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Author's Note (PLEASE READ):

Thank you again for watching. This video is one of great personal significance to me as music is often inspired by people and the relationships I've cultivated. I originally wrote this song back in 2006 for a very important person, my high school band teacher Nick Fanner (often called the "Fan Man"). Nick has always been an encouraging and inspiring force in my life, and without him I might not be on the career path I am now. With him I studied the saxophone family, french horn, piano, guitar, and even some drums covering styles ranging from wind orchestra music, to Django Reinhardt to contemporary jazz, latin, swing and the like. He truly loves music and truly exemplifies what it takes to be a great teacher, a steadfast and unbiased dedication to learning with a positive, encouraging and embracing attitude.

Initially I wrote this song as an uptempo latin tune... big mistake! However with time and study I've learned a few things and 5 years later decided to give the song a complete overhaul and arrange it for solo jazz piano. I liked my original melody and harmony, which I deemed were typical of most standard jazz, but I decided to thicken it up by arranging it with lush voicings, reharmonization, and counterpoint/movement in the inner voices. It took a lot of work but I'm very pleased with the result. If enough people show interest, I am thinking of putting together a video about how I arranged and constructed "Fan Man" and my thoughts on things like jazz reharmonization and arrangement.

Besides writing and arranging the tune, I also performed, recorded, mixed and produced it (not to mention filmed and edited the video). Although this is mostly a one-man production (totalling over 60 hours of work and a budget of $100) I had some help.

Special thanks to:
Joel Kesler for the album artwork: http://www.joelkesler.com/
Nathan Carter Moore for mastering the audio: http://www.ncmsound.com/
Richard Haubrich for letting me record at The Bassment jazz club in my hometown of Saskatoon, SK. This was recorded on Wednesday June 22, 2011.

I recorded this with Pro Tools using my Neumann TLM 103 and Apex 435 microphones through my Presonus Firepod Interface.

If you have any questions or comments I'd love to hear them. I hope to be churning out more original material as I'm becoming more confident with my musical ideas and how I present them. Be sure to subscribe to keep up to date with my latest works!

Thanks again for watching! Cheers

-Andrew