"THEY'RE LOOKING FOR A FEEL"
Latterday Dan trumpeter/MD Michael Leonhart on the Tao of Walt and Don.
“In 1996, Walter and Donald hired me as a trumpet player for their touring band. Two years in, I began helping with the arrangements. We explored songs from
Aja
and
Gaucho.
But it wasn’t like this anal thing of making sure they were exactly like the record. It was, ‘Let’s go for the
spirit
of the record.’