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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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Jazz

If you gotta ask you’ll never know.

Late Night Jazz

Bahamas Mellow 242

Produce by DJ Mike LaBirt from New Generation Records Vocal Kimara Lovelace Remix ed By John Crockett

Time After Time (John Crockett Vocal Mix)  snip320K - Kimara Lovelace2

Magic

Recorded on December 5th 2013 as a tribute to Nelson Mandela. With John Ellis (piano) Neil Yates (flugelhorn) Gavin Barras (bass) Luke Flowers (drums)

Water From An Ancient Well - Abdullah Ibrahim

I am truly honored and humbled to announce that my remix of Bill Withers​' Ain't No Sunshine has been granted an official release. This means that you can now find it on iTunes, Spotify and everywhere else you listen to music. Thank you so much to Ultra Music​ and Sony Music Entertainment​ for being open minded, reaching out and making this happen. An unbelievable honor.

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/AintNoSunshineLido
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/46a59ZT7JG0i3tJNaQmPom

Twitter: @Lidogotsongs
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lidogotsongs

Premiered on @runthetrap: http://runthetrap.com/2014/04/28/premiere-bill-withers-aint-sunshine-lido-remix/

Ain't No Sunshine (Lido Remix)

"Django" forma parte del nuevo álbum de Chano Domínguez & Nino Josele, a la venta el próximo 17 de Junio. 

Más info: http://www.sonymusic.es

Django

Chano Dominguez & Nino Josele - "Django"

Chet Baker & Ruth Young - Autumn Leaves

Guitar: Edward James Tahalea 
For more romantic tunes: https://soundcloud.com/edwardjt

I'm In The Mood For Love

Check this link to enjoy old school jazz: http://www.jazzonthetube.com

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'

Demos written with and featuring PEARL Concert Grand, a Kontakt Player piano instrument produced by Impact Soundworks!

http://impactsoundworks.com/pearl-concert-grand/


"Strange Meadow Lark" by Dave Brubeck - Jazz Solo (perf. Doug McKenzie)

Brilliant number by Coltrane. Real late night jazz number.

Hope you like what I've done with it.

065 - Naima - John Coltrane - 320kbps

Inspired by the big man that is @Sangobeats 


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Pineapple Pool Party (Sango taught me)

This is the title track from the Spike Lee movie of the same name starring Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes

Mo' Better Blues ---- Branford Marsalis (downloadable)

idk i love this so much i still can't believe it was live.... might as well share!!

(ps he gave permission at the concert for people to take videos and upload them as they pleased!! so its ok to post)

this is from Chris Botti's concert at the Mission Hill Winery in Kelowna on July 24, 2015

The Very Thought Of You - Chris Botti And Sy Smith

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)

Beutiful ballad, made famous by the one and only Louis Armstrong.

When It's Sleepytime Down South

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)

FROM THE 'BLUE NOTES' ALBUM. Download the album now!
http://www.bennysutton.com/download/mp3download.aspx?id=178
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

this is an audio recording of one of the Léman Quartets rehearsals. 

Theme From Black Orpheus

Charles Mingus- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Live At Montreux (1975).wav

Coverlåtar inspelade under 2009 och 2010.

Aretha Franklin - Think

Black Orpheus

Abdullah Ibrahim - Blue Bolero

All tracks aranged and performed by Tom Woodruff '08


BLACK ORPHEUS (Luis Bonfa)

John Coltrane and Miles Davis - On Green Dolphin Street

Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald - Love Is Here To Stay

The '60s Music for Sync Licensing (Film & TV)
www.cleopatrafilmtv.com 
For Inquires please contact: 
Benny Cardenas 
tel: (310) 477-4000 
email: benny@cleorecs.com 
(P) (C) 2012 Cleopatra Records, Inc.. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws

Sam & Dave - Soul man

I do not own the rights to Unforgettable.
I did not create the original.

Unforgettable (Nat King Cole)

Greg Lloyd playing some live improvisations on the tune 'Flamenco Sketches' by Evans/Davis from the album 'A Kind of Blue' Please visit : www.greglloydmusic.com to hear and see more on Greg and his Group called the Greg Lloyd Group (GLG) ©Lloyd 2013.

Flamenco Sketches - Evans/Davis - Solo piano Greg Lloyd 2013 - www.greglloydmusic.com

7 The Mountain (Abdullah Ibrahim)

L.O.V.E - Nat King Cole

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Love For Sale-Cannonball Adderley
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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.

Mo' Better Blues ---- Branford Marsalis (downloadable)

Benny Sutton