15 and Counting...

Gerald Adams - Trumpet on track 1 and 8, Pocket Trumpet on track 7 and 12, Flugelhorn on all other tracks except 13
Tom Meadows - Bass
Jonathon Dale - Piano
Chris Walton - Drums

Produced by Darren Struss and Gerald Adams
Arrangements by Tom Meadows, Jonathon Dale, Chris Walton and Gerald Adams
Engineered by Darren Struss

Recorded at Trinity Broadcasting, March 6, 2000 - Direct to an Alesis 8-track Digital Audio Recorder, pre-mixed on a Panasonic WR-DA7. Gerald played a Yamaha 4325S Bb Trumpet, Jupiter Bb Pocket Trumpet and an Olds Fullerton Flugelhorn on each of the quartet tracks. Jonathon played a Steinway baby grand piano. Tom played an amplified Sheck acoustic bass. Chris played a Yamaha Stage Custom kit.

Mixed at Trinity Broadcasting, March 11, 2000 - The eight recorded channels were mixed using a 32-channel Panasonic WR-DA7, then transfered to a two-channel Sony mini-disc for mastering.

Mastered at First Generation Video, March 13-14, 2000 - Digitally mastered using Adobe Premier and Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge. Master CD created using Adaptec's Easy CD Creator.

The Songs

1) It Had to Be You - Gus Kahn / Isham Jones

It had to be you, it had to be you
I wandered around, and finally found - the somebody who
Could make me be true, and could make me be blue
And even be glad, just to be sad - thinking of you

Some others I've seen, might never be mean
Might never be cross, or try to be boss, But they wouldn't do
For nobody else, gave me a thrill - with all your faults, I love you still
It had to be you, wonderful you, It had to be you

2) Melancholy Rhapsody - Ray Heindorf / Sammy Cahn

3) Star Dreams - Charlie Spivak

4) Everything I Have is Yours - Burton Lane

The more I'm with you, The more I can see
My love is yours...alone
You came and captured, A heart that was free,
Now there's nothing, I can call my own

Everything I have is yours, You're part of me,
Everything I have is yours, My destiny

I would gladly give the sun to you, If the sun were only mine,
I would gladly give the earth to you, And the stars that shine

Everything that I possess, I offer you,
That my dream of happiness, Come true
I'd be happy just to spend my life, Waiting at your beck and call,
Everything I Have is yours, My life...My all...

Let my dream of happiness, Come true,
Happy happy, Just to spend my life, Waiting at your beck and call

Everything I have is yours, Everything I have is yours,
Everything I have is yours, My life............., My......All.........

5) Misty - Errol Garner

Look at me, I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree;
And I feel like I'm clingin' to a cloud, I can't understand
I get misty, just holding your hand

Walk my way, And a thousand violins begin to play,
Or it might be the sound of your hello, That music I hear,
I get misty, the moment you're near

Can't you see that you're leading me on? And it's just what I want you to do,
Don't you notice how hopelessly I'm lost, That's why I'm following you.

On my own, When I wander through this wonderland alone,
Never knowing my right foot from my left, My hat from my glove
I'm too misty, and too much in love.
Too misty, And too much In love.....

6) Moon Glow - Will Hudson / Edgar DeLange / Irving Mills

It must have been that moonglow, Way up in the blue
It must have been moonglow, That led me straight to you
I still hear you saying, "Dear one, hold me fast"
And I start in praying, Oh lord, please let this last

We seemed to float right thru the air
Heavenly songs seemed to come from ev'ry where
And now when there's moonglow, Way up in the blue
I always remember that moonglow gave you me

7) Speak Low - Ogden Nash / Kurt Weill

Speak low, When you speak love our summer day withers away too soon, too soon
Speak low, When you speak love our moment is swift like ships adrift, were swept apart too soon

Speak low darling, speak low, Love is a spark lost in the dark too soon, too soon
I feel, wherever I go, that tomorrow is here, tomorrow is near and always too soon

Time is so old, love's so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief
We're late darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends too soon, too soon
I wait, darling, I wait, When you speak low to me, speak love to me and soon

8) The Moon Was Yellow - Bing Crosby

The moon was yellow and the night was young
A smile brought us together, And I was wond'ring whether, We'd meet again some day

The moon was yellow and a song was sung
That vocal inspiration gave me the inclination, To give my heart away!

