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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

Here's my second collaboration with Benny Sutton (guitar, rhythm guitar, bass and other parts) , me (Hammond B-3 organ) and drums. This time Benny has taken my original number and added all the extra parts, and put it all together. Here's the link to Benny's cloud ( https://soundcloud.com/bennysutton )

Benny's Cloud

Groovin' - feat. Benny Sutton

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There's a genuine Bernard Purdie shuffle on this one! Many thanks to MoodyMo (Michael Herndon) for an awesome drum track.

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Nearly Dan feat. MoodyMo

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The unmistakeable Mark Dorricott takes it to the next level with a superb piano solo (half way through).

Nite Cruiser Feat. Mark Dorricott (keys)

Benny and Tony team up for a 'down and dirty' live version of the Stevie Wonder classic 'Superstition'.
This is their high energy and rock steady take on an iconic track that they make their own with Ben's bluesy guitar and arrangement. 
Tony does what he does best, a vocal performance that takes no prisoners! His 
passion and conviction drives the band to a great interpretation that even Stevie would be proud of.

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Superstition LIVE Feat. Tonybluestone

Joni

Court & Spark Feat. Vocalatti

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This is a collaboration with two very talented, original, and distinctive artistes - Vocalatti on vocals and Mark Dorricott on keyboards.

Good Times feat. Vocalatti and Mark Dorricott

Together.    A remarkable gathering of more than twenty of my favorite SoundCloud musicians.  Guitars, keyboards, basses, tenor sax, clarinet and vocals. Together's musicians are serious creative instrumentalists and are inspirations to so many.  Many are recording artists.  The finest players I know here.   So many are simply remarkable.
   
Together represents what SoundCloud is about, and how effectively musicians can work across the world.   Musicians who have never ever even spoken with each other, but recognize each other by their sounds and the notes, rhythms and phrases they play.  Pretty damn cool.

12 countries are represented here  -- Canada, Dubai, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Sweden and the US.   

There are two sections to the piece - a blues piece and a modal fusion section, with soloists across each part, showcasing their distinctive voices.  Vocalatti's beautiful singing is woven throughout the piece - her words and voice really pull us together.  The wonderful keyboard head during the opening and closing was composed and performed by Calaminus, who also has added the great organ comping you hear throughout.   The first and last soloists are brilliant musicians and soloists, as are so many throughout.    

It's been such a pleasure to pull this together over the past 3 weeks.  So sit back and enjoy a true SoundCloud experience.    

We thank you so much for your time listening, your comments and your shares to followers and social media.  And thank you for your exploring and following these wonderful players and voices on their instruments.

Musicians (in order of appearance)

The Rhythm Group:
Vocalatti - vocals - Manchester, England @vocalatti
Calaminus - keyboards (horns, organ, add. drums & loops) - Stuttgart, Germany @calaminus 
Tunde Fernandez - bass - Barnstaple, England @tunde-fernandez
Jamie Rhind - keyboards (rhodes, drums, main backings) - New Canaan, Connecticut (US)
Daniele Petrocchi - bass - Lucca, Italy @daniele-petrocchi

Blues Section Soloists:
Ronny Heimdal - guitar Bergen, Norway @ronny-heimdal
Justin Valente - guitar Wayne, New Jersey (US) @justin-valente
Stephan "Pinner" Lipinski - guitar Mount Laurel, New Jersey (US) @pinner
Calaminus - organ Stuttgart, Germany @calaminus
Tom Adams - guitar San Antonio, Texas (US) @tytlblues
Ian Tait - guitar Edinburgh, Scotland @ian-tait
Marco Oversteegen - guitar Almere, Netherlands @marco-oversteegen
Michel Martineau - clarinet Gatineau, Canada @michel-martineau
Benny Sutton - guitar England @bennysutton
Giuliano Ghisi - guitar Dubai, UAE @gghisi
Rients Draaisma - guitar Oudeschoot, Netherlands @rients-draaisma
Johnny (Sax) Pugh - tenor saxaphone, Jumilla, Spain @johnny-pugh
Alan Schulman - guitar New York, New York (US) @digschulman
Dean Clark - guitar New York, New York (US) @aleckrand
Anders Moberg - guitar Norrköping, Sweden @anders-moberg-1
David Nederland - keyboards Barcelona, Spain @david-nl
Daniele Turani - guitar Italy, @danieleturani
Joe Bongiovanni - guitar Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (US) @joe-bongiovanni
Darren Chilton - guitar Tokyo, Japan @spectrum_one 
Jeff Fiorentino - guitar Hollywood, CA @jeff-fiorentino-jfrocks    Daniel van den Berg - guitar Rotterdam, Netherlands, @danarchx

