Stand Up

Both the US and the rest of the world will be influenced forever by tomorrow's US election.  This collection includes so many of my favorite musicians, who have joined me the last year, as we have felt together the unrest, the lies and deceit from our current Republican administration.  The world deserves better.

VOTE THEM ALL OUT

jazz

Jamie Rhind's 2021 Collection

Some wonderful guitar work on these recent originals from 2021...
I'm so fortunate to be able to create with each of these musicians

HOT Guitarists 2021  - Jankauskas / Smith / Adams / Lipinski / Bongiovanni / Glavchovski / Borach

The Upload

Monday Wintertime Blues Playlist 2/22/21

My March Favs

JZZY curated by Scooter Holiday

These guys can play!   The collection of my recordings here with superb guitar players.  Every one flat out plays! Almost all originals

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

A Whole Lotta Serious Guitar

Epiphany (prod NerdyCoke) (SLOWED AND REVERB)

I've had the pleasure of recording songs with Aleck and Oddrun.
I sent this song to Aleck and Oddrun for their wonderful interpretation.
Thank you both for this great rendition.
https://soundcloud.com/user-478169612
https://soundcloud.com/aleckrand

22/March/2021

2 Steps From The End (Featuring Oddrun and Aleck)

They've done it again. Another cover of one of my songs. Check out their music here: https://soundcloud.com/spaghetti-hillbillies     
Enjoy!


World Gone Bad---- Words & Music: Pravinand Maharaj AKA-johnny minstrel

I was born downtown on a bed of rats
From a dirty faced kid to a mean ol’ cat
Mama said son you look just like your dad
It’s hard being good in a world gone bad

Don’t wanna go where I don’t want to be
Don’t want to say what I don’t really mean
What a lowdown rotten life I had
It’s hard being good in a world gone bad

Gonna pull up my boots
Pick up my cane
Put on my hat
Get on the road again
Hit that trail before the break of dawn
You can wait all you want but baby I’ll be gone

Some get their kicks in the back of a hearse
Some drink blood just to quench their thirst
Me I’m on the edge going mad
It’s hard being good in a world gone bad

I was born downtown on a bed of rats
From a dirty faced kid to a mean ol’ cat
Mama said son you look just like your dad
It’s hard being good in a world gone bad

Cover picture by Spaghetti Hillbillies
- Words & Music: Pravinand Maharaj

World Gone Bad - Covered by Spaghetti Hillbillies

Wintertime Blues - Lyrics by Tony/Bob - Music & Vocal Bob Warner - Original

Showgasy vous propose ses sélections de tube malagasy pour le saint valentin. A écouter sans modération en tête à tête ou pourquoi pas en tant que célibataire amoureux(se) de belles chansons. Offrez donc à votre partenaire ces quelques bons titres que nous avons pris le soin de trier selon certains critères. Nous en avons sélectionné 10 rien que pour votre plaisir afin que vous puissiez passer un saint valentin 2015 inoubliable et en chanson.

Taratra Hazavana - Olombelo Ricky

Here's another original, Get Funky With Me, with grooving jazz guitarist Scott Nelson bringing it home.  We've set the tune up as a soul jazz groove with rhodes and piano, trading off with Hammond B3 organ and Scott's super tasty electric guitar.  Scott is new to SoundCloud, hails from Pennsylvania, and is simply a superb guitarist and musician.  On this track he brings a definitive John Scofield influence, reminding me of Sco's electric work on A Go Go, with organ and keyboard player John Medeski's group.  Check out Scott's growing and wide range of playing on his SoundCloud.  Damn he can play....

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

Get Funky With Me - with Scott Nelson / guitar

A treat today to share another original, Fresh Air, with Stephen Lipinski on guitar.  Pinner is simply one of the finest jazz fusion guitarists here on SoundCloud...and you will hear why.    Stephen combines high level ability with taste, rhythm and always an angular, cool line.  Check him out on Together, For Miles, and several other favorites.  Such great playing once again Stephen!  Always a treat:)
Head to Pinner's jazz and fusion at https://soundcloud.com/pinner

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



BUY JAMIE'S MUSIC

Fresh Air - with Stephan "Pinner" Lipinski / guitar

Tom Adams is back with some really heavy playing....some of his very best ever.   This one's our tribute to the recent tragedies in Dallas.  

Check out Tom's fantastic playing and gallery at https://soundcloud.com/better-with-the-blues

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

Blues for Dallas - with Tom Adams / guitar

My second collaboration with Jimena and Chris Kinsey.  The song began with a few chords played on a midi keyboard using ‘silky string selection’ in Logic to work out the structure.  I added Guitars, Bass and Drums and asked Chris to add some ‘Kinseyfication’ on Piano and Organ, then, it was over to Jimena to write the lyrics and record her amazing vocal tracks. Once I had all the constituent parts, I set about the final mix and mastering; this is the result.
A huge, huge thanks to Chris and Jimena for their outstanding contributions which have elevated the song to another level.