Here we are. Is our romance to continue?
Will it be my luck to win you? May I look that far?

Ah! My love is mellow and my hopes are strung,
Around that cupid fellow, Behold! The moon is yellow, And the night is young

9) Once in a While - Michael Edwards / Bud Green

Once in a while will you try to give one little thought to me,
Though someone else maybe nearer your heart
Once in a while will you dream of the moments I shared with you,
Moments before we two drifted apart

In love's smoldering ember, one spark may remain,
If love still can remember the spark may burn again
I know that I'll be contented with yesterday's memory,
Knowing you think of me once in a while

10) Christmas Time is Here - Vince Guaraldi

Christmastime is here, happiness and cheer,
Fun for all that children call, their favorite time of year
Snowflakes in the air, carols everywhere
Oh that we could always see such spirit through the year

Snowflakes in the air, music everywhere
Yuletide by the fireside, and joyful memories there
Christmastime is here, we'll be drawing near
Oh that we could always see such spirit through the year

11) Melancholy Serenade - Jackie Gleason

12) Satin Doll - Duke Ellington

Cigarette holder which wigs me, over her shoulder, she digs me
Out cattin', that satin doll
Baby, shall we go out skippin? Careful, amigo, you're flippin'
Speaks Latin, that satin doll

She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be
I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me, swich-e-rooney
Telephone numbers well you know, doing my rhumbas with uno
And that'n, my satin doll

13) Toot Toot Tootsie, Goodbye - Ernie Erdman / Gus Kahn / Ted Fiorito

Yesterday I heard a lover sigh: goodbye, oh me, oh my
Seven times he got aboard his train, and seven times he hurried back to kiss his love again
Toot Toot Tootsie, Goodbye, Toot Toot Tootsie, don't cry
The choo choo train that takes me, away from you, no words can tell how sad it makes me
Kiss me Tootsie and then, do it over again
Watch for the mail, I never fail, If you don't a get a little then you know I'm in jail
Don't cry Tootsie, Don't cry, Toot Toot Tootsie, Goodbye

14) Gone With The Wind - Herb Magison / Ally Rubel

Snow is softly falling, From the old Magnolia tree
Another cold winter comes calling, I can't believe you're leaving me
I watch you from the window, Of a mansion with just two rooms
Some peaches grow wild in Georgia, I guess you've got some growing to do

And you're gone with the wind, You keep blowing in and out of my life again
Our neverending love just ended again, Like a sweet Southern breeze, You're gone with the wind
I guess you'll capture Atlanta, I bet you'll put that town on fire
A southern belle without a ring, Is every gentleman's desire

But there's time to turn around, And take me for what I am
Before the rebel in me, Sets you free and says, "I don't give a damn!"
And you're gone with the wind, You keep blowing in and out of my life again
Our neverending love just ended again, Like a sweet Southern breeze, You're gone with the wind

Oh the cotton fields are calling, The willows weep for you
Darling my tears are falling, They cover Dixie like the dew
And you're gone with the wind, You keep blowing in and out of my life again
Our neverending love just ended again, Like a sweet Southern breeze, You're gone with the wind

15) Blue Moon - Richard Rodgers

Blue Moon, You saw me standing alone.
Without a dream in my heart, Without a love of my own.

Blue Moon, You know just what I was there for.
You heard me saying a prayer for, Someone I really could care for.

And then there suddenly appeared before me, The only one my arms will hold.
I heard somebody whisper please adore me, And when I looked to the Moon it turned to gold.

Blue Moon, Now I'm no longer alone.
Without a dream in my heart, Without a love of my own

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold

I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked the Moon had turned to gold

Blue Moon, Now I'm no longer alone.
Without a dream in my heart, Without a love of my own