So like I was saying, the Haven Street CDs finally arrived.
They were supposed to be here a couple weeks ago, but UPS lost the shipment. Most likely it was stolen and some guys were selling it out on Times Square. So CD Baby had to do a whole nuther print run. The ones that went to their inventory stayed in house, so I went and bought a copy of the web site just to have one. Also for some reason they set up two pages for the record, one for the digital download and another for the CD, so we had to have them combine the two. At least CD Baby’s customer service has been good about taking care of things once we alerted them.
Other things are coming along in connection with promoting the record. We have a facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/HavenStreetJazz
And you can now buy or stream the record from iTunes and Spotify, in addition to CD Baby. Amazon coming soon.
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/havenstreet
https://open.spotify.com/album/6uy7zstk0n89MDAKQgKC7a?fo=1
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/haven-street/1381177192?mt=1&app=music
Also look for an update to the Haven Street page on my web site coming soon.
Since I was the one to do the design for the album art, I was greatly relieved to actually see it in print and that everything came out the way I planned. You never quite know, cuz things never look exactly the same on the screen, or even if you print it on a printer. But the colors and tones are all good, the layouts line up, everything is legible and spelled correctly, and overall the design creates the right kind of mood.
I should mention that the pictures of the musicians were taken at the recording session by Ed Brydon, a friend of the band. The rest were taken by me, walking around with Gary one cloudy day outside our rehearsal space. We had the idea that we could try and use a street sign, and I ended up getting all these really interesting images of telephone poles and wires, which I then used as the main compositional element.
Reminder: Haven Street is playing live at the Green Growler in Croton, Thursday May 3, 9:00 PM. We had a great rehearsal this week, with all the songs from the record and few new tunes, all sounding great. Promises to be an excellent show.