Lounge Jamming

LOUNGE JAMMING by CHINA JUMP Now Available on iTune ..To find out who CHINA JUMP is refer to www.myspace.com/mangarepublic. On this page I shall provide an overview of LOUNGE JAMMING. In between recording two "serious" blocks of compositions for 'Beijing Express' and 'Iberian Tales', I pulled Wayne Miller aside while Phil Rigger started the task of pulling 'Goya's Dream' & 'El Cordobes' into shape and said to him I needed a bit of a holiday musically from where we have just been. Having just come off arranging big tracks such as 'Three Steps Towards The Future', 'My Mother's city', 'Father's Shadow' etc I guess Wayne understood where I am coming from and was more than happy to take a cruise through the touristy end of the music spectrum. It was summer in Sydney (best time to be there) and we split the sessions into two shifts; Phil used to do nights and Wayne the days and I would drift in and out of the studio during and in between. I started to leave Phil more to himself as he had a full grasp of what was required from the first of the two Iberian Tales tracks. Wayne and I started the new regime by take things very easy whilst writing and arranging 'Drinking Claudia By The Beach' and 'Jazz Beautiful'. These two songs were inspired by the years I had spent growing up in Rio De Janeiro and to capture that breezy looseness we used to breakfast together in Rose Bay, a lovely harbour suburb of Sydney and then cabbed into the studio casually. By the time we got there Phil would play what he has done overnight to us before stumbling off home to catch some ZZZs...It was a highly unfair arrangement and Phil definitely got very pale complexion from a lack of rays during this period. Then again, from a creative point of view, the required outcome was most definitely noticeable if 'Goya's Dream' was put next to 'Jazz Beautiful', anyone will be able to distinct the dark, cruel sound of the Spanish inquisition versus a day at the beach with your favorite molata......so enjoy the lite lift of 'Claudia' and 'Jazz', CHINA JUMP's lounge/elevator moment! 'Looking forward, thinking back' is an adptation of a Dave Scotland composition 'Kerrie'. I was looking around for something to feature the individual talents of Dave, Phil, Jeremy, Wayne, Jason and remembered this composition from the days when Dave and I used to play it in a three piece rock band. I went to Dave and asked him if he would mind if I used the chord structure but only keep the original opening guitar melody. He was cool with the whole idea so I got Wayne to arrange it in such a way that it would feature solos, in their order: Dave Scotland (guitar), Jason Morphett (Sax), Jeremy Sawkins (guitar), Phil Rigger (trumpet), Jeremy Sawkinks (guitar), Wayne Miller (keyboards) and signs off with Dave Scotland on guitar. Obviouly 'Looking Forward' is the most serious composition on this light detour as each member only had so many bars to highlight their chops. This is a musical side trip for CHINA JUMP, and I hope you'll enjoy it too. Joe Lee.....................Other China Jump Release Available on iTune:BEIJING EXPRESS ..IBERIAN TALES ..