Here's a little bluesy number dedicated to Alpha Roots - I'm feeling blue today thinking of our great friend Alphio https://soundcloud.com/alpha-roots.  Alphio has gone through such a challenging year and more with his head high, creating warm music with so much rhythm, creativity, spirit and love.  Always leaving positive notes on his music descriptions, despite his many setbacks, Alphio needs our love and thoughts now even more than ever before.  Life can be wonderful, yet for so many it is fleeting and the challenges sometimes can sometimes be more than anyone has an answer for.  This one is to my great friend Alphio - our great friend Alphio - who has shown us all that spirit rises above all, and that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.  Please stop by Alphio's SoundCloud gallery to listen to his uplifting music, to follow him, to take in that spirit, and to leave him some notes and love, which will mean so much to him.  And for a collection of the music we have recorded together here on SoundCloud,  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/alphio

Courage Is Not The Absence of Fear But The Triumph Over It - dedicated to Alpha Roots

Jazz/Fusion keyboard player, composer and producer.  Marketing, advertising, publishing and sales career.  Originally from Chicago, where I developed a strong appreciation for the blues and classical, and moved to New York, where jazz and the fine arts are so deep.  Key musical influences include Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Zawinul and Weather Report, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, John McLaughlin and the Mahivishnu Orchestra, Stanley Clarke, Scott Henderson and Tribal Tech, Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer, Mike Stern, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Emily Remler, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Jimmy Smith, Joey DeFrancesco, Larry Young, Buddy Guy, Santana and Earth Wind & Fire.   Former classical clarinet and piano player.  Unless noted, my music on SoundCloud was composed, recorded and performed using only keyboards.  An avid photographer.  Many covers here are my shots.  To see my photography look for Herbiejazz on Instagram or search for Herbiejazz on Google.  And a big thumbs up to SoundCloud and the SoundCloud community, and so many friends who have joined me to create.  Thank you all.

Courage Is Not The Absence of Fear But The Triumph Over It - dedicated to Alpha Roots

Jamie Rhind