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I started this post as a list of topics to cover in some lectures I’m giving on arranging—and I got a bit carried away. Over the past few years, I’ve been doing more and more: from contributing one or two charts as part of a team to putting together entire shows. Artists I’ve worked with in the last 18 months include TechN9ne, Killer Mike, Tobe Nwigwe, Kem, Busta Rhymes, Ledisi, Sia, Dua Lipa, Sophie Hunger, Guster, Parkway Drive, Big Sean, Joe Bonamassa, Ibrahim Maalouf, the…
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For the last 10 years or so, I have been lucky enough to work on shows for the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and the National Symphony Orchestra. This started with NAS and the Twentieth Anniversary performance of Illmatic, continued with Kendrick Lamar, Common, Babyface, Maxwell, Ne-Yo and, most recently, Killer Mike. Along the way, I have done one-offs for many other shows and orchestras and whole shows for Aminé and Tech N9ne. The process for putting these shows together has evolved over the years to…
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Besides the usual film and television work, I've also had a number of arranging projects come my way this year. A number of them have been for my friend Jules Buckley. The first was a concert in June with the BBC Symphony Orchestra titled "Beyond the Bricks of Brum," celebrating the city of Birmingham. I arranged a few tunes for SANITY and also composed a piece to play with a poem by Casey Bailey. The BBC Symphony Orchestra: Beyond the Bricks of Brum Then a…
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