It features Mr. FireCrow on flute, percussion and vocals along with Jovino Santos Neto on keyboards, Jon Nyborg on guitars, John Scalia on bass, Dale Heib on drums and David Swenson on additional percussion and keyboards.
The Philharmonic's operations team visited Caramoor and found that, with extensions, the stage could handle the orchestra, Mr. Mehta said, as long as the program did not require additional percussion or make other demands on space.
The group features Brian Marsella, on keyboards and balaphon, Tim Keiper, on drums and additional percussion, and Shanir Blumenkranz on acoustic and electric bass, as well as oud and gimbre.
Jamal, born in 1930, has been recording since 1951, primarily in the trio format (initially piano-guitar-bass, then piano-bass-drums), and his new release, "It's Magic" (Birdology/Dreyfus), hews to the latter format — Jamal is joined by his regular group, the drummer Idris Muhammad and the bassist James Cammack, plus Manolo Badrena, who discreetly contributes additional percussion.
There was a cooler in the back of the car, full of sodas on ice — "the best ice, crystal-clear ice," Stuart said — and the sound of shifting Cokes provided additional percussion to a three-track Sarah Brightman CD on the stereo, which was playing very softly in a perpetual loop, hour after hour.
Forsey supplied additional percussion; Davies supplied vocals, guitars, keyboards (Prophet 5), bass and programmed the Linn drum machine.
"He could experiment with extra percussion, an additional guitar, organ - whatever he felt the track needed".
MR: How much layering of additional synths and extra percussion were added, as opposed to just the recording of the orchestra for the three days?
Surviving scores show his instrumentation for additional wind and brass, and even extra percussion.
It was played by an ensemble of nine instruments, including piano, with additional Arabic percussion instruments.
This was later combined with additional plastic percussion performances by Greg Saunier (drummer and founding member of the band Deerhoof).
