MAYNARD RECORDS A NEW STUDIO CD!

Maynard and an all-star band recently played a week at the Blue Note in New York, and then took a short drive across the George Washington Bridge to Englewood, New Jersey and Tony Bennett’s recording studio for a week of recording for a new CD. The band was burning! Maynard brought in some alumni as featured guests to augment his exceptional rhythm section. Stockton Helbing, Maynard’s drummer, got to fulfill a lifelong dream as the producer for the session.

Dave Monette was on an East Coast swing at that time, and arrived in NY in time to stop by the Blue Note for the second set Saturday night. The following Tuesday Dave went by the studio for the first day of recording to make sure Maynard’s MF PRANA trumpet was tweeked-up and in A+ playing condition for the recording session.

Maynard received a NEW MOUTHPIECE on the trip, which he immediately used the last few nights at the Blue Note and also for the recording session. It’s the NEXT GENERATION, CNC version of his MF III mouthpiece, the first design of our new “S-Series” or “SLAP” line of mouthpieces. Ed Sargent said Maynard took to the new mouthpiece immediately, and sounded so good on it he kept it in the horn for the week in the studio.

Band personel for the recording include Maynard’s lead player and Monette client Patrick Hession, and also MF alumni and L.A. studio star Wayne Bergeron, who split the lead book with Patrick.

Ed Sargent, Stockton Helbing and Phil Bulla from the studio were the perfect team to produce this album – and Ed told us earlier today that Maynard had a great week of playing and blowing solos over the band.

Thanks to Maynard, Ed, Stockton, Patrick and the entire band for showing Dave so much hospitality both at the Blue Note and in the studio. The New CD should be released sometime later this year.