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Blue Notes

Miles Davis

This is a collection of all the jazz standards that I have reworked. https://www.bennysutton.com/music/Blue-Notes.aspx 
Wherever I could I have sought to update these tracks for the 21 st century. I've got resources available to me that the original artists couldn't even imagine. I've escaped the acoustic tyranny of the jazz purists and added House, Elektro, Dubstep, Drum & Bass beats to many. Jazz must move on - or die!

Jazz Standards

Bill C's Friends

jazz

Cowboy Bebop

Skandiamo

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Miles is my main man. Always has been, always will be!
I truly believe that it should be compulsory for all musicians to listen to Miles every day. So this is my contribution to that!

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Hank Jones Because I Love You

Based in the Mushin path.
From the album: Biologic, by The Pilots Experience (2013)
Voice samples taken from "Ghost Dog" movie, voice by Forest Whitaker.
Music by Yorko.

TPE - Hagakure

Gil Evans (arr: J.D. Vázquez Salvagno)Concierto 13-12-2013

Las Vegas Tango - Gil Evans (arr: J.D. Vázquez Salvagno)

Bob James Quartet -Feel like making Love  at Live at Java Jazz Festival

Here's a nice Chicago blues style jam , featuring Benny Sutton (guitar) , me (Hammond B-3 organ) and drums. Sorry it's a bit short, anyway hope you like - cheers Mark :)

Bennie's Cloud

486 - Bennie's Blues jam feat.  Benny Sutton

Duke Ellington: In A Sentimental Mood

COMPOSED & ARRG.- MELVIN N SPARKS Sr. synths,keys,percussions & all basses - MELVIN N SPARKS Sr. MISTER SPARKS plays Ibanaz basses.

FUNK IN MY GOODIE BAG /added more spice, almost done

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My version of the the iconic Miles track. I think it has most beautiful melody line ever, written by Joe Zawinul. Complete with Mile's actual horn on the coda!

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In a Silent Way ---- Miles Davis (downloadable)

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Miles could play over any type of music from any era and make it sound great. Every decade brought a new sound. This was Miles' post 70's fusion style. Much slicker. Technology had moved on in the 80's and he could now exploit synths, sequencers and drum machines.
Tutu was mostly a bunch of completed but unreleased tracks written by Marcus Miller. Wisely Marcus asked Miles to play on it and took it to the next level!
This track is named in tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the first black Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South 
Miles received the 1987 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist Grammy Award for his performance on Tutu. Initially Tutu was panned by the critics but, you know what Miles would say to them? "So What!"
Benny Sutton :-)

drums: Michael Hearndon https://soundcloud.com/moodymo
bass:    https://soundcloud.com/thespacebass 

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Tutu ---- Miles Davis feat. MoodyMo

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Here's my respectful re-imagining of the Jazz standard "So What" by Miles Davis. To say it is not like the original is an understatement. It's funky. 
I did release a version with no horns on it. I did ask some Soundcloud trumpeters for a collaboration but they shied away! Can't blame them, these are big boots to fill. 
The trumpeter who not only has the hutzpah but also the talent to play Miles is Jordy Waelauruw from Jakarta / Indonesia.  You can find him at https://soundcloud.com/jordy-trumpet
So my version has two Steely Dan type guitar solos and breaks into a swing jazz section in between. See if you can spot my vocal debut!
What I like about Miles is that he reinvented himself every decade he was playing. He also reinvented jazz with the album 'Kind of Blue' from which 'So What' was the opening track.
The actor Dennis Hopper, in an interview in 2008 with Men's Journal, claims that Davis named the song after intellectual conversations with Hopper, in which Hopper would reply, "So what?"
According to Wikipedia...
"So What" is one of the best known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D Dorian, followed by eight bars of E♭ Dorian and another eight of D Dorian. This AABA structure puts it in the thirty-two-bar format of American popular song.
I didn't know that.... I just played it... but then I say the same as Miles...SO WHAT!
Benny Sutton
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So What ---- Miles Davis featuring Jordy Waelauruw (trumpet) (downloadable)

SOUNDCLOUD EXCLUSIVE: the only version online with Mile's original horn on. It was taken down from Youtube with a lovely copyright strike! So fill yer boots now guys!

