Member Since: 4/23/2006
Band Website: andyfite.se
Band Members: Andy Fite, alone in my studio:
On When the Little Red Light Comes On, 6 voices and bass guitar.
On The Song of the Average Male, voice, 2 guitars and bass.
My Prelude no. 15 is a straight solo guitar recording, no overdubs or cuts or anything.
I Love Your Lungs, voice and guitar, also an honest solo recording.
On Ace Rx, it's me on 4 or possibly 5 vocal tracks, and 1 guitar.
On the Mozart (it's the minuet from the "Dissonance" string quartet), I'm on all 4 guitars.
Influences: For convenience, call it Lennie Tristano meets Tom Lehrer. Then, if you really want to know, just for starters: Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Nat Cole, Warne Marsh, Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Sheila Jordan, Lenny Bruce, Wilhelm Reich, Slim Gaillard, JS Bach, Charlie Christian, Lambert Hendricks & Ross, Red Mitchell, George Van Eps, Brahms, Chopin, George Gershwin, Johnny Burke, Johnny Mercer and the rest of them, those great songwriters who wrote the so-called jazz standards. Frank Sinatra. Clifford Brown. Roy Eldridge! Max Roach! Well. And many more. Earl Hines. Bud Powell...And Connie Crothers, Liz Gorrill, Roger Mancuso, Richard Tabnik, Carol Tristano, Lenny Popkin, Bob Casanova and pretty much everybody else on the recordings at www.newartistsrecords.com
Record Label: Other Street Music; New Artists Records
Type of Label: Indie