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BASS GUITAR > JERRY RIZZI

All Songs

TENOR SAX/SOPRANO SAX/FLUTE > SLY SCOTT

Light of Day/Tenor Sax, Sometimes/Soprano Sax Remembrance/Tenor Sax, Paradox/Soprano Sax Unsung Hero/Flute, River of Sorrows/3 Instruments & Needless To Say/Soprano Sax

ELECTRIC & ACOUSTIC GUITARS » DAVID DOIG

Light of Day/Sometimes, Remembrance, River of Sorrows/4th Movement & Needless To Say

DRUMS > MIKE GREENFIELD

Light of Day/Sometimes, Remembrance, River of Sorrows/ 4th Movement & Needless To Say

VIRTUAL DRUMS » GARY WADE

River of Sorrows/1 st, 2nd, & 3rd movement & Interlude Section

CLARINET » NAOMI DRUCKER & STANLEY DRUCKER

A Quiet Gray & Inclination

KEYBOARDS/SYNTHESIZER

Gary Wade

River of Sorrows, 1 st, 2nd, & 3rd movements & interlude section Rick Botari This Brief Encounter

RECORDING ENGINEERS

Gary Wade/Levelhead Studios

Paradox, Unsung Hero, Lazy Days/Passionate Nights & River of Sorrows, 1st, 2nd, & 3rd movements & interlude section

Mike Sapone/Sapone Productions

Light of Day/Sometimes, Remembrance, River of Sorrows/4th movement & Needless To Say

Norman Greenspan/Independent

A Quiet Gray & Inclination

Rick Botari/lndependent

This Brief Encounter

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Paradox, Unsung Hero and Lazy Days/Passionate Nights are from a collection of duets For bass guitar and varying wind instruments.

A Quiet Gray & Inclination were recorded live at an American Chamber Ensemble concert at Hofstra University, Long Island, N.Y., September 18, 1994. Stanley Drucker • Principle clarinetist for The New York Philharmonic. Naomi Drucker • Clarinetist and co-founder of The American Chamber Ensemble. Both works are dedicated to and inspired by The American Chamber Ensemble.

All songs written by Jerry Rizzi except:
Paradox/Jerry Rizzi & Sly Scott Remembrance/Jerry Rizzi & Sly Scott This Brief Encounter/Jerry Rizzi & Rick Botari River Of Sorrows/Jerry Rizzi & Sly Scott

Special thanks to my family & to the following people: Kelley {for all her support), Nita & Tom (thanks for taking me to 'The Del Rio River" in Colorado which inspired the "River Of Sorrows"), Randy Coven (for all the support/dearly one of the finest bassist there is), Tim Paulson (true believer), Larry Snell & David Abbruzzese (which in many ways brought me back to my music), Danny While, Jimmy Edwards, Mark Aiken & many others in Dallas. To all my friends in Tribecca/NYC. To Sly Scott (Spirituality & musicianship go hand in hand). To everyone involved in the recording. Karen Ocker (combination of artistic ability & dedication). Stanley & Naomi Drucker (the finest musicians I have ever played with). Bobby Kern (reliable source of technical, artistic & graphic information). Offer Sharaby, Jeff James, Eric & John. To David, Kim & Pattie from Baltimore. Chris Palmeri & Joe Martinez. Rick & Rocky. Joe Monk & Jim Garrison. To all my friends in Long Island, New York.

A Quiet Gray

Into the blend from a window gaze
A sparse yet determined green
Peaks through the brown, rust colored montage of crisp fallen leaves
Barren bush and accommodating trees
Enabling and encouraging to look a little further and perhaps reach a little higher
In the silence there is a sense of urgency and too in this silence a serenity
Into the blend of hidden blue
There is a quiet gray

Unsung Hero

Search for the Silent one
The unrecognized, un-noticed one
Neither hint nor glimpse of boastful gratification
Sought out adulation
Just let it be done
A hero unsung
A song from the soul