Hi there, just a quick couple of updates, last Sunday, September 21, we got together and did a Photoshoot in St. Charles, IL. While we don’t have all the pictures yet, we do have some of them back. You can see them on our Sights and Sounds page. Take a look and tell us what you think. We’re going to be using some for our official ‘head shots’, but we’ll still show all of the finished products to you here on the site. We’ll just keep adding them as we get them. Also, if you have a Facebook account, we have a new 4-AM page there. Come become a fan there too!

Gary here. I am the Tenor of the group  I just thought I would post my first entry into the 4-AM site. As a group and with Jim’s help we are just starting to grasp the possibilities of sharing our work out in the cyber world. As we gain greater skills in our use of music production technology as an arranging tool I think you will begin to hear changes in the kind of sounds we create as a group. Traditionally, we have worked from written musical arrangements. We would then experiment using the written piece as our source. We are now experimenting with vocally improvised sketches and then developing the arrangements from these “vocal ideas”. It really is not much different than standing on a street corner and making up harmonies as was often the case with “Du-Wop” groups. Only now, we record the ideas and expand upon them. The more I learn the more I find out I need to learn. I really dig the creative possibilities.

Keep checking in for a listen and look at what we are doing and where we are going as artists.  I think you will find it an interesting journey.