Big Music in a Small Room
Chaise Lounge will be appearing
at Big Music in a Small Room
The Rooster’s Wife @Sanhills Community College
in Pinehurst NC on Nov 13th
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Back at Cue Studios
Here is Charlie in the studio. Glockenspiel and accordion are surefire signifiers that we’re working on another Christmas album!
Chaise Lounge: starting a new Christmas album!
We are back at Cue Recording Studios and putting together our new Xmas CD. It will have titles like: “Who Doesn’t Like Christmas” and “A Not So Silent Night.” An incredible a capella choir, BRIDGE, is going to provide a layer of sound never before heard on a Chaise Lounge CD. Right now, we are just completing the rhythm tracks. Stay tuned.
Snow Day!
As we Mid-Atlantic types huddle & cuddle inside while the world outside turns white, it’s nice to remember how much we once loved a good snow day!
(“Once” as in oh, about five snowstorms ago…)
Lorton On Stairs Hero Slide
Thoughts on the Duke (by Charlie)
Terry Teachout has a new book on Duke Ellington called Duke. His take on The Duke is that the man’s true genius lay in being able to synthesize all the contributions of his band and codify them into songs, arrangements and compositions. (These, he went on to copyright mostly in his own name.) And that one of his greatest talents was that of being a bandleader. The Duke managed to keep the same band together for about 50 years! I think that could also be said of Miles Davis, BTW. He, too, was a visionary bandleader. This is a job that is not taught in conservatories. I’m not even sure “bandleader” counts as being an official job. But it might be a calling.
Chaise Lounge has been together for fifteen years. We definitely needed to start earlier to have a shot at anything like Duke Ellington’s run. But we have a great streak going.
– Charlie