Carman J. Price - I Will
Carman’s second album, 10 years after his first one, is an eloquent jazz vocal album featuring Bill Coon and Rene Worst.
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On the Rhythm Changes Podcast, Carman J. Price talks about his second jazz vocal album, I Will. He released it from North Vancouver on November 26, 2021.
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We talked about:
- Who is Carman’s favourite Beatle, because his title track is a Beatles cover
- How Carman chose the repertoire for I Will
- Kate Hammett-Vaughan’s tune of choice that stuck with him
- Having Bill Coon and Rene Worst as band members for both his albums
- The famous singer for whom Carman dreamed of doing background vocals
- The skills that you need to be a successful background singer
- Nat Cole’s importance as an influence on us and other young jazz musicians, as mentioned by Ilhan Saferali
- How John Pizzarelli impresses us with his choice of songs
- His experience working with David Sikula, who recorded, mixed, and mastered I Will
- The amazing number of tracks recorded in 4 hours for his first album, I Do, in 2011 with Brad Turner engineering it
- Overcoming the self-doubt that comes with being a music student
- Carman’s home-turf kind of job (like North Shore Celtic Ensemble for me) at a dinner theatre in his twenties
- The period of time where recording jingles and ads in studios was a thing
- Why we want to see more albums like the recent ones from Jodi Proznick and Amanda Tosoff
- The goal of ‘being on the list’
- Carman’s love of movies, adding in some references to jazz standards