I've been working with all kinds of musicians lately. Whether it be composing small classical works, playing with jazz groups, or making beats (many will be posted soon). But one gig that has been a lot of fun and recently has been taking off is the work I do with an R&B cat named Rotimi. Rotimi is a Northwestern Student and talented R&B singer. Things have been going well for him lately, earlier this year he opened and performed with T.I. and worked with the Jabbawockeez. I started working with him in the fall and decided that we could link up and step up his live performances with a live band. So we picked out a couple of his tracks that I then arranged for a rhythm and horn section. After I found some interested musicians to play things took off from there. Last night we performed a set at a Northwestern University benefit for over 1,300 people.
You can catch a video of our performance here. I did a little singing on "No Diggity". Other songs during the performance included covers Kanye West's "Flashing Lights", Snoop Dogg's "Sexual Eruption", and T.I's "Live Your Life/Whatever You Like" and a slew of Rotimi originals arranged for the band.
The gigs continue with performances at Evanston's "Keg" on Thursday night (03/08/09) and future performances at Tommy Nevin's. I'm also writing some joints for Rotimi that will hopefully be recorded in the near future. As always, I'll post joints asap!
