Lovely swing to this Jamie,,,one of my mothers fabvourite songs!!

Delightful piece.... really enchanting melody...

This is so smooth Jamie, superb production!!

Famous melody played with so much feeling... sweet accordion Jamie!!

Put a smile on my face from the first notes. Lovely work!!

Definitely one of those 'they don't write 'em like that anymore' tunes…nice bounce in your version, Jamie

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Miles Davis

Almost All Blues

Enjoy this classic jazz standard by Victor Young.  Bill Evans used to play this with his famous trio, but for this I've created a quartet with muted trumpet on the head and solo.  All done on keyboards.  Thanks as always for listening and for your inspiring comments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vXB2WKky6M

Beautiful Love

Here's one For Miles.  For so many Miles Davis has been the ultimate influence on music.  From the 1940s through his death in 1991, Miles changed music no fewer than 5 times, moving it into new and unchartered territories, and bringing along with him some of the most influential players of each generation and ultimately, the 20th Century.  

For this tribute to Miles I have rounded up the very finest fusion players I know on SoundCloud to participate.  These are highly creative musicians, who understand what Miles has meant, the merging of electricity and jazz, and who are all superb improvisers.  

The trumpet is played by Vivek Patel, who brings with him the lonely Harmon muted sound for which Miles was so well known.  Vivek opens and closes the piece with elegance and with a harmonic and rhythmic edge that Miles was known so well for.  What a treat to have him join us.

Mirko Borach (Stringburner) anchors the essential modal bass line here, helping set and keep that funk groove.  During the 80s, the period from which this draws, Miles was playing with the great Marcus Miller and Darryl Munch Jones.  Think you'll love what German's Mirko brings as always.

The ordering of solos is as follows:

LA's Derek Cornet is a consumate musician, recording so many styles and composing significant pieces as well.  After hearing a fusion tune he recorded that reminded me of Mike Stern's playing (Mike was Miles' guitarist from '81 to '83), I wanted to have his playing on this tribute.  What a great start to the tune!

Australia's CHeeZ tackles the second solo and brings the fire and explosive playing he is know for on SoundCloud.  Anthony hasn't done things with other musicians here on SC and I wanted to give him the change to fly with these other heavyweights.  Wow.

New Jersey's Pinner - Stephen Lipinski - sits in for Miles' other famous early '80s guitarist John Scofield.  And does Pinner bust this out or what?  Bringing the same approach to rhythm and angular soloing that Sco pioneers, this solo is a masterpiece.  

Dan van den Berg follows Pinner with exceptional playing and virtuosity.  Listen how he weaves in and out with the moving chromaticism of my backing horn comping, nailing the movement perfectly.  Wouldn't have don't this tune without Dan, one of the true virtuosos on SC.  

New York based Alto sax pro Matt Criscuolo brings his Kenny Garret sound to For Miles, taking it in and out the way that Miles and Kenny did on stage together for so many years.   

Dutch fusion guitarist Rients Draaisma follows, with what is simply a remarkable display of sound and virtuosity.  This powerful solo showcases why Rients for me is at the very pinnacle of progressive fusion anywhere, pushing the very limits of concept and execution.

Spain's fine multi-instramentalist Santi-Caballero is our second horn, showcasing his tenor playing here.  Santi-Caballero takes it out all over the place here, moving in and out of the mode as Miles and his great '80s tenor player Bob Berg did together.

French keyboard player Julien Apelien is the perfect choice to join the team, and brings a great electric keyboard solo and sound in the style of Miles' Adam Holtzman, using fourths to create tension and ambiguity.

Mirko's fine solo technique is featured after Julien, and he just kills it on this one with his slap bass technique.

Italy's Daniele Turani has the concluding guitar solo and in his playing you will again hear a  superb sense of structure and organization, along with his virtuoso playing.  Such a treat to have him joining this Miles tribute.

For Miles concludes with Vitek's beautiful searching trumpet solo, which showcases his deep understanding and appreciation for Miles, as well as a modern jazz conception that also includes weaving patterns in and out chromatically similar to the great trumpeter Woody Shaw.  What a finish to this special tribute For Miles.

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


For Miles: Patel/Borach/Cornet/CHeeZ/Pinner/vd Berg/Draaisma/Apelian/Mendez/Criscuolo/Turani

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(Photo of Jesus' tomb, place of the resurrection of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem Israel)

Propitiation

Called in dismay
And you heard my pain
With you on my side
Who could be afraid?