This is the greatest collaboration that never happened.
get the full back story behind this track on my website at...
http://www.bennysutton.com/Music/Jimi-Hendrix-and-Miles-Davis.aspx

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Jimi meets Miles ---- Right Off (downloadable)

Our selection of Jazz music from Metropole Jazz Night

Brother Hubbard (Kenny Garret

This is my first ever guitar duet collaboration so who better to do it with than the immensely talented Dan Van Den Berg @danarchx
I know, I was a bit skeptical of multiple guitarists too. It probably doesn't occur to guitarists to collab with other guitarists and when we do we stick into comfort zones e.g. Larry Carlton teams up with Robben Ford.
So I wanted to do something with a player who is so different it is obvious which of us is playing at any time. I'm pleased to say that I think the contrast of our styles really works. To avoid confusion, I'm the slow/blusey one playing an Ovation electric and Dan is the fast/fusion technical one playing the Ibanez.
Dan really thought about this one. He went for a rounded tone and used a setting kind of similar to that of Al Di Meola in his early solo work, where he uses a Phaser with light gain and fast muted lines causing the typical tic toc sound of the guitar.
Man I love it, hope you do too!

other credits
Written by Freddie Hubbard
arranged by Devian
Vibraphone by Iman Tjahjono

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Little Sunflower GUITAR DUET with Dan van den Berg (downloadable)

Herbie Hancock - Chameleon

The classic Herbie Hancock jazz standard from 1964 as you've never heard it before. My version features a House beat to drive it along and some mix and mash Hip Hop style!

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Cantaloupe Island ---- Herbie Hancock (downloadable)

FROM THE 'BLUE NOTES' ALBUM. Download the album now! 
For this track I've gone back to my blues roots. The solo starts off very clean but soon descends into anarchy. The name of the preset I used on my guitar pedal is 'Bonamassa' that should tell you all you need to know! Seriously, the wah wah Rock Blues thing is how I used to do it. So now I have proven I still can get down mean and dirtay. All Blues is classic Miles Davis first appearing on the influential 1959 Columbia album Kind of Blue.

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Miles Davis ---- All Blues

Another track from my Blue Notes album. You can download it free by clicking the [album] link.
This track is composed by Charles Mingus originally recorded by his sextet in 1959 as listed below, and released on his album Mingus Ah Um. Mingus wrote it as an elegy for saxophonist Lester Young, who had died two months prior to the recording session, and was known to wear a broad-rimmed pork pie hat.
It's been covered by many including Miles (hence the link to blue note), Joni Mitchell, Jeff Beck and other notables. I follow the Marcus Miller arrangement so I'm playing High Bass again.

Goodbye Porkpie Hat ---- Charles Mingus (downloadable)

This is Autumn leaves as you've never heard it before. It's Autumn leaves on acid! There's a loop mash beat, some crazy Techno stutters, and inappropriate instrumentation. 

FROM THE 'BLUE NOTES' ALBUM. Download the album now!
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Originally it was a 1945 French song "Les feuilles mortes" (literally "The Dead Leaves") with music by Hungarian-French composer Joseph Kosma. 


Autumn Leaves ---- Joseph Kosma (downloadable)

FROM THE 'BLUE NOTES' ALBUM. Download the album now!
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Devian Zikri's arrangement updates the bossa nova beat of this Latin Jazz standard. Don't miss the drum solo at 3 minutes 10 seconds. Blue Bossa is a composition by Kenny Dorham. It was introduced on Joe Henderson's 1963 album Page One on, yes you've guessed it, Blue Note records.

Blue Bossa ---- Kenny Dorham (downloadable)

Another track from my Blue Notes album. You can download it free by clicking the [album] link.
John Coltrane, the saxophonist, is another influential Blue Note Artiste. He was certainly a virtuoso player. This track is notoriously difficult to solo over due to having three tonal centres that change almost every bar! I got around this by slowing it down and playing in Pentatonic scales sparingly. It's a great track and I found that doing it in the style of Weather Report worked best. The faux lead bass line is me playing the lower registers of my Nylon stringed electro acoustic again. How do you like the trumpet solo, not a real one, the melody was written into MIDI and I used a VSTi enhanced by a breath controller to make it more realistic. It's not 100% but almost indistinguishable from a real horn.

Giant Steps ---- John Coltrane

Take Five is a jazz classic composed by Paul Desmond and performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet on their 1959 album Time Out. Sadly Dave was on Columbia but undoubtedly influenced by Blue Note. It's another great arrangement from Devian, this time with a samba beat. The melody line doesn't lend itself to the guitar so I have restricted myself to a solo only. See if you can spot a cheeky 4 bars of Techno!

