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A Day Without You

from Accretion by Reginald Chapman

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"This song, like a lot of my pieces, first started out as a beat that I made in Garage Band on my iPad.

I wrote it after going back on the road for the first time after meeting my now wife, to help finish up Rebecca Rego’s album (at Tiny Telephone in San Francisco). It’s a celebration of loving someone enough to miss them when they aren’t around.

It’s become a staple of my live sets for a few years now. The take we used for the album comes from a 2018 show with the Illinois chapter of my Pressure Fit band – recorded live at The Iron Post jazz club in downtown Urbana. For years, The Iron Post was the hub for Jazz music in that area, showcasing students and legendary locals alike for decades, until the owner's untimely passing in 2021 (RIP Paul).

This is also probably one of the first recordings of me on a bass trumpet – something that I’ve gone on to do a lot more of since. This night I was playing a custom-build from Best American Craftsmen (only the second bass trumpet that B.A.C. had built at that point), which I had just picked up a few months before.

When listening back to the live recording, my bass trumpet solo felt like it could use some embellishment for the album – so I reached out to the reed specialist himself, Morgan Price (of Antibalas, Ikebe Shakedown, and work with Beyoncé, J Cole, Czarface & MF DOOM, etc…) to help me out. I hand-wrote the new parts out on score paper while on the road with Lucky Chops and Morgan knocked it out of the park for me at his home studio in Brooklyn."

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from Accretion, released June 9, 2023
Written, Arranged, & Produced by Reginald Chapman

Personnel:
Reginald Chapman - bass trumpet, synths
Morgan Price - clarinet, flute
Justin Copeland - trumpet
Robert Brooks - tenor sax
Elijah Harris - guitar
Kurt Shelby - bass
James Russell Sims - drums

Recorded live by Reginald Chapman at The Iron Post in Urbana, IL
Woodwinds recorded by Morgan Price in Brooklyn, NY

Mixed by Devonne Harris (DJ Harrison) @ Jellowstone – Richmond, VA

Mastered by Kelly Hibbert @ Almachrome

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