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Neil Sadler
Theory Of Forms
(Bleeding Arts)
Release year: 1999

Relevant Track Listing:

1. Jazz Bastards
2. DNA For Beginners
7. wFb

Personnel:

Neil Sadler - Keyboards, Percussion
Mike Keneally - Guitar
Walt Fowler - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Steve Fowler - Alto Sax
Albert Wing - Tenor Sax
Kurt McGettrick - Tenor Sax
Bruce Fowler - Trombone
Bryan Beller - Bass
Joel Woods - Bass

Equipment used:

Tobias (pre-Gibson) Classic 5-String Bass

The closest I'll ever come to sitting in with the 1988 Zappa band. Neil Sadler is a post-modern jazz/classical/fusion/rock composer with a mean streak on his charts. This was some of the toughest material I've had to deal with, from both a technique and a theoretical standpoint. I should have focused a little more on my sound for this, as it ended up a little thin, but at the end of the day I was just relieved to have gotten it done at all. You don't even want to know how the ultra-fast swing section (quarter note = 250+ bpm) of "Jazz Bastards" was tracked.

Click here for Neil Sadler's website.