Take Five ---- Dave Brubeck (downloadable)

This track absorbs House and Elektro beats and doesn't blink! Blue Train was the second studio album by John Coltrane, released in 1958 on Blue Note Records. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, it is Coltrane's second solo album, the only one he recorded for Blue Note as a leader, and the only one he conceived personally for the label.
John Coltrane's next major album, 1960's Giant Steps, would break new melodic and harmonic ground in jazz, whereas Blue Train adheres to the hard bop style of the era.
I've also covered Giant Steps https://soundcloud.com/bennysutton/giant-steps-by-john-coltrane

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Blue Train ---- John Coltrane

I do not own the rights to the backtrack.
Peace, Love & Music :)

''Sea Angel''

Lonesome Road
Jim Arthur: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Samuel Isoard: Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals
Samuel Jouve: Bass
Antoine Soret: Drums, Percussions
EP 2015 enregistré dans les Studios de L'Hacienda à Tarare par Jo Verne.
Recording and Mixing : Benjamin Tessier
Mastering : Simon Basalte-studio
Photo : Romain Baueur

Lyrics:

You looked like a stranger that night 
And so cold
I'd put my all life on the line
And you broke my soul
Ain't nobody cares about me now
See how many tears lying there on the ground

It could fill my cup

(refrain) :
I'm driving down to the auction 
With something to sell
I pawn my heart for deception 
There's nothing left anyway Yeah

They say I'd have seen all the signs 
But they don't know
How hard it's to stare at a light
For a broken heart
We curse and we blame all along 
While there is a way to get out of the storm

On that Lonesome Road

(refrain) :
I'm driving down to the auction 
With something to sell
I pawn my heart for deception 
There's nothing left anyway Yeah

For using love as a passion
We've all gone insane , On that Lonesome Road 
When you drive down to this auction
It's just a one way , Oh no don't leave me

It could fill my cup

Lonesome Road

Daptone 7 Inch Singles Collection Vol. 2

The Mighty Imperials - The Matador

Out On the Faultline

Redwood Jungle (feat. Jazz Mafia Horns)

Eastern Sounds (Remastered)

The Plum Blossom

Check out my Soundcloud channel for my latest music releases. 
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I'm different! I play melodies - even when improvising!  
I'm really not interested in impressing other musicians. I'm creating music for everyone.
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ABOUT ME
I play the music I like to listen to. 
As a guitarist I like to think I have my own style.
Harmony, and the groove is what I'm chasing, hopefully with a tasteful, nuanced, and distinctive presentation. 
I don't have a genre as such. I could sort of call myself a smooth Jazz 'n' Blues guitar 'thang' but in reality every track crosses over multiple strands of R&B/Jazz/Funk/Pop. Don't be put off by my use of the "J" word. Jazz to me is anything unpredictable and I'm nothing if not contemporary. 
Rhythm playing is as much a part of my "game" as lead soloing. I love the Funk!
My main instrument is guitar. I play a 1973 Ovation Breadwinner, an Ibanez nylon stringed and a Yamaha keyboard loaded with Keyscape. Unless stated I play all the other instruments too (mostly Bass), and sequence MIDI and arrange/produce. 

MY JOURNEY
I was signed with Fresh Air records and EMI in the 1980's creating Jazz/funk dance tracks but things were just as challenging then as they are now for musicians so I got a 'proper job' for 20 years! During all that time my guitar was in the loft! I rediscovered music in 2010 and Soundcloud in 2014.


MY SOUNDCLOUD
I am grateful to Soundcloud listeners who take the time to press |>Play - and especially if you give me some feedback :-)
I hope what you hear will draw you in sufficiently to explore on my own website. Nearly all my original stuff (6 albums worth) are on www.BennySutton.com and all are downloadable.
Please don't follow me in hope of getting to get an automatic follow back. I don't do that because I only follow the smallest number of people I can keep track of. I'll have a look at your page but will only follow back if you are really of interest to me. See my follow list, you'll discover some very talented artistes, many of whom I have been lucky to Collab. Soundcloud really is the place to find the real innovators these days - not the music industry approved channels, especially MTV!
If you want to get my attention, send me a PM.