I played two nights in a row this weekend in a guitar-led trio with bass and drums. I and everyone there had a blast! When you're playing with musicians you like for a receptive audience, it's so much fun, and not ‘work’ at all. Playing jobs like that is my favorite form of therapy!
The G/B/D trio is how I became a professional, it's my ‘roots’. That's the format I started working with in 1995, when I began playing 6-nights a week for literally year after year after year! In the beginning, I played all covers. But, as I became more experienced composing, and later recording my own songs and, as I met a variety of horn players and percussionists, I began moving away from the traditional G/B/D trio format. The varied and vibrant musical community, and the exotic, locale environment of Singapore where I lived then inspired new sounds I began hearing in my head, and I needed more instruments and larger ensembles in order to flesh those ideas out. My albums, Integration https://gregchako.bandcamp.com/album/integration, Where We Find Ourselves https://gregchako.bandcamp.com/album/where-we-find-ourselves, and Paint a Picture, Tell a Story https://gregchako.bandcamp.com/album/paint-a-picture-tell-a-story, featured larger ensembles and all-original music scored with unique instrumentation.
The G/B/D trio is how I became a professional, it's my ‘roots’. That's the format I started working with in 1995, when I began playing 6-nights a week for literally year after year after year! In the beginning, I played all covers. But, as I became more experienced composing, and later recording my own songs and, as I met a variety of horn players and percussionists, I began moving away from the traditional G/B/D trio format. The varied and vibrant musical community, and the exotic, locale environment of Singapore where I lived then inspired new sounds I began hearing in my head, and I needed more instruments and larger ensembles in order to flesh those ideas out. My albums, Integration https://gregchako.bandcamp.com/album/integration, Where We Find Ourselves https://gregchako.bandcamp.com/album/where-we-find-ourselves, and Paint a Picture, Tell a Story https://gregchako.bandcamp.com/album/paint-a-picture-tell-a-story, featured larger ensembles and all-original music scored with unique instrumentation.
