Lou Taverna's an exceptional guitarist and musician.  So many love his sound, his playing, his abilities to perform and write across many genres with proficiency and true artistic flair.  Music comes together for Lou and he elevates everything that he's involved with.   This playlist is of the growing collection of music I've had the pleasure recording with Lou, many of which tunes also have other great players and friends joining us too.  

Follow Louis's sound here:  https://soundcloud.com/louis-taverna

Tearing it up with Lou Taverna & Friends

Thanks to all the exceptional musicians who continue to join me to create and to those who listen.  This collection is of our 2022 recordings

Boehme Borach Jankauskas Lipinski Mendez Parraga Petrocchi Rhind Simon Taverna  van den Berg

High Stakes - Lou Taverna / Jamie Rhind

Feelin' It - Lou Taverna / Jamie Rhind

Spring 2024 Trip 248

Jamie Rhind 2024

Jamie Rhind + Friends 2024

Thanks to all who have joined me here and also to those who listen to our music

Jamie

So Many Of My Favorite Recordings

Daily Drops

The music speaks for itself.  I'm joined here again by the superb Louis Taverna on electric guitar, whose playing shows no boundaries.  Check out what he does throughout our funk fusion original Back to Back.  Pretty sure I go down in this duel! 
Follow Louis' outstanding recordings - such sophisticated rock, blues and fusion playing and writing:  https://soundcloud.com/louis-taverna

Thanks as always too for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.  Be well - this thing's not over yet....

Back To Back - Louis Taverna / Jamie Rhind

Love what happens with the right musicians and on our original, Can't Get There Without You, it all comes together.  Sam's playing both flute and tenor sax, Lou's on guitar and Sergio on percussion.   The kind of stuff that lifts the spirits.  Follow these wonderful musicians:
https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero
https://soundcloud.com/louis-taverna
https://soundcloud.com/sergioparraga

thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Can't Get There Without You - Sam Mendez / Louis Taverna / Sergio Parraga / Jamie Rhind

Our fusion original Diminishing Returns gives guitarist Lou Taverna a chance to strut his stuff again.  Spectacular guitar soloing across and around the diminished and whole tone scales taking the music into the stratosphere.  Love his contributions and playing.  Check out his wonderful gallery of originals:  https://soundcloud.com/louis-taverna

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

Diminishing Returns - Louis Taverna / Jamie Rhind

The wonderful Lou Taverna goes to town on our funky blues original Listen Up.  Check out his outstanding sound and playing over this blues rock groove.

And a link to his wonderful gallery:   https://soundcloud.com/louis-taverna

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

Listen Up - Louis Taverna / Jamie Rhind

Catching The Wave - Lou Taverna / Andy McLean / Sergio Parraga / Jamie Rhind

Some fresh new blues rock with the exceptional  Lou Taverna joining me on guitar.  He's got fire and so much groove too.
Check out and follow Lou's sweet gallery of originals:  https://soundcloud.com/louis-taverna

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.  Climbed to # 7 in SoundCloud's Hot & New Jazz and Blues category.

Some original latin jazz with Barcelona's Sam Mendez on flute and Sergio Parraga on latin percussion.  Follow these wonderful creative musicians:

https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero
https://soundcloud.com/sergioparraga

Reached #17 on the Hot and New playlist in the Jazz & Blues category

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

Secret - Sam Mendez / Sergio Parraga / Jamie Rhind

Breaking The Bank - Mirko Borach / Lou Taverna / Jamie Rhind

Jamie Rhind joins me on a wild adventurous musical adventure!

FUNKY CURVES ON A ROCKY ROAD (Audric Jankauskas/Jamie Rhind-2022)

The horrific situation in Ukraine is on everyone's mind - Gathered to tell our story here are great friends and musicians who bring their hearts to the unfolding situation. Sennid Simon's super soulful lyrics and groove are so welcoming. Our two exceptional guitarists - Stephan Lipinski and Lou Taverna - alternate a total of 6 not to be missed burning solos across the funk, Georg Boehme's tight baritone sax adds glue with both funky inside and outside playing and Sergio Parraga's exciting congas and lead quinto drive it all forward and add to the tension. Lou's added some additional rhythm and harmony guitar parts for even more color.
Just doing our musical thing for Ukraine and freedom...

Follow these fine musicians:
@sennid
@pinner
@louis-taverna
@sergioparraga

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares. And continuing prayers for Ukraine...

