Ed Laub - Soft Guitar (2014)

Tracklist

01. We Three (My Echo, My Shadow & Me) [feat. Bucky Pizzarelli]
02. Four Brothers (feat. Bucky Pizzarelli)
03. Always (feat. Bucky Pizzarelli)
04. Tangerine (feat. Bucky Pizzarelli)
05. The Grass Will Grow (feat. Lenny Argese)
06. More Than You Know
07. Without You (Tres Palabras) [feat. Bucky Pizzarelli]
08. Snowfall (feat. Bucky Pizzarelli)
09. This Happy Madness (Estrada Branca) [feat. Paul Meyers]
10. Street of Dreams / Two Funky People (feat. Bucky Pizzarelli)
11. Where Do You Start (feat. Gene Bertoncini)
12. Early Autumn (feat. Bucky Pizzarelli)
13. Nuages (feat. Bucky Pizzarelli)
14. Body and Soul (feat. Bucky Pizzarelli)
15. Soft Guitar

This album represents a collection of songs that I have played over the years with my long time partner and friend, Bucky Pizzarelli. As my mentor for 4 decades he has been a major influence on my style and approach to music.

My first lesson was not as much about playing the guitar as it was understanding his philosophy about playing and performing. He said "your most important responsibility as a musician is to make the the other people you are playing with sound as good as possible...its not about you!" Over the years my role as Bucky's accompanist has always been to enhance every note he plays and it has earned me the respect of other musicians that I work with.

I have always loved to sing and on this CD i have gotten the opportunity to demonstrate some of the tunes that I do so often in my live performances. I am hoping this is a jumping off point to record a purely guitar/vocal cd just by myself.

The addition of Gene Bertoncini and Paul Meyers on two of the tracks was an extra added bonus I hadn't planned on, but so glad that it worked out that way!

Bucky, Gene and Paul are all friends first and it meant so much to me that they were excited to help with my first CD.

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