"PSYCHOBABBLE" is the latest release by Nick Mancini - vibrophonist, pianist, percussionist, composer, arranger, producer, pretty decent joke teller, and all around good guy.

As the name aptly indicates, this album is an intentional mish-mosh of material from disparate sources across many time periods -- all previously unreleased -- which have been juxtoposed to work well together as a unique (and sometimes crazy!) collection. Some are special "live" performances (spanning across outings in both NYC and L.A.), some are new studio cuts, and others are even full-on midi compositions... (TRACK LISTING AND NOTES UNDER COVER IMAGE AS YOU SCROLL THE PAGE)

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It Could …
by Nick Mancini
Sophisticated Lady
by Billy Strayhorn / Duke Ellington arr. by Nick Mancini
Stablemates
by Benny Golson arr. by Nick Mancini
Little Sally
by Nick Mancini
Some Other Time / I Loves You Porgy
by Leonard Bernstein / by George Gershwin
Collage
by Nick Mancini
Emerald City
by Nick Mancini
Rumours
Intro by Dave Wood/Nick Mancini - Rumours by Nick Mancini
Rhythm-a-ning
by Thelonious Monk
Prelude to a Kiss
by Billy Strayhorn / Duke Ellington

Tk 1 It Could … was recorded in my home in the early part of 2011 and features Nick Mancini on vibes, Kevin Yokota on drums and Garret Smith on bass. It is a melody that I contra-facted over the chord changes to the standard "It Could Happen to You"
~ engineer / mix / master - Nick Mancini

Tk 2 Sophisticated Lady was also recorded in my home in the sumer of 2011 and features Nick Mancini on vibes Kevin Yokota on drums and Edwin Livingston on bass
~ engineer / mix / master - Nick Mancini

Tk 3 Stablemates was recorded at Elevated Audio in Van Nuys and features Nick Mancini on vibes, Pete Korpella on percussion, Greg Swiller on bass and Andy Sanesi on drums. This is an arrangement I did of Benny's tune "Stablemates" that I set in 13/8 time.
~ engineer / mix / master - Nick Mancini

Tk 4 Little Sally was recorded at Studio 4 in Manhattan about 8 years ago and features Nick Mancini on Fender Rhodes, Dan Freeman on bass, Dave Berger on drums and Dave Wood on bass. This group used to get together on a weekly basis and create full fledged tunes from nothing but abase line improvised at the session.
~ engineer - Dave Sampson mix / master - Paul Vasquez

Tk 5 Some Other Time / I Loves You Porgy was recorded at The Atelier piano concerts. This was the day that Otmaro Ruiz and I first presented our duo project to the public. Each of us were featured as a soloist as well as our duo playing and these two songs were prominent in my life at the time.
~ engineer / mix - info TBA master - Nick Mancini

Tk 6 Collage is a piece that I wrote many years ago and finally took the time to realize in a fully digital medium using the computer software, Logic a MacBook Pro and a 25 key keyboard to trigger the samples. There are no real instruments anywhere not he track. A testament to where music production technology has advanced.
~ engineer / mix / master - Nick Mancini

Tk 7 Emerald City was recorded around 2000 at Shabby Roads Studios in NYC's Williamsburg neighborhood, overlooking the Hudson River and Lower East Side of Manhattan. It features Nick Mancini on vibes, Matt Clohesy on bass and Take Toreyama on drums. Take took his life after suffering from intense depression just years after we tracked this. It's an original piece of music that I composed on a Casio keyboard while visiting with family in Upstate NY one Thanksgiving.
~ engineer - Roger Greenwald mix - Paul Vasquez master - Nick Mancini

Tk 8 Rumours - the intro to this piece was recorded at Shabby Roads Studio as well in 2002 and features Nick Mancini on vibes and Dave Wood on guitar and loops. At the time, Dave and I were getting together on a regular basis and playing for hours with no preconceived direction or focus. The result was staggering wyeilding 100's of hours of freely-improvised, beautifully crafted music. Rumours is a original piece that I wrote around the same time, and is from the same session as Emerald City with Nick Mancini on vibes / melodica / tinkly things, Take Toreyama on drums and Matt Clohesy on bass.
~ engineer Roger Greenwald mix - Paul Vasquez master - Nick Mancini

Tk 9 Rhythm-a-ning is pulled from another session in early 2011 at my home in Toluca Lake and features Nick Mancini on vibes / Fender Rhodes, Garret Smith on bass and Kevin Yokota on drums. We had just finished listening to a killer live Sonny Rollins cd and decided to let it all hang out. In a day and age where even jazz recordings are being condensed for "listenability", it's refreshing to hear a band stretch and dwell in the moment.
~ engineer / mix / master - Nick Mancini

Tk 10 Prelude to a Kiss is simply one of my favorite tunes by Strayhorn to play and particularly on piano. I was performing with my group at Alva's Showroom in San Pedro CA. We did not have a piano player, but the piano was made available anyway. I walked over to it, sat down and started playing. This came out. Funny enough, I ended up mastering it from ambient sound picked up by the other mics in the room since there was not one directly on the piano. A testament to the awesome acoustics in the room and the warmth, body and projection of that particular piano.
~ engineer Larry (sound guy at Alva's) master - Nick Mancini