Album Notes

Salt Lake City Blues

This song, (original name: "I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City" is an Expose'of Mark's style on his instruments set-up that he invented and made himself.
He plays piano and Hammond organ with his left foot on a fifteen note pedal keyboard with the lowest note at B/flat sixteen foot. Most commercial bass pedals end at low C. (bad for most jazz tunes). This enables him to play stride piano style in appropriate jazz keys, plus organ bass.
To change from piano to organ takes less than three seconds. Drawbars and other parameters can be quickly changed by finger to a novel touch-screen fitted to a lap-top computer that carries the hammond organ program. Leslie speed is changed by a foot-controlled mouse fitted to the stereo swell- pedal.

Amplification is by Yamaha 200w per channel mixer into 200w Etone 3Way bins. When the bins are placed 10 to 12 feet apart, a wonderful stereo effect is created. The controller keyboard is split for organ and panned for piano to allow left hand to sound in the left bin, and right hand to sound in the right bin. Bass sounds are panned in the centre.

The bass pedals control the 15 lowest notes on a DX100 Yamaha keyboard. "Hey"! Whoa!!, yell the keyboardists. (hate that term). The DX100 finishes on lower C. How can you get the B and B/flat notes below C"???
Contact Mark and he will show you how it is done, free! This stereo effect makes the full set-up a real pleasure to play. All keyboards are MIDI-connected to eliminate hum and distortion.

Added to this electronic wonder are added trumpet and vocals that run on natural gas! A gas,Man! Listen and enjoy
this live recorded work of art played by Mark with no dubbing, sequences or backing by 3d an hour Philipinos.

Comment From:
Thiago Pelligrino, FM Prodocues Rio, Brasil.

Dear Mark,
Great to find you here on Myspace!! I have worked a lot this year and I'm goanna open my Market horizons booking concerts in Asia and Africa. In Australia I didn't get anything yet, but this is on my list for 2010. I have to bring my artists there!
Very nice the MP3 you sent me of "Salt Lake City Blues", I liked so much!! You play the keys, the trumpet and sing also! Everything you do very well, it should be a nice gig you doing there!
Hugs mate! Keep in touch!
Thiago.

***** Review: The Soul Of Australian Jazz Oct 1 2009
By: M. Perazzetti "Radio Mike" (Asheville, NC) [See all my reviews]

I have known Mark and his music since I played it on my internet dadio show several years ago, and I have read his reminiscences available elsewhere. Mark has more heart and soul than most musicians, and he puts both into everything he does. He is the keeper of a flame that only exists in a few places. He knows more jazz history than anyone else I know, especially from theGolden Age of Australian jazz. Most importantly he plays jazz like an indie rocker. He lives and breathes music and his recordings are witness to that. His recordings are the next best thing to actually being there. Enjoy his magic
version of this fine blues tune.