Rich Breen

7/2010 Yellowjackets

richbreen — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:06:29 +0000

A new Yellowjackets CD in the works! Really nice to be back in the studio with the fellows! Tracked for 3 days at Firehouse studios in Pasadena – 12 original songs

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7/2010 Patricia Talem

richbreen — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:41:54 +0000

Just finishing up a CD for the wonderful Brazilian singer Patricia Talem – beautiful CD featuring Marco da Costa on drums, Christian Mcbride on bass, Sandro Albert on guitar, Russ Ferrante on piano, Bob Mintzer on sax, Flavio Venturini and Jane Monheit guesting on vocals, and probably some other folks I’m forgetting right now. Patricia tracked at Bennett Studios in Jersey, and I mixed here. A really nice CD! Should be out in a couple months…

3/2010 Tinkerbell 3

richbreen — Wed, 05 May 2010 04:09:06 +0000

Another spring, another Tinkerbell movie, another great score from Joel McNeely! Yes, the fairies have returned again, and once again, Joel’s written a beautiful orchestral score. We had a few days at Sony Scoring with a great orchestra, and, through the good graces of a volcano in Iceland, which stranded the entire production team in London for a week, a third of the score was recorded with another great orchestra at Abbey Road. Pretty interesting to hear the two rooms back to back…

I’ll try to post some pics later – gotta get back to mixing…

Vince Mendoza 3/2010

richbreen — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:59:35 +0000

3/1/2010

Amazing couple of days at Conway ‘A’ tracking basics for a new Vince Mendoza CD. Great band: Alan Pasqua on piano, Larry Goldings on B3, Jimmy Johnson on bass, Luis Conte and Alex Acuña on percussion, Peter Erskine on drums, Luciana Souza on vocals, Marcia Dickstein on harp. Gorgeous, gorgeous music – I can’t wait for this to be finished. There’s many tracks still to cut, and additional musicians will include John Scofield, John Abercrombie, Christian McBride, Greg Hutchison, Nguyen Le, Bob Mintzer, the Metropole Orchestra, etc…

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Mike Landau, Robben Ford, Jimmy Haslip, Gary Novak

richbreen — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:00:39 +0000

2/15/2010 – UPDATE

This project is mixed, mastered, and delivered this week. Sadly, no pics since I only mixed this project and didn’t do any of the rhythm tracking – a few vocal tracks with Robben was about all.

Good stuff!

11/14/2009

Spent the last few weeks mixing a very cool new band project with Robben Ford, Mike Landau, Gary Novak and Jimmy Haslip. Album will be called “Renegade Creation”. Mike Landau has a studio in his home where he tracked everyone. Two of my favorite guitar players on one project! Great to work with any one of these guys, but all at once is more than one could ask for! Anyway, the CD’s really nice, and will be coming out on Mike Varney’s label sometime in the spring I think. I’ll post when I get some details about release, etc…

January 2010 Latin Grammy

richbreen — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:40:06 +0000

1/20/2010 Look what showed up in the mail yesterday!

It’s for the Ivan Lins / Metropole Orchestra CD.

January 2010: Iwan VanHetten

richbreen — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:04:51 +0000

A couple days in the studio with a really nice band for trumpeter Iwan VanHetten’s CD – Russ Ferrante, Will Kennedy, and Melvin Davis.

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December 2009, Bob Mintzer, etc…

richbreen — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:52:09 +0000

Busy month!

Just finished a very nice couple days with Bob Mintzer, Larry Goldings, and Peter Erskine for an organ trio CD of Bob’s. Tracked it up at Castle Oaks Studio in Calabasas. Should be coming out in the spring – I’ll post when I have details. Here’s a few pics from the session:

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Also did some nice orchestra dates up north at Skywalker earlier this month – wouldn’t mind working at this place all the time!

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Billy Childs, Grammy Awards

richbreen — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:41:15 +0000

12/5/2009

Currently mixing the new Billy Childs project – CD will be titled “Autumn: In Moving Pictures” – one of the most amazing projects I’ve worked on in a long time - it’s really going to be great! Should finish this in January, and I believe Billy’s shooting for a March release date.

Also just heard that the Bob Florence CD “Legendary” has been nominated for two Grammys; Best Large Ensemble and Best Composition. Keeping my fingers crossed!

Ivan Lins Latin Grammy Nomination

richbreen — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:23:56 +0000

Just heard that the Ivan Lins / Metropole Orchestra recording has been nominated for a handful of Latin Grammys – Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best MPB (Música Popular Brasileira) Album – Nice!

Great CD – gorgeous tunes, amazing arrangements from Vince and co., beautiful performances from the Metropole – right now I think it’s still not available as a US release, but you can get it from Biscoito Fino’s website here.