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Snow Owl, Normas (2013)

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"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.”

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