These "Trios and such" bring together longtime musical collaborators...it's a reunion of old musical friends.

The "Trios and such" musicians...

Ms. Bobbye Hall, percussion (congas, bongos, shaker, maracas, chimes and triangle).
Bobbye has played percussion on countless hit songs and albums. She joined the famed Motown rhythm section at age fourteen, playing percussion on dozens of big Motown hits like I Heard It Through The Grapevine and For Once In My Life.

Bobbye has played percussion on recordings by Joni Mitchell (For The Roses, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Hejira, Dreamland), James Taylor (Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight), Stevie Wonder (Songs In The Key Of Life, et.al.), Bob Dylan (Street Legal, et.al.), Bill Withers (Ain't No Sunshine, Lean On Me), Janis Joplin (Pearl), Carole King (Music, Fantasy, et.al.)--[it was Carole King who gave Bobbye the 'Ms.' nickname.]...Stevie Nicks, U2, Seals & Crofts, Boz Scaggs, Bob Seger...the list goes on and on. Brad and Bobbye have performed together many times over the past fifteen years, but this is their first CD collaboration.

On Time of Tranquility, Bobbye adds her percussion magic to the tracks Bells of Eventide, Tulip Festival, Coloratura, Breaking Bread, and Light In The Night (Luz En La Noche).

 

Melissa "Missy" Hasin, cello. Missy was born in Hollywood and raised in Newport Beach, California. Her parents wanted her to focus on classical music, but her experience playing electric bass in blues and rock bands as a teenager, coupled with influences like Jaco Pastorius and John Patitucci, led her to become a leading jazz cellist in the country. As a session musician, Missy has worked with a wide range of artists from Barbra Streisand and Natalie Cole, to No Doubt (which used Missy on its 1996 hit "Don't Speak") and gangsta rapper Snoop Dogg. Others she has recorded with include David Benoit, Teddy Edwards, Tori Amos, John Tesh, and Melissa Manchester. On stage she has backed Sammy Davis, Jr., Smokey Robinson, Frank Sinatra in 1996, and Led Zeppelin alumni Robert Plant & Jimmy Page in 1997.

On Time of Tranquility, Missy plays on The Chef's Sonata, Adagio, Twilight Tango, A Playful Appassionata, and Celestial Concertina.

 

Jim Sitterly is featured here on violin, mandolin and concertina. Jim Sitterly holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from USC, and has studied violin under Henri Temianka and other great teachers. Dr. Sitterly is the concertmaster of the South Central Chamber Orchestra--a multi-ethnic organization which records for such luminaries as Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie, Macy Grey, Stevie Wonder, Lucy Pearl, Tribe Called Quest, Qtip, Raphael Shadiq, and other artists. He is concertmaster of the television show orchestras for LOST and ALIAS, and has been featured violinist on commerical jingles for Albertson’s, Intel, Adidas, Taco Bell, Visa, Washington Mutual and Sizzler. He is concertmaster/solo violinist for John Tesh, and has played on 10 of his CDs, 4 DVDs, and over 500 concerts in this capacity.

On Time of Tranquility, Jim plays violin on The Chef's Sonata, Adagio, Twilight Tango, and A Playful Appassionata, the concertina on Celestial Concertina, and mandolin on Tulip Festival and Mariner's Grace.

 

Gilberto Hildavio - alto flute, English horn and recorder. A multi-woodwind artist, Hildavio plays all flutes (piccolo to bass flute, Native American wood flute, Irish flute, et.al.), oboe and English horn, clarinets, saxes, penny whistle, and more. Hildavio has performed with a wide-array of artists, including Sergio Mendez, Diana Krall, Kenny Rodgers, Barry Manilow, The Manhattan Transfer, Melissa Manchester, The Four Tops, Percy Faith, Glenn Close (Sunset Blvd.), and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed throughout much of the world, including Asia and Europe, with several music tours of Brazil and Japan. In his spare time, Hildavio teaches Yoga.

On Time of Tranquility, Hildavio plays alto flute on Togetherness, Coloratura, Centerpiece, Light In The Night (Luz En La Noche), and recorder on Mariner's Grace. On Lady of The Sea, he represents 2/3 of the trio, playing both alto flute and English horn.

 

Paul Seaforth is featured playing flugelhorn on the track Breaking Bread. Paul has a Masters degree in Classical Trumpet Performance from the University of California, Irvine, and has performed around the world, from Carnegie Hall to Tchaikovsky Hall in Russia. He has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Eric Marienthal, Brandon Fields, Russell Garcia, George Graham, Dash Crofts, Vic Damone, Louie Shelton, Lincoln Mayorga, Pat Boone, Dan Seals, Tierney Sutton, Buddy Childers, Bill Watrous and others. Paul even performed on an episode of The Gilmore Girls, along with The Swing Dolls--introduced by Rory Gilmore. Paul is a "triple-threat" musician: besides being a great trumpet and flugelhorn player, he is a soulful saxophonist, and sings like a blend of Chet Baker--Kenny Rankin--Michael Bublé. Catch Paul's latest CD release "Something Real"---it's wonderful!

 

Ernie Nunez, string bass. Ernie has recorded and toured with The Brian Setzer Orchestra and Les Brown's Band of Renown, Charles Rutherford's Pacific Jazz Orchestra, Shades of Jade, Peggy Duquesnel Trio, Paul Seaforth, Tracy Wells, Scott Martin Latin Soul Band, and many other artists. Ernie is equally at home in jazz and latin sessions, classical ensembles and symphony orchestras, as well as the popular and eclectic genres. In fact, if you've got VW bus and wear a Jerry Garcia tie, you've likely heard his bass playing on the eclectic tribute CD: Swingin' to the Grateful Dead.

In this, Ernie's third Candlelight Guitarist CD, Ernie is featured on Bells of Eventide and Tulip Festival as well as laying down the bass lines on Togetherness, Coloratura, Centerpiece, and Light In The Night (Luz En La Noche).

 

And, of course, The Candlelight Guitarist, Brad Powell, plays the guitar and composed the music...with love, to all who give a listen and "light a candle!"

 

 

 

 

about Watercolor Odyssey...
                   instrumental music cycle

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music defines Music cycle as:

"Name for series of items written to be perf. as...linked thematically either musically or by subject, esp. song-cycle (Ger. Liedercyclus ). In opera the greatest cycle (4 operas) is Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen"

ABOUT the Watercolor Cover Art:

Time of Tranquility and other CDs in the Watercolor Odyssey series feature watercolor cover art by Brad's mother, Dorothy Powell, who at 93 years young, is an active painter in her community of Anacortes, Washington. Dorothy began painting at the age of 57, after her husband, Hayward (Brad's dad), passed away. She has won "Best of Show" and many other honors in county fair and local art shows, and sold many paintings and notecards featuring her artwork. She's an active member and past-president of Artists Northwest -an association of artists in Northwest Washington.

ABOUT the Nature Sounds: