READY FOR TAKEOFF

When Bryce Avary wanted horns on Do You Feel, his new Rocket Summer album, co-producer Jim Wirt knew who to call -- the horn section that played on Stevie Wonder's classic "Sir Duke."

"It was such a no-brainer," recalls the Texas-based singer and multi-instrumentalist. "I sang them the parts and they played them."

Do You Feel (due in July via Island Records) is the first Rocket Summer album for the Island Def Jam Music Group. Making the move to a major record company, says Avary, "feels different, in a good way. It's been a nice experience to make a record comfortably where I didn't have to sleep on the floor in the studio isolation booth."

The Rocket Summer is among the scheduled acts for this weekend's Bamboozle festival at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford. Avary will be backed by his usual four-piece band, and just like he does in the studio, he'll hop around from instrument to instrument during the show.

The set will include one of the new horn-enhanced songs -- but sans the Wonder horn section. Avary already knows how he'll fill the instrumental gap in the tune.

"It has a sax solo," he says. "I play piano on that song, and then at [the sax part], I throw my guitar around and do a guitar solo."

Check out The Rocket Summer's MySpace page at www.myspace.com/therocketsummer.