Lorenzo Bombacini
Lorenzo Bombacini is the Baritone Sax player, and Band Leader of Bononia Sound Machine (BSM) a great Horn band based in Bononia Italy. They are often in our rotation, as witnessed by our current playlist that includes three of their songs. BSM’s most recent CD, “Funky Dreams” has several current, and former members of Tower Of Power as guest artists, and many of the arrangements, were written by former TOP member, and current leader of “East Bay Soul” Greg Adams.
This past February 18th, East Bay Soul released their second CD “East Bay Soul 2.0” and Lorenzo was asked to play at their CD release party. Lorenzo had recorded one of the songs “The Love Of My Life” playing the Baritone on the song. At the end of this article is the video of Lorenzo sitting in with East Bay Soul.
Lorenzo wanted to share with everyone the story of how he first met Gret Adams:
Lorenzo writes: In 1998 a was in London for a vacation with my girlfriend.
At that time there were a lot of internet cafès. One day we stopped into one, I decided to take a look to the TOP website and I see a message posted on the TOP message board by the great Greg Adams.
Greg was my idol, and I immediately replyed to his post, writing how much I like his arrangements and his style. My message went something like this: “Dear Greg, thank you very much for the wonderful arrangements you wrote for TOP. You’re my hero! I also liked the job you did for Diane Schuur’s CD “Blues for Schuur”. You can write a private message to my personal email address if you want. Ciao Lorenzo”
While I’m sending this message my girlfriend says :”He won’t ever write you a private message……he’s to busy”. I say “You’re right…”.
A couple of days after, I go to the same Internet Cafè. Taking a look at my emails I see a private message from Greg! Oh boy, what a thrill!!!
That was my first meeting with Greg.
After that first message a virtual friendship started between Greg and I. We wrote a lot of messages to each other, talking about music and his experience with TOP and other great musicians.
One day I say “Dear Greg, as you know I play in a horn based band and I’d really like to see one of your arrangements. I’m so curious to see how you use the horns and mix the voices”.
He says “Sure, tell me which song you like”. You can imagine my surprise! At that point I say “I’d really like to see the arrangement of You Got To Funkifize but I’ve nothing to trade for it so….let me know what’s the price”.
Greg says “Dear Lorenzo, you live in Bologna, Italy. Send me the recipe of the Ragù alla Bolognese (Bolognese Sauce) and I’ll send you the arrangement…”.
THAT’S GREG ADAMS
For more on BSM you can check out their page here at Horn Driven Radio click the link in Red Bononia Sound Machine.
For more on East Bay Soul go to www.eastbaysoul.com
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