Hot talkbox fx & performance! Wild at times as Jimi might have played...super!

Benny - wonderful tribute and in exactly the right spirit.  Love your page discussion on your website and what you've done here weaves the two beautifully.  Hadn't heard the story of Tony before:)  Tony's work with Lifetime as you know is along these lines too.  Great stuff.  Great

hats off guys. great tribute to mr jack johnson

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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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Miles Davis

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Continuum - Jaco Pastorius cover - Ft. Reinhard Bock

Rikki Don't Lose That Number

An original song written, produced and arranged by Benny Sutton
I kissed a girl is about a guy who, after being dumped, gets an ai robot replacement - in the same image as his Ex!

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I Kissed A Girl Just Like You

I wrote a Christmas Song!

A Case of You is arguably one of the greatest breakup songs ever
Joni is eloquent and poetic ode to long-time lover Graham Nash
It is a tale of star-crossed lovers, great Love, found and lost
Originally on the Blue album
There are over 300 known cover versions of it, by 300 artists (now 301) including Prince
All found something they could make their own

A Case Of You by Joni Mitchell Ft. Sam B.

Have a John Lennon Christmas!

Is River by Joni Mitchell the best Christmas song ever?
It was off the 1973 'Blue' Album and amazingly was never released as a single.
Nor was it a Christmas song, it was a sad love song about her breakup with Graham Nash.
It just got so much airplay it grew into a classic that gets played very holiday season.

River by Joni Mitchell Ft. Anita O.

The Joni Project

Blue by Joni Mitchell

Skinny White Rock Chicks sing Good Old Fashioned Rock 'n' Roll

Carey by Joni Mitchell - soft rock cover

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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 

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
http://www.BennySutton.com

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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.
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Jimi meets Miles ---- Right Off (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

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Love Guitar? You're in the right place!
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.

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

Benny Sutton

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