Day 1, album #3?

[mercfan3]

I think Haley most definitely has "her sound" ..it had progressed from Listen Up to Better, but it's definitely a unified sound.

It might not fit in a genre box perfectly though. One of my favorite musician's (Michelle Chamuel) always talked about how good pop artists and pop songs take and mix different genres and make them accessible to large audiences..and that's what I think Haley and her music does.

IMO, if you were to find a specific label, I would call it soul pop. And I think of any artist out there, her music fits with Bruno Mars. But still, Haley is most definitely "her own."

[Miguel]

Ray Moore

Some things comin up musically... Then to LA with Ms. Haley Reinhart to do some ooh la laas on the Mic.

Sounds like "the band" might be involved. Nice to have a group with established chemistry that she can rely on.

[KelseyW.]

I think Haley most definitely has "her sound" ..it had progressed from Listen Up to Better, but it's definitely a unified sound.

It might not fit in a genre box perfectly though. One of my favorite musician's (Michelle Chamuel) always talked about how good pop artists and pop songs take and mix different genres and make them accessible to large audiences..and that's what I think Haley and her music does.

IMO, if you were to find a specific label, I would call it soul pop. And I think of any artist out there, her music fits with Bruno Mars. But still, Haley is most definitely "her own."

She definitely does. I agree that it's progressed from the two albums.

Haley is so wide ranging with genres that us fans should count ourselves lucky. We won't be hearing the same type of album over and over again...

YES! Soul/Pop is my favorite side of her voice. She showed that side of her with "Like A Star," "I'm Your Baby Tonight," and "Beautiful." At least.... I heard her soulful and pure vocals in those covers. In addition with Listen Up!

[Tusk]

Tusk ‏@HaleysTusk 3s3 seconds ago
Ermmm @scottbradlee is going to be on @HaleyReinhart album..... !!!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BO_MzU4gcJ0/

scottbradlee
Stopped by the studio to play some {piano emoji} on @haleyreinhart's new record! Her new stuff is sounding great!

[Miguel]

Scott Bradlee ‏@scottbradlee 1h

Stop by to add some (keyboard icon) to @HaleyReinhart's new album! You guys are going to love it

[Himm2]

Scott is showing the courtesy of helping Haley out on her upcoming album! Which probably means Scott will help promote the album to his millions of followers since he is a contributor! This is getting exciting folks!

[john]

Martin Guigui
22 mins ·
Recording with the immensely talented Haley Reinhart (American Idol) at legendary Sunset Sound in Hollywood. Grammy award winner John Burk at the helm for Concord Records, and a big fat back beat rhythm section- Mike Merritt & Mike Shapiro. Watch for this CD in May! It's super hip!

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Sunset Sound - Studio 2

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Some of the albums recorded in Studio 2: Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin IV, Van Halen (4 albums), Beck: Odelay, and Sheryl Crow: C'mon, C'mon.

Martin Guigui is an award winning filmmaker and Grammy nominated Music Producer.

Guigui has directed 8 Films, written 16 screenplays, Executive Produced over a dozen movies, composed music for over 20 films, and TV shows and produced over 30 music albums while touring extensively. Guigui has worked with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars including Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Dennis Quaid, Charlie Sheen and James Franco. Born in Buenos Aires Argentina, son of Famed Symphony Orchestra Conductor Maestro Efrain Guigui, Martin had an eclectic upbringing in New York, Puerto Rico and Vermont, a music prodigy playing Violin at age four, his concert debut with the Puerto Rico Symphony at age 12, performing Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in D Major. An accomplished Pianist, music director and record producer Guigui has worked with icons such as Billy Gibbons, Daryl Hall, Sheila E, Steve Earle, James Cotton, Phish, Jose Feliciano, Smokey Robinson, David Byrne and many others. ...
http://www.martinguigui.com/guiguibio.htm

Among other things Guigui is a director and does a lot of film work

Nine Eleven (2017)
1h 30min | Action, Drama | 2017 (USA)

Director: Martin Guigui
Stars: Charlie Sheen, Whoopi Goldberg, Gina Gershon ...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4917224/

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Mike Shapiro has worked with such noted artists as will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas, Justin Timberlake, Natalie Cole, Macy Gray, Dori Caymmi, and Sergio Mendes with whom he has recorded many albums together including 1993’s Grammy-winning “Brasileiro”, 2006’s Latin Grammy-winning “Timeless” and 2010’s Latin Grammy-winning “Bon Tempo”.

drummer, percussionist

Michael Monroe "Mike" Merritt (born July 28, 1955) is an American bassist best known for playing with the Conan O'Brien house bands...

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I would guess that Guigui is producing some of the album.

Martin Guigui Band w/ Kenny Aronoff & special guests


Percussionist Mike Shapiro has played with Sergio Mendez for a long time as well a Herb Albert/Lani Hale (Bossa Nova land).


Mike Merritt


Martin Guigui worked with Billy Gibbons on his solo album and it appears he continues to work with him (from FB posts)

THE DEBUT SOLO ALBUM BY ZZ TOP GUITARIST/VOCALIST AND ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE BILLY GIBBONS

Perfectamundo is the debut solo album from Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top guitarist/vocalist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, who is backed by a handpicked group of musicians dubbed The BFG’s on this unique outing. As the title may suggest, the album takes on a bit of an Afro-Cuban flavor that may come as a surprise to some Gibbons fans and followers.

