Fine Dining Restaurant Background Music

I've made about 250 numbers, plus collaborations this last year, so it's impossible to go through them to find what you might like, so I'm doing the searching for you.

I'm making some short sets up in various styles, with music I think you might like. This is a late night jazz and soul lounge set. Hope you like:)

Late Night Jazz and Soul Lounge

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inquietmode

shmmooooove

Slow

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Steely Dan

Another late night number - a bit bodged together , but I guess it gives a more live feel.

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438 - Midnight Mood

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Jazz@Funk

Reposting my groove to Miles Davis 'So What' I did last year, if you've heard before apologies :) If not hope you like :)

Late Night Groove to 'So What' - Miles Davis

Soft Jazz Saxophone at Lifetime Lounge

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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

Fiddling around again, hope you like. Cheers Mark :)

504 - Night Vision

505 - Dreamsville

506 - Desert Time

Stl smooth jazz 3

My smooth jazz guitar version of the Steely Dan classic. I play all instruments except drums.

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I've got a page devoted to Steely Dan where I talk about how to play their great guitar solos 
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Steely Dan ---- Peg (free download by clicking the 'buy' button)

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I've got a page devoted to Steely Dan where I talk about how to play their great guitar solos 
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'Josie' is another Steely Dan classic off the 1977 album 'Aja'. 

Steely Dan ---- Josie

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

Guitarists love Steely Dan because they integrated the instrument into their studio productions so beautifully. In the process they gave the world at least 10 of the top 50 guitar solos of all time!

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Steely Dan ---- Deacon Blues

Not strictly a Steely Dan Track this is from Donald Fagen's Nightfly album. However it's as close as he gets to classic Steely tracks. I always thought Fagen wrote it but it is actually a cover they did of a Leiber Stoller song. They know a good song when they see one.
My approach is to jump genres with the beats; there's Dubstep and Disco there! Some horns and a clavinet bassline later and - Voila! The Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. version was originally recorded by The Drifters and was released on a single by Atlantic Records in 1956


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Steely Dan ---- Ruby Baby (downloadable)

This track, when the Steelies first released it, was marked by its distinctive 'voicebox' guitar, quite an innovation at the time when it was initially released Technology has moved on so much since the original track was recorded. 
The original voice box was a tube attached to your amp the sound from which went up a plastic tube and you mouthed vowels etc with your mouth close to a microphone. I have a pedal with a superb setting that does in digitally! I don't use it often but when I do I love it. So you get a clean guitar solo and a voice box one too for the same money! 
I always wondered why the almost reggae beat - that would mean it was called Jamaican Divorce! Slick move Donald to not do the obvious).
source http://www.songfacts.com
The lyrical meaning of the original refers to the odd practice of going to Haiti for a quickie divorce. You could go to Vegas for a quickie marriage, but what if you want a quickie divorce? In the early '70s, Haiti made it easy, allowing foreigners to divorce with hardly any restriction; the big sell was that only one member of the married party had to be present and request it.
For Haiti, this was a tourism ploy, as travel agents would send Americans looking for a quick and easy divorce to the island, where they would often spend some time on a resort. In many cases, these divorces were requested so that the person could immediately get remarried - a service Haiti also provided. So it was not uncommon for a married man to show up in Haiti with his mistress, get a divorce, and marry the new girl all in the course of a weekend. .Donald Fagan talked about the Haitian divorce in a 1976 interview with Sounds. Said Fagen: "It's a fierce and terrible ritual. I'll tell you that. You wouldn't want your sister to have a Haitian divorce, believe me. It was the quick 'divorce, without too much red tape. If you can say 'incompatibility of character' in French you're as good as gold. But we added a few elements to the ceremony itself."
In this song, it's the woman who goes to Haiti for her divorce. She has some fun while she is there, and presumably hooks up with a local - their sex scene is implied in cinematic terms in the lines:

    Now we dolly back
    Now we fade to black

    When she returns to America, she is pregnant, as Fagen sings, "Some babies grow in a peculiar way."
    The girl in this song drinks a zombie from a coconut shell, which at the time was a very typical island experience. A zombie is a rum-based cocktail that was popular at the time - an alternative to the Pina Colada.


Steely Dan ---- Haitian Divorce

I've done a remix on this one as the trumpet sounds better than the flute imho and cut the organ solo earlier when it starts playing too far out. Also added an intro groove to the main theme. Hope you like:) 

189 - Afterhours Soul - Remix - 320kbps

Investigative Mechanics (Preview Version)

This is the part 2 of the Smooth Jazz mix again I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did making it.....



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Vyzion Jazz Mix 2 w DJ-ZX

207 - Time Out Of Mind (extended remix) - 320kbps

Atlantic Five Jazz Band - Blue Bossa - JazzAndBluesExperience

Hope you like this late night jazz number:)

253 - As Late As It Gets - 320kbps

A contemporary smooth jazz track that opens with ambient stream/forest sounds, a rolling groove, with jazz piano and slap-bass elements.

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Atlantic Five Jazz Band - Take Five

These examples are some of the finished projects we've done with artists.  We're proud of the diversity of styles and genres we do here...plus it always keeps us on our toes!  For as much as the music production itself is important, the vocals always add a whole other level to the song, so it's nice to hear what the original artist does after they've been given their music.  Enjoy!

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Jazz Pop

Hangin on the down low (SoundCloud version)

FUNK LEVEL 9000

He Had Potential

Hangin on the Down Low Final Mix 122312 01

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The Wind Cries Mary

Heres something different from me, a little selection of some quality modern & acid jazz. with artist such as Incognito, Count Basic, Mondo Grosso and more! 

I hope u enjoy it as i did. Please leave a comment or add to your favs if ur feeling it :)



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Speedy's Presents : Jazzy Vybez Vol 1 @Acid Jazz & Smooth Grooves@

Welcome to my second mix which starts smooth and ends with Santana - a 1977 track that I heard a couple of weeks ago. Santana is a genius! Enjoy

To my UK followers, I now DJ at Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach, Tottenham from 6pm till 11pm every Wednesday from October 2015! Come and listen to my smooth jazz favourites in a great bar, relaxed, perfect ambience,  great food and clientele!! 

The picture is of me (in the centre) and the management of RRR when I did my first gig on 30th May 2013! 

Second smooth jazz mix by Sapphire

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...
http://www.bennysutton.com
MY VIDEOS http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5TJp0GyhYOnusiCGB8z4fG0T8G35gTTi
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.

Nearly Dan feat. MoodyMo

Benny Sutton