Multitracking at the CCC with Billy Batts Ensemble + Plus A Few Charts For Your Reading Pleasure

We are on a mission to elevate our web presence and piece together an EPK for this most distinguished of jazzy, bluesy, jamming congregates of music performance groups.  The Billy Batts Ensemble shall soon have a spot on the web where we can hang our hats, share our pilfered charts, discuss our latest licks, trade secrets about that often used Boss pedal, boil our bass strings, oh the pleasures that await!  Walt pieced together a few items to allow for what turned out to be a very nice sounding digital 8-track recording.  There were some issues, as recording sessions always yield issues.  The hard drive may have been the culprit early in the evening.  Time permitting, Walt will get a chance to listen back and choose some of the finer moments, after a careful but simple balancing of levels and perhaps some fairy dust sprinkled for good measure.  We are going for warts and all, an honest recap of a typical evening on the bandstand.  When the red light is on, I always find myself playing a bit more carefully.  Well, last night I tried to get out of that space and be a bit more adventurous.  I think I was inserting some rather questionable chord changes into Chitlins Con Carne.    Sometimes an interesting idea can be taken too far.  Sometimes a simple, steady bass line is what the song requires and that being clever can turn out to be annoying upon repeated listenings.  I brought my fretless and my Jazz bass, to have a bit of contrast on the tracks.  My "new" pedalbaord got its first test run and performed very well, I must say.  I enjoyed having it at my disposal, with the switch between instruments go flawlessly.  I also liked having the SansAmp Bass Driver DI in line before the Boss ME-50B for the Jazz bass.  It warmed up the tone, all dials at 12 o'clock - ah, just like the old days!  Our set list varied from what we had originally planned.  I would like to try again, naturally.  My best moment may have been during my solo on Come Together.  I refrained from slapping, as it is just not what I am cut out to do and it feels like a cop out on a semi-funky groove.  Some of the more adventurous tunes were left out.  Mark also saw to it to bring a deluxe Nikon camera (with a super deluxe lens, of course) that we utilized to get some group shots, with one of the server's help.  The pics may look a bit stiff, but we gave it our best shot, so to speak.  Posing in the lobby of the Capital City Club made us look like preppy dads hanging out after taking the wives and kids out for a steak and salmon dinner.  All that was missing were our glasses of scotch on the rocks and some cigars.  I don't need to tell you that these are not those shots - my not-so-great LG phone camera.  Won't this blog get an incredible face list when i get a new phone one day?

Those curious fonts are my "corrections" to this otherwise near-flawless
lead sheet to Just Friends, taken from the Sher New Real Book Vol. 3.
Jazz players are drawn to those ii-V's, so that's what I inserted,
plus, that turnaround after the first A needed some work.

A very nice chart for Cantaloupe Island - helpful to those of us
wishing to play this on The Stick, perhaps.

Marcus Miller's Tutu has some nice counterparts.
A lot of information to convey on 2 pages.

My chart for When I Fall In Love,done years ago on an
older version of Finale.  I recently imported into Finale 10
and did a few quick tweaks.  It needs more work...