Wow! How did I miss this one? What a fantastic collaboration Jamie! Both Michel and Ronny are absolutely stunning on this track... and you play beautifully as well, but also did a fine job with the background as the canvas for this amazing track!

you've come together in a magical moment, along life's journey, thanks guys.

I'm embarassed to approach with comments to musicians for whom i have such great respect, starting from Wayne, one of the greatest of all time, and then to you, brilliant performers and creators of unapproachable music. I can only bear witness to the love i have for what you do.

BUY JAMIE'S MUSIC

Burning it Up With SoundCloud Friends

We had a blast pulling this together.  Its a simple blues/gospel riff on organ in F, that sets up some wonderful opportunities for heavy jams over the top by Justin and Tom, two of the finest blues players I have ever recorded with.  Tom has the solos with a more treble sound, and Justin boosts his midrange and bass.  Check out their SoundCloud pages if you are not familiar.  They are bad ass, just like this tune.  Let us know what you think!

Bad Ass Blues - with Justin Valente and Tom Adams / guitars

What fun pulling this together with three serious musicians.  You probably know Joe Bongiovanni and Justin Valente's awesome blues oriented guitars, and they stretch out here on this funk / soul / fusion groove.  Burning it up they are.  And joining us on Alto Sax is recording artist Matt Criscuolo.  Look for him at mattcriscuolo.com.  These guys just play their ass off here.  Started with an internet fusion loop, I added many keyboard lines to funk it up to the max, and we added these pros.  Joe takes the opening solos for the first four minutes, Justin follows, and we finish with all the guys trading off.  So much energy.  Positive energy here.  Put this on and relax.  Hope you enjoy the entire tune - an extended play jam.  Damn this is burning.... Thanks for listening.  The guys would love your thoughts....

Funk And Burn - With Joe Bongiovanni and Justin Valente guitars and Matt Criscuolo alto sax

Dan van den Berg steals the show here on a Miles type modal groove, while breaking a high E string in the process.  See if you can find where:)  A special tune for us to toast Miles like this.  From the late 60s on Miles always had one or two super serious fusion guitar players on stage with him - John McLaughlin, Pete Cosey, Mike Stern, Barry Finnerty, John Scofield, Robin Ford and Foley.  He would have dug Dan's wonderful playing.  Thanks for you listens, likes, comments and shares.  The stunning photo was taken by our son Cameron at Machu Pichu, Peru

Check out Dan's extraordinary playing at https://soundcloud.com/danarchx

And here's a playlist of the 20+ tunes that Dan and I have recorded together.  Wonderful music:) https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/dazzling-em-dan-van-den-berg

Taking It Up - Dan van den Berg / Jamie Rhind

Footprints is one of the most famous jazz tunes of all time.  Written by the incomparable Wayne Shorter, perhaps the greatest jazz composer of the 20th Century, Footprints is simply a classic and right of passage for jazz players.  The tune was written in the mid-60s, when Wayne was huge part of Miles' seminal quintet, and already one of the top Tenor Sax players in the world, and before he left to help form the fusion band Weather Report with Zawinul and Jaco.

Footprints' form is a modal blues, and graciously joining me here are two of the very finest modal players and instrumentalists on SoundCloud - Canada's Michel Martineau on Clarinet https://soundcloud.com/michel-martineau  and Norway's Ronny Heimdal on guitar  https://soundcloud.com/ronny-heimdal  

Michel's most important musical mentor has been Wayne Shorter, so it was only fitting that he be an important part of this recording.  Michel has created a beautiful harmony line to complement the head, when doubled with clarinet and a synth trumpet patch, bringing a warm color and his elegant phrasing to the recording.  His soloing evokes Wayne's searching, and is simply marvelous.

Ronny's superb guitar playing and musicianship has stood out to me since I first found him here on SoundCloud and asked him to play on my fusion composition Busting Out, which he just tears up.  He has impeccable rhythm, an appetite for improvisation and musical excellence, and a complete understanding of jazz-fusion.  His music here on SoundCloud is quite electric:), so he toned it down a little here to mix in with the acoustic clarinet, trumpet and piano lines.

