Snow Owl, Normas (2013)
"My third release as band leader; I invited all the people that had inspired, taught or helped me as a young artist to do this in Vienna. ‘Normas’ means standards, the high standards these people taught me. I wanted to show them it was me questioning everything I’d learned. I took all these famous jazz standards and translated their titles to Spanish, where they have different meanings, deeper meanings. I composed songs based on those names, the feelings from those words and the Latin jazz community received it tremendously well. We ended up with a Grammy nomination. I must say that I will never forget the feeling of seeing my name on the Grammys next to Chick Corea and Paquito D’Riviera. I use the same bass here as I did on My Green Color and Masaba Can, but the choice of compression and EQ is where it changes so it sits in the mix of the music. Integrating the Jack Ruppert Bass Switch helped me get a different edge that I needed here.”