Even before the blues-rock/hard-rock great’s first recordings back in 1967 with the Moving Sidewalks, his legendary pre-ZZ Top Houston psyche-punk garage band, Gibbons studied Latin percussion in Manhattan with none other than its preeminent virtuoso, “Mambo King” Tito Puente, a friend of Billy’s bandleader dad. Puente taught the young Gibbons the essential Latin rhythms via conga, bongo, maracas and, most importantly, timbales. “Banging away on ‘em came back like riding on a lost bicycle,” Gibbons relates of his return to the genre by way of Perfectamundo.

But the concept for Perfectamundo, which was produced by Gibbons and Joe Hardy and recorded in Houston, Los Angeles, Austin and Pontevedra, Spain, originated with Gibbons’ invitation to perform at the 2014 Havana Jazz Festival, delivered by his Argentine-born, Puerto Rico-raised friend and musical collaborator Martin Guigui. While he was unable to make it to Cuba, Billy did commence exploring the potential for an Afro-Cuban inflected album project at his Houston studio. Soon after presenting his engineering crew with a business card from a newly opened Cuban eatery called Sal Y Pimienta (salt and pepper), the first track finished for Perfectamundo took its title from that card.

He followed this with a “Spanglish” version of Louisiana swamp blues maestro Slim Harpo’s classic “Got Love If You Want It” and an Afro-Cubanized take on the Lightnin’ Hopkins blues staple “Baby Please Don’t Go,” thereby fully merging Gibbons innate Houston blues tradition with Cuban rhythms. With the first three tracks ready to go, he sought further guidance from Guigui as well as Chino Pons, a Cuban friend who heads his own quartet in New York. “Chino, so to speak, sprinkled holy water on our efforts and expressed confidence that we were headed in the right direction—and that bit of affirmation gave us the impetus for more forward motion,” says Gibbons.
[note from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXSQn00cXj4]

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/billy-gib...ectamundo/

Treat Her Right (Guigui on piano)


Video for Grammy Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rEHTNcrfBk

[Miguel]

"John Burk at the helm for Concord Records"

He is the president and co-founder of Concord. He might be the producer. He co-produced Melissa Etheridge's last album Memphis Rock and Soul, which is "covers of classic tunes from the days when Stax acts ruled the charts."

...(“Memphis Train” is) one of the last songs we recorded for the album. I hadn’t had that on my short list of songs. It was so hard to decide which songs because there are so many amazing Stax songs. It was the last day of recording, and we had done all the songs I wanted to do. There were a couple that were thrown out that I thought didn’t work. John Burk, the head of Concord, who was co-producing the album with me, said, “What about this song?” He played Rufus Thomas’s “Memphis Train,” and I could feel that beat. It was awesome. I didn’t have a clue what he was singing about it, but it was cool and fun. We worked up our own arrangement of it. I went in there, and I sang it and played the harmonica and had a blast. It sets the whole album up. I really love it. http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-hear...-new-album

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A quick check shows Concord has recorded albums with Joe Cocker and Heart at Sunset. The Doors also recorded there back in the day.

[Tusk]

Martin Guigui
22 mins ·
Recording with the immensely talented Haley Reinhart (American Idol) at legendary Sunset Sound in Hollywood. Grammy award winner John Burk at the helm for Concord Records, and a big fat back beat rhythm section- Mike Merritt & Mike Shapiro. Watch for this CD in May! It's super hip!

-h/t Rachel

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Mike Merritt ‏@forestringer 4m4 minutes ago
Just finished tracking for Haley Reinhart's new record at Sunset Sound, with her dad Harry on guitar. Great talent!

[Miguel]

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Michael Monroe "Mike" Merritt (born July 28, 1955) is an American bassist best known for playing with the Conan O'Brien house bands: The Max Weinberg 7 on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in New York, Max Weinberg and The Tonight Show Band on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien in Los Angeles, and currently The Basic Cable Band on Conan also in Los Angeles.



Merritt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father is jazz bassist Jymie Merritt, who has performed and recorded with many jazz and blues musicians, most notably Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Mike began lessons on upright with Eligio Rossi then studies with percussionist/composer Warren McLendon. Although his father was primarily an upright bass player, he also owned a 1964 Fender Jazz Bass which Mike felt was the instrument he was meant to play. During this time Mike absorbed a number of influences ranging from jazz to rhythm and blues to blues to rock.[1]

After playing in a jazz group called Forerunner/Nuclei, Mike moved to New York in 1980 at the suggestion of the members of the Jazz Messengers. It was here that he began playing with blues legend Johnny Copeland and continued through 1989. While on the road with Copeland, he backed up Chuck Berry pianist Johnnie Johnson which led to Mike working with him off and on for the next several years.[1]

It was also around this time that Mike started gigging around the New York scene where he regularly played with future members of The Max Weinberg 7. In 1993, guitarist Jimmy Vivino called Mike about a group being put together by Max Weinberg to audition for the house band on what would become Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The band has been there for the entire run of the show and its successors.[1]

Mike plays a variety of basses including Rickenbacker, Lakland, Fender, Hofner, the Zeta Crossover bass and a 1935 Kurt Moenning 3/4’ Acoustic Bass.