Funk The War - Sennid Simon / Stephan Lipinski / Lou Taverna / Sergio Parraga / Jamie Rhind

Purchase here:
https://blacklightdistrictmusic.bandcamp.com/track/california-reaper-single-mix

California Reaper (Single Mix)

I'm joined here again by Jamie Rhind on the keyboards/synths and piano for this jazz fusion track. Jamie's two intense synth solos and his absolutely beautiful passages for the outro section speak for themselves. Grateful to have him join me on this one!
Jamie Rhind - All keyboard/synth solos and piano solos, extra pianos and backing synths
Louis Taverna - All guitars, bass, drums, electric pianos and synth pads

Check out Jamie's soundcloud! https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind

All rights reserved ©

Artwork by Circe Denyer

High Stakes - Featuring Jamie Rhind

Here's some wonderful new music from the UK's fine Andy "Sterling" McLean.  Andy created the entire tune, playing each instrument and then asked me to join him with a solo, which I did with a piano to match the piano comping he had added.  Andy started this over 20 years ago and broke it out in our new year to suggest the new start to something great.  

Follow Andy's very fine woodwind playing here, as well as his many jazzy compositions: https://soundcloud.com/mcleanaf

And to our listeners, have a healthy and happy 2024 and beyond - thanks for all your time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

Andy McLean / Jamie Rhind - New Beginning

Some more fun with Pinner to start the new year.  Check out and follow all his guitar goodness - https://soundcloud.com/pinner  we've recorded over 100 tunes together and always a great time.\:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/smokin-with-stephan-stephan

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

Rain Dance - Stephan Lipinski / Jamie Rhind

That's Just The Way It Is - Jamie Rhind

Do You Have A Minute? - Jamie Rhind

The great Elvin Jones use to drive music with his cymbals and power behind John Coltrane and McCoy Tyler.   Joining me here again on a 12/8 modal groove to celebrate the sound of Trane is Cologne's Georg Boehme, a superb Bari Sax and woodwind player.   https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme. Together we remember these great moments from the 60s

Here's a playlist of our recordings together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/grooving-with-georg-boehme

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

Step Out - Georg Boehme / Jamie Rhind

Having some fun again with the wonderful Andy McLean on saxes - such sweet lines, harmonies and sound 

Check out more of Andy's great playing here:  https://soundcloud.com/mcleanaf

Thanks for your generous time listening, for your comments and your shares

Wah Tz Up?   -   Andy McLean & Jamie Rhind

A dark experimental electronic soundtrack 🤍

Everything In Love

All For You

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Art Expressed in Music – Picasso's Brilliance
March 2024
Duration: 3:05
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 
John-Marc Ventimiglia: jagged shards sound effects 
Visit: @john-marc-ventimiglia
Pablo Picasso (October 25, 1881 to April 8, 1973) was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most-influential artists of the 20th century.  The enormous body of Picasso’s work remains, and the legend lives on—a tribute to the vitality of the “disquieting” Spaniard with the “sombre…piercing” eyes who superstitiously believed that work would keep him alive.  Picasso's output, especially in his early career, is often periodized.  The most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), Neoclassicism to Surrealism (1921-1937) and Post-War Work (1937 – 1970s).  Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, from his African–influenced period, marks a radical break from traditional composition and perspective in painting. It depicts five naked women composed of flat, splintered planes whose faces were inspired by Iberian sculpture and African masks. The compressed space they inhabit appears to project forward in jagged shards.  Picasso unveiled this monumental painting, that precursors Cubism, in his Paris studio after months of revision.  Picasso said the ethnic primitivism evoked in these masks moved him to "liberate an utterly original artistic style”.  The Avignon of the work’s title is a reference to a street in Barcelona famed for its brothels.  Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.  Picasso died on April 8, 1973, at the age of 91, from heart failure, reportedly while he and his wife Jacqueline were entertaining friends for dinner.  Considered radical in his work, Picasso continues to garner reverence for his technical mastery, visionary creativity; paralleling the entire development of modern art in the 20th century.
For morin khuur violin, dudek, bansuri, bamboo flute, hecklephone, bassoon, kalimba, marimba, double bass, ethnic percussion and jagged shards sound effects

Art Expressed In Music - Picasso's Brilliance

It was a time when downtempo was called Slow....spécial Thanks to Stepa.K for her a cappella….

SHADOW.   Feat Stepa.K

About time Lou and I turned it up a little bit.  Such a tremendous musician in every way - listen to Lou's deep appreciation for the blues - tasty fire.  Always laying it down so well.   Check out and follow Lou's wonderful music, albums and releases:  

https://soundcloud.com/louis-taverna



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

Inner City Jive -- Lou Taverna / Jamie Rhind

rumbustious 'demo' (with Falsestart)

37°

Northside Storyteller (New Version 2024)

Had my lovely acoustic piano tuned recently so felt like it was time for some song writing there. 😊❤️

Thanks to my lovely BF Sander for this wonderful mastering job. @wane-of-summer for his fabulous music 😊🎶❤️🎵🎼🎹

Love Me And Leave Me (with acoustic piano)

I BRING THE NOISE  feat. IPG1 & Paploviante
IPG1: Vocals 
https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/i-bring-the-noise-vocals-86-bpm
Paploviante: Bass
https://soundcloud.com/paul-racle
Lillithe: Backing Track, Production and Arrangement

I Bring The Noise feat. IPG1 & Paploviante

Here's another jam that takes inspiration from the guitar work of Richie Kotzen on Poison's Bodytalk. 
This time I asked my good friend and great keyboardist, the one and only Jamie Rhind to join along with me! What can I say, he tears it up with me on this one!

