrotto fest here on W. USF Tampa St. Petersburg NWS FP Fort Myers and Naples.

There is the more or less title song from Manfrotto fest you just this month photos Karl Haas impression too it was too bad we didn't have the microphone open. He is a big fan and we should point out highly classically trained and listens as much here in the daytime as he does late at night I know that. Anyhow that was the island which you call commissar. How is my Portuguese is doing pretty good. To begin again I love the sound of Portuguese I wish I had learned to speak it to begin again is the English translation of that. But then it had an English lyric written to it and it became really one of the most often played and recorded Brazilian songs and a real modern standard as the island. Even if people don't know the island I think when they hear the melody it's familiar to people who listen much to jazz or the radio at all

because it is so popular and I'm glad you've recorded this. Oh yes. So am I. I always wanted to do this song. Well this is one of the differences between this project that you're going to project and my previous ones because in my previous CD such as a Brazilian a jungle cat and even. Often and I did quite a few originals this time I decided that I wanted to play some of the some of my favorite standards in Americans. And so. Your lovely wife and mother Lily often has collaborated with you on those originals on the last one. She doesn't get any royalties on this new one for her writing. Yes unfortunately not on this one. Yeah but you sure chose some nice tunes we heard before the Yvonne Lynn song one by Clara Fisher mourning another favorite of many people. And

Pedro made you record that one on this new one man photo fest. And Phil first on the band again Hendrick Merkins. Was heard on morning and 14 YO the drummer and Paul Sokolow on the base not a working band but I think people would be surprised hearing this disc that you guys only see each other one day yours something like this. But it was a good time in the sessions were able to have some fun. Well yes unless we did in fact you know in the very last Actually we had three we were three double sessions for the whole album. I think it was actually it was it was two sessions two sessions Oh I'm sorry you have two sessions it was everything was two or three takes right out of the next year or so. But then in the last day of the recording there and even if we went to a Brazilian restaurant and they're around 40 say Street and had a lot of fun. And so then you

just came back on the Sunday So Saturday afternoon Hendrick took us to a very nice Brazilian restaurant in Newark New Jersey you know. Lovely river Yeah right there was kind of I don't call Sure ask which is specialized in Brazilian barbecue. You know southern Brazilian barbecue style so that Hendrick knew about it so we had that we had the opportunity to socialize and had some fun in a southern Brazilian specialty musta felt right at home. Oh yes definitely. In fact the place is owned by a fellow from Porto Alegre my hometown. So that's great yeah. You know all the right recipes. We're very happy to have Manfrotto first and Phil first living Oh I guess about seven or eight years now we are here in our area actually in Palm Harbor Florida. And the opportunity here you play from time to time and it's time to remind you your tune tonight Ejaz place the place for jazz every night is WSF P Fort Myers and Naples and W. USF Tampa St. Petersburg. I'm

Bob Seymour and coming up at midnight tonight it's trombone madness Bill Watrous and Carl Funtown are two real virtuoso trombonist will be playing making some fireworks for an hour live. You were saying you had the chance to share the stage and do some playing with coral fountain. Yes we did in fact you know a couple of years ago. With my trio was the opening act for one of the evenings at they said a sort of Jazz Festival at the venue easel performing arts center in then Carl Fontana played a number with us. I had my trio then with David Hartman and Martin which were under the bass and so we had a lot of fun. He's quite a player as Oh yes definitely is a very nice guy too and I'm also very familiar with Brazilian jest to participate in many of the recordings as in Jazz out there in L.A.. But he's a wonderful player. Though the CD release party again to officially celebrate the release of commissar de

novo will be at the Jazz cellar Sunday August 20th. Folks in the Lakeland area will welcome you to the Jazz corner. September 8th and 9th on Friday and Saturday nights there at that fairly new spot for jazz in Lakeland and tomorrow night. Phil first trio but meant for you you'll be sitting in as well tomorrow. Oh yes yeah now in the quartet. Dave Moss is officially on board all right. Yeah. And you said from trios a trio Simba. Oh yeah from sympatry Oh yes I mean you will always Travis bass player from Brazil is going to be here with us so we're going to be one in a lifetime chance to see this man. That's at the every Sunday night but more more than usual tomorrow this Sunday night at Chacha coconuts on Sand Key that's an early date six till 10 or so you play there. Yeah. Yes I do. Six to ten and I might add that Joe the manager there is getting

more than he bargained for. That's right. Well thank you both for coming in. And as I say it's having had the chance to talk to you from time to time and see this project come to fruition it's exciting for me to to see commissar de novo come out and all the best with it. Well we thank you very much for this wonderful opportunity to get in touch with your listeners you're there so you also thank you very much for the wonderful job this matters. You have written the liner notes on this CD too. It's really a pleasure it was a pleasure once it was finally done. And let's go out on another. Another of your originals I guess is the one thing we haven't heard so far. You have a few I've seen you write a few things where you get into let's see but there's a few bus a blues floating around and now there's a whole Brazilian diverter Mentos Right right.

Yeah as we were talking before I do know about my wife you know that she doesn't have any to notice right about I mean we have we have quite a few in the next projects that we are planning here for the future yeah. So this one is called Brazilian defect to mentor number two because the number one I recorded it down on the brass and Yanna CD for the DMP So this is now number two and it features quite a bit of petunias drumming to it like it's a tune that has a phrase and you know it goes like a couple of bars and then answered by drums more or less like cute. You know they're too cute. Oh yeah. Featured drummers that features drummers quite a bit. It's known as that type of tune except with Brazilian. Again one photo fest guitarist Phil first of all cycle up 14 yo and Hendrick Merkins on harmonica and his Brazilian diverter mentor Number Two Thanks again to both of you for coming by. Thank you Bob.