Was about to fall
Then I heard your call
Your words of living truth
Will never pass away

[chorus]

He is my strength
And our redemption
Better to trust in Him
Than to trust in man

He is our hope
And our salvation
Better to trust in Him
Than to trust in man

Right hand exalted
Wrought with power
Everlasting mercy
endures today

His propitiation
Is our salvation
He is the gate
the righteous way

[chorus]

This is the day
The Lord has made
hearts are remade
In His holy name

Thank Lord Jesus
For He is good
And His mercy
Forever endures

Propitiation

Trophy (Show Pony)- Fire Ark Radio Production

Trophy

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Questions Piercing Walls - Consciousness Knows No Limitations

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Lyrics:
Laid out over an endless flat plain of white sand
Comfortable bleaching in the naked Sun
Lean-to's covered with tattered cloth close by
Safety in arms from which you cannot pry

No fever here
Dressing hold tight upon the wounds
There isn't a single square inch to clean
No refuse to collect
no steam, no dunes

Discussion holds no value
Traps are welcomed and sought
My surrounding core is this desolate and hot
A life made to be extant
No thought thrown to future or past
Missing desires and prophecies
to declare or recant

This model has all the gears of a clock
Frame of wire suspending rock
Made as a diagram for young minds
to learn and dissect
The basis of which is incorrect

I haven't been into anything else
Have not been approached by the workings of a similar core
How these nights are all Sun
Encroached by the beautiful poignantly sore
How these comforts I tease are
oblivion of war

I'm etching a new model in this flat taste
The warmth of those arms
with need, shame, necessity 
with greedy intent
I have disgraced

Forgive me this trespass
this torrential waste
July 5, 2025

Orrery

Life is very short (be what your are)

Draggin’ Ass

Krill

Remixes

Metamorphosis (Remix)

Continuing with my @ stripped series…A song about you.. me.. me and my wife.. mostly about my Lord Jesus Christ!  It’s a quadruple @ entendre…it’s all around you and me…my wife always says @ it’s all about you.. when I desire something she does not, ha! 🤩… just something I wrote.. to remind me on a daily.. of why I am here.. why I create…purpose and direction.. vertical relationship to horizontal relationships… easier to understand horizontal, when vertical is re established… still hard… in this fallen world…but the cover art is a constant @ reminder.. as I’ve sung in a collaboration.. invisible… but always seen… I’m not perfect.. never claimed to be.. I Do believe I’m forgiven… I hope you seek or continue on the @ narrow path.. 🙌🙏🙏🙏… if you disagree or don’t desire.. that is your choice… I am only encouraging and exhorting! God’s blessings and grace and peace.. never mind the noise of this world… it is passing away… a new one is coming!🙌🙏🙏🙏

Here’s my original.. with drums!🙌

https://on.soundcloud.com/QOrwX0GsaWmRcQCm2v

All About You-stripped

Here's perhaps the classic jazz blues tune of all time - Miles Davis' All Blues.  It was recorded first on Miles' seminal Kind of Blue album in 1959, and has turned into such a famous standard over the years, incorporating so many styles.   I'm lining up jazz musicians to rerecord this shortly, but thought I would issue now a version that was all done on keyboards for your extended listening pleasure.  I was fortunate to have seen Miles perform in the 80s about 10 times but by the mid '60s he was not performing this anymore, leaving it for everyone else to play and record.  

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares. 

All Blues - Miles Davis

When it comes to famous jazz tunes, nothing beats Miles Davis' All Blues.  This classic originally appeared in the seminal 1959 Kind of Blue album, featuring both John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderly.  So for this recording, we are featuring two exceptional pro sax players - Matt Criscuolo http://mattcriscuolo.com on alto and Santi-Caballero Mendez https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero on tenor.  Matt, who's been a friend of mine for over 20 years, opens things up with his gorgeous alto playing, while Santi-Caballero, one of SoundCloud's finest horn and flute players finishes things up with his big tenor sound and great playing.  You can follow Santi-Caballero here on SoundCloud, and for Matt's 7 CDs, go to iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/matt-criscuolo/id76858044

Santi-Caballero and I have recorded 7 tunes together here: https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/swinging-with-santi-caballero

The attached photo is of the stunning Citicorp building in Manhattan

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

All Blues - with Matt Criscuolo / alto sax and Santi-Caballero Mendez / tenor sax

Here's a classic show tune from the 1940 Rogers and Hart musical Pal Joey, that included the great Gene Kelly.  So many people have recorded this, including Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme.  Here's my take on it...

Thanks as alway for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

I Could Write A Book

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.

I Could Write A Book

Jamie Rhind

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