Modal Section:
Daniele Petrocchi - bass - Lucca, Italy @daniele-petrocchi 
Jamie Rhind - keyboards New Canaan, Connecticut (US) @jamie-rhind
Daniel van den Berg - guitar Rotterdam, Netherlands, @danarchx
Jeff Fiorentino - guitar Hollywood, CA @jeff-fiorentino-jfrocks
Tunde Fernandez - bass Barnstaple, England @tunde-fernandez
Rients Draaisma - guitar Oudeschoot, Netherlands @rients-draaisma
Jorg Calaminus - keyboards Stuttgart, Germany @calaminus
Vocalatti - vocals - Manchester, England @vocalatti

BUY JAMIE'S MUSIC

Together  -  23 musicians.  12 countries.  1 stage

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Chaka Khan and Rufus originally played this song by Stevie Wonder. Here is a modern update performed by a major new vocal talent, Ty 
https://soundcloud.com/ty_m3

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Tell Me Something Good --- Chaka Khan ---- Feat. Ty (downloadable)

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A modern re-imagining of the classic Weather Report track by the cream of jazz players on Soundcloud

Guitars Benny Sutton @bennysutton	UK
Bass Barry Likumahuwa @barry-likumahuwa	Indonesia
Drums Alan "Quorn" Corne @quorns-drumming-world	Austrailia
Clarinets Michel Martineau @michel-martineau	Canada

Birdland was written by keyboardist Joe Zawinul of Weather Report. The piece made its debut on Weather Report’s 1977 studio album, Heavy Weather.

Benny Sutton says...
"You know the original was recorded in the studio in one take! Our version took a bit longer than that. The musicians come from all around the World and have never met! We swapped our parts and backing tracks over the Soundcloud platform taking six months in total to complete"

"Birdland" served as a tribute to the New York jazz club of that name on 52nd street NYC
Joe Zawinul once said "I met Miles there, and Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong; I met my wife Maxine there"

Benny says..
"Thank you all the musicians who created this track - and thanks to Joe, Wayne, and Jaco for giving us Birdland. Weather Report never had a guitarist. I hope that, if they had, it would sound like this!" 

Birdland feat. Benny Sutton, Barry Likumahuwa, Alan Corne, Michel Martineau  (downloadable)

Original R&B/jazz ballad duet. Check out two superb vocal performances by Vocalatti and Ty.

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Where Were You? ---- Duet feat. Vocalatti and Ty

An original composition and a collaboration with the talented Vocalatti on vocals 

Only You ---- Benny Sutton feat. Vocalatti

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Here's one of my Fave Weather Report tracks. I bought it on Vinyl, cassette tape, and CD so the next logical step was to record it!
I am most ably assisted by the very talented fretless bass player Steve Shone, who I first met when this album came out! Unlike me, he stuck with the music industry and carved a very successful career. He's played with Everyone who's Anyone. Check out his Soundcloud stream Palmgrease Productions
 https://soundcloud.com/palmgrease


Black Market ---- Weather Report feat. Steve Shone on fretless bass (downloadable)

This new version of the jazz standard by Herbie Hancock is a collaboration with the highly talented keyboard player Mark Dorricott on Hammond organ.
Herbie himself did many versions of this track; the first was in 1962. This incarnation more closely matches the one Herbie did with the Head Hunters, his jazz funk band in 1973.
It's a blast and we enjoyed doing it, we hope you do too!
Benny and Mark
:-)

Watermelon Man ---- Herbie Hancock ---- Feat. Mark Dorricott (downloadable)

Another superb vocal performance from Vocalatti of the Earth, Wind and Fire ballad.
https://soundcloud.com/vocalatti

After The Love Has Gone ---- Earth Wind and Fire ---- Feat. Vocalatti

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)

This one is a collab with Jamie Rhind from 2014. It didn't get many plays first time round so I took it down with a mind to streamlining it. I found it by accident yesterday and liked it so here it is again without any further mixing.
It's a weird one. Loads of genres weave in and out. It's complete with a psychedelic outro with a sitar and Jamie Rhind doing a brilliant Miles Davis impression on a virtual trumpet.

Jamie's Cloud

Who'da Thunk It! ----- Feat. Jamie Rhind

Here's a latin blues number written by Kenny Burrell - featuring Benny Sutton ( https://soundcloud.com/bennysutton ) on guitar. Hope you like - cheers Mark

Benny's cloud

Chitlins Con Carne - Kenny Burrell ( feat. Benny Sutton - gtr. )

Features Santi Caballero Méndez on sax https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero
Moody Mo on Drums https://soundcloud.com/moodymo/

EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE feat Santi Caballero Méndez (sax) and Moody Mo (drums)

I recently could not get this song out of my head and knowing that Benny had produced some amazing Steely Dan covers with his incredible guitar work I asked him if he would like to give it a go. Fortunately he said yes and Moody Mo has joined us with some amazing backing harmonies!! 
We really hope that you enjoy this one!!

Benny Sutton - All of the music and Mixing
Moody Mo- Backing Vocals

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@bennysutton
@moodymo

Don't Take Me Alive   (Steely Dan cover) Ft Benny Sutton and Moody Mo

Check out my Soundcloud channel for my latest music releases. 
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.
I'M ALSO HERE...
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https://soundcloud.com/bennysutton_covers


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.