Yesterday I drove to Skyline Productions studio in Warren, NJ to complete the fifth post-production session for my album.  A full six months after recording the big band, we have finally finished editing all the material, which means that —at last—we’re ready to mix!  My incredible engineer Paul Wickliffe will create an initial mix on his own, which will be ready for me to review by June 19th.  Since he’s Grammy-nominated and has recorded/mixed decades of big band records from Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis to Maria Schneider, he’ll make it easy for me.  After reviewing this mix, we plan to finalize it by the end of June, and perhaps master the album by then.

Meanwhile I’ve been working with media/artist consultant Donna Walker-Kuhne, through a grant from the Queens Arts Council’s Individual Artist Initiative, on developing my plan for the album release campaign.  This exciting work will be my main focus as soon as the album is mastered (i.e., when I have a finished product to market).  More details on this to come…

JF