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WE ARE CONSTANTLY WORKS IN PROGRESS

2024 ALBUM




Featured artists on this album are Roger Wilder on piano; Gerald Spaits on bass; Morgan Rogers on drums with special musical guests Terri Anderson Burnett and Freda Proctor on flutes; WM Thornton on tenor saxophone; Greg Carroll on vibraphone; Will Matthews on guitar. LINER NOTES are finished for the album we’re recording in December at BRC Audio Productions in Kansas City. We’ll add the individual track duration times during postproduction. Avalon Video Services from Lawrence is also documenting this project.


RECORDING DAY 1



ALWAYS

INFINITY

LATER

CbQ PERSONNEL

C. Burnett, alto saxophone; R. Wilder, piano; G. Spaits, bass; M. Rogers, drums

ENGINEER AND PRODUCER

William Crain, BRC Audio Productions

VIDEOGRAPHER AND DOCUMENTARIAN

Gordon Brown, Avalon Video Services


RECORDING DAY 2



FINALLY

MAYBE

CbQ PERSONNEL+:

C. Burnett, alto saxophone; R. Wilder, piano; G. Spaits, bass; M. Rogers, drums with Terri Anderson Burnett and Freda Proctor, flutes; Greg Carroll, vibraphone

ENGINEER AND PRODUCER

William Crain, BRC Audio Productions

VIDEOGRAPHER AND DOCUMENTARIAN

Gordon Brown, Avalon Video Services

YESTERYEARS

CbQ PERSONNEL+:

C. Burnett, alto saxophone; R. Wilder, piano; G. Spaits, bass; M. Rogers, drums with Willie Meyers Thornton, tenor saxophone; Will Matthews, guitar

ENGINEER AND PRODUCER

William Crain, BRC Audio Productions

VIDEOGRAPHER AND DOCUMENTARIAN

Gordon Brown, Avalon Video Services


ALBUM: “ORIGINALS” (ARC-3442) by Christopher Burnett (BMI)



The music will be released on the Artists Recording Collective + ARC Recording Label and available worldwide. I’m very excited about this work and all six pieces of music that make up “ORIGINALS.” Looking forward to sharing this music with you!


MUSIC DEMOS + SHEET MUSIC


PURCHASE THE SHEET MUSIC FROM SHEET MUSIC PLUS (HAL LEONARD)


MOCKUP AUDIO of Track 1 “FINALLY”


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VIDEO CLIP of Track 2 “ALWAYS”


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MOCKUP AUDIO of Track 3 “MAYBE”


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VIDEO CLIP of Track 4 “INFINITY”


PURCHASE THE SHEET MUSIC FROM SHEET MUSIC PLUS (HAL LEONARD)


MOCKUP AUDIO of Track 5 “LATER”


PURCHASE THE SHEET MUSIC FROM SHEET MUSIC PLUS (HAL LEONARD)


MOCKUP AUDIO of Track 6 “YESTERYEARS”


REHEARSAL GALLERY


SHE’S MY FAMILY. TOGETHER, WE ARE HOME. (BURNETTFAMILYUS.ORG)

PHOTO GALLERY: Piano and Drums rehearsing with the Flutes


LINER NOTES PDF


DOWNLOAD THE LINER NOTES


RELEASE DATE IS 03/23/2024



We have everything for our new album “ORIGINALS” (ARC-3442) set up in advance for distribution and the release date is set for our 45th anniversary, 03/23/2024



REFERENCES + MEDIA QUOTE



“Saxophonist, educator, and military band veteran Christopher L. Burnett is known for his warm and lyrical jazz sound. Following a 20-plus year military career, during which he taught and performed, Burnett embarked on fruitful university teaching, as well as a performance career. He continued to perform in his native Kansas, releasing albums like 2013’s Time Stamps, 2014’s Firebird, and 2021’s The Standards Vol. 1.”

— Matt Collar / AllMusic, TIVO (ALLMUSIC.COM)

THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING ENTITIES FOR YOUR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES



Learn more at ChristopherBurnett.us


(ARTICLE)
Musings In Cb: “WE ARE CONSTANTLY WORKS IN PROGRESS”

PHOTO by Corinna Gray Photography (2023)

Christopher and Terri (Anderson) Burnett established their branch of The Burnett Family in March of 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark. They are professional musicians, educators, and entrepreneurs based in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area.

SQUIRREL 1 – ME 0

Yes, I’m a country boy from Paola, Kansas but my country boy game is now admittedly pretty weak.

I left Paola to strike out on my own almost 50 years ago and have subsequently lived in a wide variety of large cities and small towns in the United States and also some countries in Europe over those decades.

I have lost my country boy edge.



You would think that I could still tell the difference between squirrel scat and that from a rat or mouse.

I thought we had a rat or field mouse visiting us at night. Even had our exterminator company leave a humane trap to catch and relocate whichever.

Not so. Mystery solved.

I just caught the culprit (a cute bushy tailed squirrel) on his noontime pooping rounds today.



I am having to clean up after this dude a couple times a week.

Thanks to my sister Dr. Mary Jane Burnett for a solution: “Purchase some Repel All and sprinkle it where the poop was and you won’t have that problem. I buy mine from Home Depot.”

She further suggested: “I mix the granules with my grass seed when I overseed to keep the birds from eating them.”

Besides being smarter than me, my sister has maintained her connection to such things from our childhood.

Our neighbor’s uncle Marwood Lindsey used to take all of us as kids out hiking in the woods and along the nearby Bull Creek. We learned about nature on all levels from him. It was cool.

(ARTICLE)
Musings In Cb: “SQUIRREL 1 – ME 0”

PHOTO by Corinna Gray Photography (2023)

Christopher and Terri (Anderson) Burnett established their branch of The Burnett Family in March of 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark. They are professional musicians, educators, and entrepreneurs based in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area.