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Blue Notes

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

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The Porch Light | Vol.02

Benny Sutton

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Sachal Studios Orchestra  Dave Brubeck's Take Five

10 cc - Dreadlock Holiday (Dj Corso Reballing Edit)

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This track is my version of the classic EWF track. Written by Allee Willis/Maurice White/McKay. This was #1 in the US in 1978

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September ---- Earth Wind And Fire

Recorded this one as a demo last year. Enjoy! :3 

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Get Lucky - Daft punk (Keiko Necesario COVER)

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Smooth Jazz guitar rework of the post disco track from the 'Raise' album. Written by Maurice White and Wayne Vaughn

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Let's Groove ---- Earth Wind And Fire

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This is a modern rework of that track. I've done my usual smooth jazz guitar thing on it but have rediscovered my dance roots. I think I've breathed new life into this beat - what do you think?

Don't Stop Till You Get Enough ---- Michael Jackson

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A new version of the greatest ever floor-filler - updated with loop mash beat. Woop woop! :-)

Boogie Wonderland ---- Earth Wind and Fire

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Written by Christopher Glover, Peter Wade, Amanda Warner & David Gross
Produced by Christopher Glover & Peter Wade
Mixed by Andrew Maury
Recorded at Penguin Prison Studios & Comet LA
Mastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound
Christopher Glover – vocals, guitars, bass, jupiter-6, percussion, ep-30, piano, 808
David Gross – cp-80, prophet 08
Amanda Warner – vocals

lyrics:

You could be my woman
And I’ll be your man
Just a little bit longer
‘Til the feeling ends
If something else is happening
And you need to go
You could run around this whole place
And you’d never know

Oh my can’t you let it be
Running round again
Round and round again
No I got somewhere to be
Running round again
Round and round again

Something better might be coming
Just a little more cuz it never gets old
Something that you thought was over
Just a little more cuz it never gets old

You could tell me something
You don’t need to shout
But I don’t need to know that
Don’t freak me out
Everything is ok
Everything is fine
For just a little bit longer
‘Til you’re out of time

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Never Gets Old

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Deacon Blues is another classic Steely Dan track off the Aja album.

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Steely Dan ---- Deacon Blues

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. 

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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)

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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)

These tracks were edited using the CVP705 and demonstrate the audio capability of the excellent keyboard. I am hoping that Yamaha will address the major weakness of having very limited free available memory after which I would give the keyboard 10/10. 

Dave Brubeck - Take Five

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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

Its Skeewifff VS Keith Mansfield again in this boom bap lounge adventure..

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Escort - Cocaine Blues

Take Five - Tribute to Dave Brubeck

12. Take Five (Dave Brubeck)

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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.