Recording with Lynn Seaton

One of the most amazing things that happened to me in December 2014 was a recording session with Lynn Seaton. Lynn has visited Riga to teach jazz bass in JVLMA (where I’m currently studying jazz vocals). Thanks to Fulbright scholarship of the embassy of the USA he stayed with us for the whole semester, it was a big luck for us, because we had a chance to learn so much from him. We jammed a couple of times and decided to make a recording, because we were so inspired with the result. We did 3 tunes – one was a up tempo swing “What a little moonlight can do”, a duo for a ballad “You don’t know what love is” and the most unexpected of all – cover version of Adele song “Rolling in the deep”. Now, the story behind the last one was quite funny. That evening I had to be a surprise guest at a stand up show called “Spiediens” (pressure) and I was very unsure about how well I have learned the tune, so I asked the guys to help me out and rehears it a bit. And then Artjom suggested we reharmonize it a bit to spice it up. So we did. The result is awesome, we have a jazz version of a totally pop tune :)

Anyways, it’s the time to say thank you! Thank you Lynn for the opportunity to do music with you. Thank you Artjom for taking part in the recording and in the reharmonizing the tune. Thank you Funcoolio band for lending the studio. Thank you Vladimir Tuzoff for recording and mixing. Thank you Nikita Kuzmins for filming and Vadim Kozhin for filming and editing the video!