Grammy Winners on The Action Catalyst
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We're taking a look back at a pair of Grammy-nominated and Grammy-winning artists that we've had the pleasure of welcoming to The Action Catalyst. We begin with Freddie Revelle, a virtuoso piano player and more, who has performed with some of the biggest names in music, and co-produced and wrote the title track, as well as performed on the George Benson and Al Jarreau album, Given It Up, which won four Grammys in 2007 and was nominated for a fifth.
Freddie, thank you for gracing us today with your presence, with your talents, and with your message.
Thanks for having me, Dan. It's great to be speaking to you and my friends in Music City.
Well, that is great. When I look over your background, your resume, you have traveled and performed and composed with so many people, from Sergio Mendez. You've learned from Deepak Chopra, with Al Jarreau, with Carlos Santana, so many more. Badia! When you got involved with the Earth, Wind & Fire.
When they hired me, that was the golden age of keyboards. You would walk on stage with about five or six keyboards all around you. So I played synthesizers and organs and clavinets and string parts and electric piano and acoustic piano and all kinds of different sounds. And in addition to playing... They asked me to compose, produce, and also serve as their musical director while I was doing these things. So I had the great honor to work with those horns, that rhythm section, those amazing vocals. I'd say that was definitely one of the highlights of my journey. Well, what does a musical director do during a concert, during a live performance? A musical director during the concert may do some conducting, may hold out their hand to signal something. But at that level, when you're working with a band of that caliber, all the work already occurred at rehearsal. By the time you hit the stage, it's time to have fun. And the steps, the arrangements, the execution of all that has already been well rehearsed. Oh, OK.
but it's a matter of being very aware of what's going on around you and audience reaction and all the rest of that at the same time. Absolutely.
It's a bit like being a conductor in an orchestra, but they call it musical directing when it's in the world of pop music.
Well, I also know one of the big influences on you was your time spent with Deepak Chopra. Can you expand on that for us, please?
Yeah, Deepak Chopra moved to the West Coast in 1992 as Dr. Deepak Chopra, and he wasn't as big and famous yet at that time. He was an endocrinologist who had moved in from Boston out to LA. And one of the people that serves as the PR person for another great thought leader, Marianne Williamson, invited me. She was representing Deepak as well. And she suggested to Deepak that we get together and compose music. And we did meet, and Deepak and I connected immediately. And he was very interested in spreading the news of a piece called Slip in the Gap, which was a concept of meditation. Now, for me as a musician, I perceived it as the space between the notes, whereas in meditation, you would call it the space between thoughts.
And we decided that we would bridge these two worlds, the space between the notes and the space between thoughts, into this song called Slip in the Gap, which I co-wrote with a lady by the name of Anjani and Verdine White of Earth, Wind and Fire. So we all got together. We put this piece together. This was in 1993. And it came out on my second album, Soul to Soul, and did very, very well.
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