Julius Rodriguez gets experimental with debut album Let the Sound Tell All
Rodriguez says it’s “the first song I wrote that wasn’t a traditional jazz song, since there’s no solo section.” He says he struggled for years figuring out what to do with it, until in 2019 he asked trumpeter Giveton Gelin to solo over the recording.
Blown away by what Gelin sent back to him, Rodriguez couldn’t pick any of Gelin’s three takes, opting to use all of them at the same time, a production technique adapted from famed producer George Martin and his work with The Beatles. The result is a complex melodic structure on an overdubbed trumpet, paying homage to Roy Hargrove and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with a distinctly psychedelic character.
Here’s the track listing:
- Blues at the Barn
- All I Do
- Interlude
- Gift of the Moon
- Two Way Street
- Where Grace Abounds
- Elegy (for Cam)
- In Heaven
- Philip’s Thump
Julius Rodriguez’s Let the Sound Tell All will be released June 10 on Verve Records.