'Liner Notes' - Madre y Padre This project started out simply called 'Samba'. Our teenage daughter had taken to calling her parents 'Madre' and 'Padre' when she wanted to get our attention (or simply wanted something), so I found inspiration from there to title this latin number 'Madre y Padre'. It was originally a total MIDI track with flute, sax and piano features, but a recent remixing replaced the 'synthed' sax with 'real' trumpet. 'Liner Notes' - Reflections Reflections is the granddaddy of all of the Hackdaddy projects. The first version of this track was written nearly 30 years ago for trumpet and piano, and was performed for a student recital at Wittenberg University. This was somewhat progressive at the time as the vast majority of student recital pieces were from standard repertoire that typically was not jazzy and did not contain improvisation. I certainly admit to some inspiration from Chuck Mangione (among others) on this track, with his Bellavia probably being the biggest influence. Reflections resurfaced in the 90's as a brass quintet piece for Champaign Brass, taking on the form of a trumpet feature with brass quartet accompaniment. It began morphing into the present version a few years ago, and for awhile was a (synthed) trumpet and clarinet duet with piano and string features. The current published version is an acoustic trumpet duet, and also has an expanded strings presence throughout the track. 'Liner Notes' - Sugarloaf Parkway Sugarloaf Parkway is another one of those projects that began it's life a long time ago and has been simmering at various temperatures ever since. The primary organ theme was 'born' around 1980 and is actually based in part on an idea from a friend in college, so if this song ever becomes popular I will need to track him down and strike a deal. :) The second theme is also from around the same time, but was part of a different track for a long time before it found a home here. The bridge material with the synth feature actually came along only a few years ago, and had also started out in something else until the 'aha' came along to put it here. Finally, sensing that the track needed a little something else (like finding that one extra seasoning that makes the soup special), the organ solo was realized just a few weeks ago. The name 'Sugarloaf Parkway' comes from a road by that name in metro NE Atlanta Ga. It's a newer road that sort of 'cuts across the grain' of the existing roads to provide a quick and easy way to get from here to there in that part of town. The drive and energy of this track seems to reflect that same 'cut across the grain' feel; thus the name. 'Liner Notes' - Para Siempre Para Siempre is a smooth jazz instrumental, a trumpet feature stylistically similar to Reflections. This one percolated on the piano for quite awhile, and when I finally got around to laying out tracks for it a few winters ago, the 'tongue-in-cheek' working title was New Years Eve. At any rate, it felt like it was taking forever to get this one done, so Para Siempre seemed like a good choice for the final title. 'Liner Notes' - Noche Caliente It's funny how sometimes a concept ends up very different from when it started. The basic melody and chord progression for this track has been around for a number of years, and was a medium-slow, piano-centric ballad mostly known as 'Major 7th thing' (or maybe it was 'The Other Major 7th thing, or 'Other Other Major 7th thing, you get the picture). I was planning on working it up as a full-bodied Hackdaddy track in that fashion, but hadn't really started anything. About a year ago, good friend John 'booger' MacDonald sent me an uptempo rumba drum track, knowing my fondness for latin beats. I spent a few months thinking about how to best use his track, and the light bulb went off - combine 'Major 7th thing' with the 'booger rumba'! The working title became 'Latin Thing' and developed into a full Hackdaddy manifesto, with background horns, trumpet and organ features and added percussion. In spite of snow on the ground and frigid temps outside, ther
