Rob Hayes, VP of external affairs, reports from the HNQ’s recording session.
The time has flown by here. The band has been recording at the Steelgrass Farm Studio, and has eight to ten strong tracks in the can. Producer and Berklee Professor Stephen Webber is thrilled with the band’s sound, and how fast and unerringly they work. They’ve been having a great time. They’ve even snuck out for an ocean swim a few times!
And now … Hawaii
Berklee is a truly entrepreneurial place. A school that started in 1945, in Lawrence Berk’s teaching studio, with a big idea and a lot of heart, has somehow hung onto the notion that if you can extend yourself to bring music to the people, and do some good in the process, they will respond in kind.
Rising jazz star Hailey Niswanger, part of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, is touring North America this summer with her quartet. She wrote in from the Pacific Northwest. . .where there was apparently some sort of game recently played on ice.
Berklee College of Music’s West Coast tour is currently underway with the Hailey Niswanger Quartet. This exciting group is featuring myself on Alto and Soprano saxophones, Takeshi Ohbayashi on piano, Aaron Darrell on bass, and Mark Whitfield Jr. on drums.
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