Search - Mike Turk :: The Nature Of Things

I had asked Jon Wheatley, a long time friend and collaborator, to suggest some tunes or compositions for this project. We eventually used four of his suggestions and arrangements. Ovals from a great Jimmy Raney session ,I want To live, by Johnny Mandel from the 1955 Susan Hayward movie, , Engano by Luiz Banfa and of course, our title tune. Toots by Jerry Bergonzi the great Saxophonist and jazz educator, was something I had always wanted to record. He handed me the lead sheet years ago with a suggestion that I learn it and commented something like ... it's kind of in the Toots pocket. There's a great recording of Bergonzi doing this with the Bruce Gertz Quintet. Bella Rosa by Elmo Hope is another tune that stuck in my head for a while. I was eager to rip it from a Curtis Counce record and use it here.Con Alma, Dizzy Gillespie s theme is a request by Dan Kinlon , our kind friend and executive producer (also a harmonica player) for this project. He wanted it, and hey, if Dan wants it he should have it, right! Pickle In The Bank or Pickle Bank Blues; was requested by our highly esteemed recording and mixing engineer ( a harmonicist himself) Philipp Nedel. Dan enthusiastically chimed in as well....and so we whipped off a somewhat gratuitous blues for the session East Of The Sun and Mood Indigo kind of fill out the session