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• Jack western Massachusetts✭✭✭✭

  September 2006 Posts: 1,752

  Hey Dennis,
  
  Congratulations on getting this out-it's been a long road; I wasn't sure you'd be able to get it done after the robbery. Can't wait to hear it!
  
  About Canadian copyright, you might find some of this useful, though it might take a while to wade through:
  
  http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/info/act-e.html
  http://www.trytel.com/~pbkerr/copyright.html
  http://www.editors.ca/resources/web_lin ... right.html
  
  Good luck!
  Jack.
• Soref Brookline, MA✭✭✭✭

  September 2006 Posts: 94

  Sounds Like a great album, I'm really excited to hear it. You've got our support in Boston. If you're looking for an advance I'd love to pre-order the album. Good luck with the copyright business.
  
  -Jack no.2
• nwilkins New

  September 2006 Posts: 431

  hey Dennis - cool to hear about Gambale playing on your album. As you know I would not normally be very into that, but his latest acoustic album with Alain Caron is awesome. Unfortunately I was playing at the same time as them at the Rimouski Festijazz this year so I missed their show. On the plus side I did see Charlie Haden's Quartet West the night before!
  
  BTW, what is the deal with Django song copyrights in Canada - have they expired yet? Thanks,
  
  Nick
• dennis Montreal, QuebecModerator

  September 2006 Posts: 2,161

  Hi thanks for the replies everyone !!
  
  Gambale 's playing is very tasteful on my recording which is actually an RnB version of Nature Boy with Herve Gaguenetti providing a funky rhythm backed by some drums , fender rhodes and a hot sexy RnB singer, and some electric bass (with the cool slaps and whatnot). I play on a nylon string on that tune, and *gasp* (travesty!) i don't use gypsy picking!
  
  i'll post clips when i have every single track properly mixed.. we did 17 tunes, and it was a hard time for me because for the most part i chose tunes that i almost never play (or never played) and that are uncommon in today's repertoire (tunes like made in france, oui, rosetta, ornithology, stardust and especially minor swing.... ).... and a lot of the tunes have a modern twist to it (ie having tenor sax instead of violin, and having a roumanian gypsy bebop accordionist instead of just plain ol school style accordion).
  
  Ritary guests on two songs (Donna Lee and Some Of These Days), and Herve on three.
  
  Anyway , my main issues with copyright clearance are the django tunes, the french tunes that don't seem to be represented by the CMRRA, and Valse De Wasso....
  
  for the waltz I suppose I should ask Jon Larsen since it first appeared on Hot Club Records...
  
  btw it's interesting to see that Made In France is under Bireli's real name: Pierre Lagrene (hehehe)
  
  for the django tunes, michael dunn told me that they're public domain now, but i thought i heard about some extension on this law.... can anyone shed some light on this before I get sued?
  
  btw, i accompanied Duane Andrews a few weeks ago, we were talking about the django scene in Nova Scotia/Newfoundland and of course, the infamous nwilkins came up in the conversation.... just for you nick:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PF76cdPvyU
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97LTj-_8at0
  
  i still can't figure out how to post youtube videos here

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• Jack western Massachusetts✭✭✭✭

  September 2006 Posts: 1,752

  nwilkins wrote:

  On the plus side I did see Charlie Haden's Quartet West the night before!

  
  Man, I love that group...I've been listening to a lot this week, trying to turn a friend onto them. Haden's just...man!
  
  Best,
  Jack.
• nwilkins New

  September 2006 Posts: 431

  yeah Jack it was a pretty amazing concert - they played Lonely Woman (from The Shape of Jazz to Come) which was probably the highlight :twisted:
  
  however, that Rusty Cooley is so musical that Quartet West has paled in comparison - thanks Dennis!