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After Hours in the Big City


An alto saxophonist, guitarist, and keyboard player walk into a bar at closing time. The bartender locks the door, pulls the shades, turns off all outside lights, brings up a couple of cases of beer and the guys jam with members of the house band. This is a jam they put down just prior to getting totally drunk.

BiaB style = City Night SW16 Smooth Jazz
Tempo = 75

I deleted the guitar track
Bass = Ample Bass - YingYang
Drums = SSD5 DeLuxe 2 - Deluxe Rock 5
Piano = Presonus-XT Presence - Rhodes Ballad - I slightly modified this track
Strings = Kontakt - Cupid's Arrow
I am playing the guitar - Jay Turser Jazz Box
And via my wind controller - Swan Alto Sax and Kontakt Trumpet Master


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Can I have the address of that bar.
Funny thing I'm in the middle of writing a drinking song as well.
Nicely done Mario. Plenty of light and shade.
Great composition. Rob4580

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Will you slow down, man ... some of us need to catch up with you!!! :-)

SUPERB. So laid back ... just relaxed and enjoyed. All I need now is a drink by my side and I'm ready to listen to it again ... :-)

It's a privilege to hear your stuff, but do give the rest of us a fighting chance every now and then, eh? ;-) Actually, don't, of course ... I want to continue to hear you at your best.

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Originally Posted By: Rob4580
Can I have the address of that bar.
Funny thing I'm in the middle of writing a drinking song as well.
Nicely done Mario. Plenty of light and shade.
Great composition. Rob4580


I wish I knew the address myself! Thanx for those very nice comments.


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Originally Posted By: musician17
Will you slow down, man ... some of us need to catch up with you!!! :-)

SUPERB. So laid back ... just relaxed and enjoyed. All I need now is a drink by my side and I'm ready to listen to it again ... :-)

It's a privilege to hear your stuff, but do give the rest of us a fighting chance every now and then, eh? ;-) Actually, don't, of course ... I want to continue to hear you at your best.


Thanx for this superb review. I had a little time as all of us have been under quarantine for the last 2 weeks. Quarantine is over but it is so easy to compose songs with BiaB so who knows when the next one will come along.


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This is an excellent track from a bar that I would very much like to know the location of. smile

Well produced and inspiring to listen too. You never disappoint, Mario!

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Originally Posted By: Will Josef
This is an excellent track from a bar that I would very much like to know the location of. smile

Well produced and inspiring to listen too. You never disappoint, Mario!

Will


Will, back in the days I knew a few of them but they are long gone, as my ability to stay up that late!

Thanx for the kind review.


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Originally Posted By: MarioD
I deleted the guitar track

That made me laugh! laugh

I get the feeling you post these to show that MIDI can still be competitive with RealTracks. wink

And... you're right.

Smooth and easy listening. Everything sounds good to me!


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Top notch write and performance. Everything sits right in place - Your arrangements and productions are always spot on. Enjoyed my listen.


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Very nice, Mario!

Love the sax and trumpet via the wind controller. And the guitar too of course wink

Good arrangement and mix.

Enjoyed!

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Smooth and easy listening underneath, and a little tipsy. But those two-horn duet lines are pretty dang boozy. Smile-inducing stuff and had me "there".


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Well done, Mario.

Mix is excellent. That ample bass sounds great. Nice job on the wind controller.

A good listen.

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Originally Posted By: dcuny
Originally Posted By: MarioD
I deleted the guitar track

That made me laugh! laugh

I get the feeling you post these to show that MIDI can still be competitive with RealTracks. wink

And... you're right.

Smooth and easy listening. Everything sounds good to me!



Thanx David.

I have been working with MIDI since the early 1980's. I have more fun working in MIDI and playing my instruments then cutting and pasting audio. I'm not knocking anyone who does that its just not my thing.

I am glad that people think MIDI can be competitive to RTs. They both have there places.


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Originally Posted By: Charlie Fogle
Top notch write and performance. Everything sits right in place - Your arrangements and productions are always spot on. Enjoyed my listen.


Thanx so much Charlie for those kind words.


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Originally Posted By: BlueAttitude
Very nice, Mario!

Love the sax and trumpet via the wind controller. And the guitar too of course wink

Good arrangement and mix.

Enjoyed!


Thanx for the kind review. I am still trying to learn that wind controller.


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Originally Posted By: Tangmo
Smooth and easy listening underneath, and a little tipsy. But those two-horn duet lines are pretty dang boozy. Smile-inducing stuff and had me "there".


I'm glad that you enjoyed this little jam.


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Originally Posted By: floyd jane
Well done, Mario.

Mix is excellent. That ample bass sounds great. Nice job on the wind controller.

A good listen.

fj


Thanx so much Floyd. A couple of years ago I won all of Ample's basses. They all sound great. I'm glad that I won them as I surely couldn't afford all of them!


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You captured the mood you described perfectly. Nice arrangement. Nice mix. Nice backing band too.

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Oh, man, I want a job with that house band. Great sounds. So well done, Mario. Wonderful feel and timing. Ok, let's hear the song they played AFTER they got drunk. Ya know, Motown turned out some good music with after hours jazzmen, too.


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ha! Mario, I enjoyed your text setup to the song! Very clever way to sage the audience's expectations. David Cuny recently commented on one of Floyd's songs about how expectations affect how we hear a song. I agree. You can use expectations to guide the audience or to throw them a curve ball... but either way they have an impact on the listening experience.

LOVE the horns in this! Makes me want to write a song specifically so I can put horns in it.

I'm guessing the backing is BIAB and then you played all the solos? Great job! The intro story about the musicians in a bar jamming makes it easy to visualize each of the players you are acting out in this story.

Very clever. Well done my friend! I am impressed by your many and varied talents

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