Part of an interview with John Alagia, producer, musician, in the paper ´MIX´ August 1th 2005:
How did you get to work with Herbie Hancock and Paul Simon last week?
´I worked with Art Garfunkel on a Paul Simon track about a year-and-a-half ago. It was going to be on Simon`s ´Hearts and Bones´, but Paul didn`t feel like it quite made it. Paul thought I did a good job on it and invited me up to his house to listen to his new material he was working on with Brian Eno. I really don`t know how I ended up on the Herbie session, but was secretly hoping that Paul had something to do with it. Ends up that I`ve worked with a few other artists who share Herbie`s manager, so I went over to meet him at his house and ended up spending hours and hours with him, just listening to music and talking. We talked about technology and music, and he is such a fine man.
The track we did is for Herbie`s record, and because he`s touring and such a busy man, he asked me if I would produce it. We had a concept, and we were working on the charts in the hotel the night before we went into the studio. Paul came in a day early and he had some ideas. I could hardly believe it: here I was playing Paul`s guitar part with him singing, and Herbie on piano, Pino Palladino on bass, Steve Jordan on a champagne kit, and Jamey Haddad and Cyro Battista on percussion. It was a great little group of folks to have in the studio at the same time. Paul was talking about how a musician making music is similar to a preacher who is giving a sermon. Those few days in the studio were a remarkable time for me.´-
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