Jamie Rhind: All Main Keyboards and Synths
Louis Taverna: All Guitars, Bass, Additional Keyboards, Organs, and Drum Programming
Here's Jamie's soundcloud: @jamie-rhind
Check out his incredibly extensive catalog of great music!

Duck Talk - Featuring Jamie Rhind - Keyboards

Let's go for a stroll in Madrid....  All recorded on keyboards.

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

BUY JAMIE'S MUSIC

A Walk in Madrid

1971 was an important time in music, where electricity was changing the landscape and Rock, Funk, Soul and Jazz were all merging into psychedelic grooves.  Marshal stacks were often taller than the players, the players were higher than the Marshal stacks, Strats and Les Pauls were the axes of choice, Hammond B3 Organs and Fender Rhodes keyboards could compete for volume with the guitars, and the hair was even longer than the jams.   Woodstock was a recent memory, Jimi Hendrix had just passed but had moved into the funk and soul inspired Band of Gypsies period, Sly & The Family Stone was heating it up with heavy funk and soul inspired grooves, and Miles Davis had just released the seminal Bitches Brew fusion double album that literally changed music.  This was where it was at, with each of these musicians and bands being influenced by each other.  Great stuff that produced legendary sessions and recordings and pushed music forward with power, energy, groove and volume.  

1971 commemorates this time and mindset, and recreates the feel with friends from around the world who continuously exhibit this spirit, energy and hair in their playing:

Alpha Roots - djembe  Stuttgart, Germany  https://soundcloud.com/alpha-roots
Rikard From - Hammond B3 organ  Umea, Sweden  https://soundcloud.com/rikard-from
Stephen "Pinner" Lipinski - guitar  New Jersey, USA  https://soundcloud.com/pinner
Scott Nelson - guitar  Pennsylvania, USA  https://soundcloud.com/scott-nelson-364333064
Marco Oversteegen - guitar  Almere, Netherlands  https://soundcloud.com/marco-oversteegen
Justin Valente  - guitar  New Jersey, USA  https://soundcloud.com/justin-valente
Jorg Calaminus - Dusseldorf, Germany - mastering

A couple of words on each of the players:  ALPHA ROOTS - Alphio was the perfect choice to add his soulful African djembe percussion voice.  One of the most prolific and inclusive musicians here on SoundCloud, always speaking with a positive voice.  Check out his often reggae and dub inspired recordings.  RICKARD FROM - my favorite B3 player here on SoundCloud.  We haven't recorded before but wanted his beautiful sound and also wanted these other heavy cats to be introduced to his Jimmy Smith type playing.  STEPHEN "PINNER" LIPINSKI - one of the hottest jazz fusion guitarists on SoundCloud, bringing more modern Scofieldesque jazz lines and harmonies to 1971.  SCOTT NELSON - another burning jazz and fusion guitarist, Scott sound combines elements of the contemporary guitar masters - Scofield, Metheny and Martino - to create his extraordinary playing.  MARCO OVERSTEEGEN - no one on SC has a closer overall sound to Hendrix, and we needed Marco's fabulous rhythm playing and soloing to anchor this 1971 mood.  JUSTIN VALENTE - Justin's my favorite blues rock guitarist, and just had to be a part of this summit, bringing us that heavy electric sound of Jimi, The Allman Bros, Freddie King and Stevie Ray Vaughn.  

So here's 1971.  Again.

Thanks to these great players for joining me and contributing so much to 1971, and also to all the listener, for your generous time, your comments and your shares.  And a special thanks to Jorg Calaminus for taking the initiative to master the sound for us to give you this real fine mix.
  

1971 - Alpha Roots, Rikard From, Scott Nelson, Marco Oversteegen, Pinner, Justin Valente, Jamie

To the Nameless Dead

As Rome Burns

Boston's MasterTonyD  https://soundcloud.com/mastertonyd is the SoundCloud guy who is a master in Funk and has a Masters in Funk.  Make that a PHD.  So when MasterTonyD suggests a groove, you run with it.  We've got a real nice thing going here and hope you love it too.  Tony wrote this one and a big thumbs up too.

Follow MasterTonyD's heavy funk grooves on SC: 

Thanks for your most generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

Abstract  -  a Jamie Rhind and Master Tony D collab

Why don't you take in a little latin jazz as you look to the blue waters of the Caribbean...across St. John's stunning Trunk Bay...

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

Agua Azul

A Positive Feeling

Prescription:Medicide

Guilt By Association

Waves Ahead of the Ocean

Sonic Demon

Microcosmos

Everything Unsaid Before (Все, Що Не Сказано Раніше)

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.