You Make Me Want To Sing by Peter Sprague

Peter has recorded many of his own albums on the Concord, Xanadu, and SBE record labels and has been a guest artist on many other records. Chick Corea, Hubert Laws, David Benoit, and Sergio Mendes are only but a few of the many great artists Peter has worked with. His debut with the Chick Corea band was a series of concerts at Disneyland on Memorial Day weekend. In a review the following day in the Los Angeles Times, Leonard Feather called Peter "...One of the emergent great guitarists." Peter also worked with Chick on the film score to the movie "The Cat Chasers", starring Kelly McGillis.

Peter is active in the music book world having self-published nine of his own books, (The Sprague Technique, SpragueSongs, Soliloquy Songbook, Blurring the Edges Songbook, BrazilJazz Songbook, Soliloquy Songbook, Jazz Solos of Charlie Parker, Jazz Solos of Sonny Rollins, Jazz Solos of McCoy Tyner, and Assorted Jazz Solos). Peter's The Jazz Solos of Chick Corea is published nationally with Sher Music. Sprague also is the chief organizer and transcriber for Chick Corea's music books. Hal Leonard Publishing has released Chick Corea's Light Years, The Eye Of The Beholder, Inside Out, Chick Corea Collections, Beneath The Mask, and Paint the World, all books executed by Peter.

Peter has been involved with GRP Records on a number of projects. He arraigned Chick Corea's song "Spain" for the GRP All-Star Big Band record and video. This tune was played by the likes of Dave Grusin, Lee Ritenour, Dave Weckl, Ernie Watts, etc. Peter was featured on David Benoit's GRP releases "Letter To Evan" and "Shaken, Not Stirred". Peter toured with pianist David Benoit worldwide for three years. Also on GRP, Sprague played with Eric Marienthal, Russell Ferante, Jimmy Haslip, Alex Acuna, and Ivan Lins on Eric's GRP record "One Touch".

Sprague taught music at both Musicians Institute in Hollywood and California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles for three years.

Peter currently is involved with a group called "Blurring the Edges" whose self released CD was awarded the best contemporary jazz recording of 1994 from the San Diego Music Awards. Peter also has his hands in producing other artists and has been part of over one hundred CD projects. He runs a recording studio called SpragueLand and this is where you'll find him wearing the hat of producer, engineer, guitar player, and arranger. His latest recordings are called "Soliloquy" and "Nikki's Rose" both released on the SBE Record label. Sprague was voted the Best Jazz Musician of the Year 2000 by the San Diego Music Awards organization. Peter wrote and performed a twentyminute guitar concerto composition in May,2000 with the Grossmont Symphony Orchestra. This piece of music was performed with the San Diego Symphony in May, 2002. Sprague has his own website at www.petersprague.com..

You Make Me Want To Sing

This recording marks the beginnings of the group Dance of the Universe. We were already playing a lot of gigs around and the thought of making a record seemed almost out of reach. The band's average age was 21 years old. We gathered the money, found a studio and we tracked six of our favorite tunes. This is a collector's item!

Musicians

Peter Sprague: guitar

Kevyn Lettau: vocals

Tripp Sprague: saxophone

John Leftwich: bass

Kelly Jocoy: drums, percussion

Butch Lacy: piano

Mark Siegel: harmonium

Songs

You Make Me Want To Sing 4:14 Peter Sprague (Satyam Music / BMI )

This Can't Be Love 5:45 Richard Rogers & Lorenz Hart

Carnival Dreams 9:50 Peter Sprague (Satyam Music / BMI )

Dance With The Wind 8:43 Peter Sprague (Satyam Music / BMI )

Skylark 4:00 Hoagy Carmichael

Blues on the Corner 7:30 Peter Sprague (Satyam Music / BMI )

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