I've been looking forward to recording this classic, and we are so very pleased with the music we have here.  Please check out both Ronny and Michel's galleries, including Michel's gorgeous 13 compositions he wrote and collaborated with during his previous bout with Colon cancer, one for each of his chemo sessions.   They are very sensitive pieces given the difficult to impossible road ahead that Michel was facing at the time, and stand as perhaps the finest collection of pieces and collaboration I have found here.  

Michel just learned less than two weeks ago that this most serious Cancer is back, and will have to aggressively fight it again, but has recorded Footprints because of his love of jazz, of Wayne Shorter, and because of how much your positive comments and words of feedback mean to his healing process.   While not one of his original 13 compositions, I will always think of this collaboration in a similar fashion, where you hear the beautiful voice and spirit of Michel's clarinet and Ronny's guitar as they reflect on some of the music that has been his most important over time to us.  

A true honor for me to perform with these professionals.  Enjoy Footprints.

Thanks as always for your time listening, for your comments, for your shares, and now... for your prayers.

Michel Martineau - clarinet
Ronny Heimdal - guitar
Jamie Rhind - keyboards (piano, trumpet, bass and drums)

Footprints - with Michel Martineau (clarinet) and Ronny Heimdal (guitar)

Such a pleasure to have Norway's brilliant guitarist Ronny Heimdal  https://soundcloud.com/ronny-heimdal join me again, this time on Purple Mountain.  Ronny's playing and creativity is world class, and he makes this heavy modal fusion original come to life with his listening, note selection and phrasing, interaction with my synth lines, and finally his engineering abilities.  My deepest appreciation goes out to him for jumping in to help us climb the Purple Mountain together.   

This photo is of the stunning Norwegian fjords, a magical place that I am looking forward to exploring someday.

Thanks as always for your listening, for your comments and for your sharing among your friends.  Please go to Ronny's gallery to check out more of the superb music he has created and recorded.  A very fine keyboard player as well as guitarist, Ronny should be followed by any musician interested in fusion, jazz rock and progressive rock.

https://soundcloud.com/ronny-heimdal

Purple Mountain - with Ronny Heimdal / Electric Guitar

Gotta love the open invitation from Scotland's finest SC guitarist, fuzzmaster and executive chef Ian Tait https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait to join him on this heavy funk rocker.  Ian's signature funky sound and outstanding Wah playing were just what the doctor ordered for me, so I jumped in with some heavy synth guitar patch to try and match Ian's electricity on my keyboard.  On this track I take the first and third solos.  Damn this was fun Ian!!!  You are back with a vengeance.

Thanks as always for your time listening, to your welcome comments and for your shares.

Funky Strat Strut - with Ian Tait / guitar

Piano Improvisations #24.8

U-Dyslexia

When Im With You

You don't need a map to find paradise
I invite you to listen to my piano improvisation "Amusing Dates".

The sheet music of my compositions can be downloaded from here:
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/victor-birkan-sheet-music/3028943?isPLP=1


Amusing Dates - Improvised Piano Piece

L-Yellow House

Smooth Sailing

Fallin in Love

Esta canción está basada en un riff de bajo que hizo mi hijo Adrián. En principio su destino era la banda que teníamos "Eléctrica Azul" y se ensayó pero no llego a generarse completamente. La retomé y compuse toda la instrumental. En cuanto a las voces, éstas son samples de uso gratuito que he generado para que se acoplaran bien al tempo y melodía de la canción. 
Para las guitarras he usado mi Duesenberg Palomo Red Sparkle.
Resto de instumentos con plugins. 
Daw: Cubase 14 Pro.
Masterizado con Izotope Ozone 11 Standard.
Gracias por escuchar.

In English:
This song is based on a bass riff my son Adrián wrote. It was originally intended for our band, "Eléctrica Azul," and it was rehearsed but never fully produced. I reworked it and composed the entire instrumental. As for the vocals, these are free samples I generated to fit the song's tempo and melody.
For the guitars, I used my Duesenberg Paloma Red Sparkle.
The rest of the instruments are plugins.
Daw: Cubase 14 Pro.
Mastered with Izotope Ozone 11 Standard.
Thanks for listening.

Canción de Adrián

Sainsonic feat. Synthesizer V Eri - Your Dream あなたの夢

Lyrics & vocal : UK Man
Music, instruments & mix : PJ Project

Oh Kim

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.

Footprints - with Michel Martineau (clarinet) and Ronny Heimdal (guitar)

Jamie Rhind

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