RIght up there with the best of 'em! Lyrical & refined. Guitar is dangerously lovely as well!

Great versioon  off a classic. Excellent clarinet solo.

Had my eyes closed for the entire cut! Bravo gents!!

https://soundcloud.com/fr-d-ric-schneider-1

Márcio Faraco - Madrugada

Joy Spring by Clifford Brown has long been a favourite jazz standard of mine, one of those tunes that uplifts, a perfect reflection of its wonderful title.

I suggested making a version to Derek and he came back with this wonderful arrangement; his feather light acoustic guitar and easy swing tempo are a perfect counterpoint to my clarinet. It's a lovely combination and one that comes as close as I've come to capturing the elusive spirit of this sweetest of jazz tunes. 

Clifford Brown died at the age of 25, pretty typical for a jazz musician in the '50s you might say. The tragic irony is he bucked the trend, was famously clean-living but died in a car accident travelling between gigs.

Please listen to more of Derek's brilliant music at https://soundcloud.com/derek-cornett



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Joy Spring, Dave McKeown with Derek Cornett

A breakthrough song for Nat King Cole, "Nature Boy" [1947] by Eden Ahbez tells the story of a "strange enchanted boy", who is said to have "wandered very far...over land and sea".
This version by Kitty LaRoar & Nick Shankland - Summer of 2014.
Recorded all analogue on 2" tape at Cowshed Studio London.

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I really love the music of Django Reinhardt. Enjoy his wonderful Nuages. 
I play an arrangement of the great french guitarist and composer Roland Dyens.

nuages  -  django reinhardt

John Hicks - Rosetta

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I am a working full-time musician, teaching, performing, composing, recording and arranging, and my gigs in the last few years have included jazz combo, big band jazz, folk, Irish traditional, rock, soul, latin, klezmer, funk, orchestral, chamber, minimal techno, musical theatre and more, so, safe to say, I’ll have a go at anything. 

I'm a firm believer in demolishing boundaries between genres, cultures, languages and ultimately people, and Soundcloud is a terrific place where all this can happen.

Joy Spring, Dave McKeown with Derek Cornett

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