Credits:-
Jimena:- Lead and backing vocals, lyrics, vocal composition. https://soundcloud.com/jimenaarroyo
Chris Kinsey:- Pianos, Organ, musical composition. https://soundcloud.com/chriskinsey1
Dairv Dubbleyew:- Guitars, Bass, Drums, String Synth, musical composition, production.


Mind Maze

Caught in a nightmare
From which I can’t escape
I gulp in foul air
And mortal dread takes shape

No recollection
Of joyful memories
Sheer desolation
No more victories

The throes of delusion engulf me and swallow me 
It’s getting too hard to wake up from this dream
And all the confusion that toys with my sanity
Invites me to let out a blood-curdling scream

Someone please save me
There’s no way out of this mind maze
My heart betrayed me
And now I’m all lost in this mind maze
Mind maze

Running blind in the wilderness
Chased by unfounded fears
I’m fleeing from the emptiness
That threatens to feed on me

The throes of a nightmare engulf me and swallow me 
Although I’m awake as can possibly be
And all the despair that consumes me and blinds me
Makes me wanna cry, makes me wanna scream

Someone please save me
There’s no way out of this mind maze
(No way out of here)
My heart betrayed me
And now I’m all lost in this mind maze
No way out of here

In these blurry surroundings my mind plays tricks on me
If give in to madness, will my worries disappear?
Oh, if I succumb to the darkness, will you find me in my sleep?
Please don’t take an eternity to come and rescue me
Rescue me

I succumb to this wasteland
Can’t fight this pantomime
As I sink deep in quicksand 
I reach out to you one last time

Someone please save me
There’s no way out of this mind maze
(No way out of here, no way out of here)
My heart betrayed me
And now I’m all lost in this mind maze
(No way out of here)
No way out of here

Save me
Save me from myself

Mind Maze - (Jimena - Chris Kinsey - Dairv Dubbleyew)

Ny mba tsy aritrin'ny saiko
Dia ny ho eo Anilanao
Raha vao nanomboka ny andro
Nahafantarako Anao
Tiako ho lazaina
Ho bitsihina Aminao
Ny ao anatiko mangina
Tsy foiko raha ho zaraina
Fa ho antsika sy Ianao 
Satria Ianao no mba Namako

Taratra Hazavana Ricky

Original:
https://www.npr.org/event/music/569203961/tyler-the-creator-tiny-desk-concert

0:05 | Boredom
8:36 | See You Again
13:15 | Glitter

-----------------------------------------------------
Tyler, The Creator's Tiny Desk performance was a first for many reasons. It was the Los Angeles rapper's first time performing at our offices, but moreover, it was the Tiny Desk's first nighttime performance, a special request from Tyler and his team in order to professionally light the "stage" themselves. Members of Tyler's lighting crew came to the office a day before to set it up, eventually bathing him and his band in shades of fuchsia, orange and blue — one for each song — during the early evening show.

Flower Boy, Tyler's latest album, is much like this Tiny Desk performance; a surprising departure from the expected. Four albums in, he has matured as a producer, rapper and human being. Often equated to hip-hop's class clown, the 26-year-old peels back his own mask of immaturity to reveal a young adult grappling with anxiety, fear and uncertainty of self.

After he was done, Tyler did something of a modified mic-drop, throwing his tambourine in celebration of what he and his band had accomplished. Always one to stay casually connected with his fans, Tyler made time — nearly an hour after the performance was done —- to pose for photos, sign merch and crack jokes with (and on) everyone around him.

Set List

"Boredom"

"See You Again"

"Glitter"
MUSICIANS
Tyler Okonma (vocals, keys), Jaret Landon (MD/Keys) Dré Pinckney (Bass), Dalton Hodo (Drums), Kaye Fox (background vocals), Kiandra Richardson (background vocals)

CREDITS
Producers: Bob Boilen, Morgan Noelle Smith; Creative Director: Bob Boilen; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Lighting: Max McDougall; Videographers: Morgan Noelle Smith, Maia Stern, Beck Harlan, Alyse Young; Production Assistants: Paul Wichmann, Salvatore Maicki; Photo: Jennifer Kerrigan/NPR

For more Tiny Desk concerts, subscribe to our podcast:
http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510292/tiny-desk-concerts-video

Tyler, The Creator: Tiny Desk Concert (NPR Music)

Just check out Rients Draaisma's magical fusion and rock guitar playing on this classic 70's hit.   Simply remarkable the ease which he navigates the groove.  Rients is one of the finest musicians and creators on SoundCloud, and such a treat to again be recording with him.  Rients has several great albums out, and plays with mastery that is surpassed by few guitarists.  A musician's musician.
Stick with this through the end for smiles, memories and a true treat from the master

Follow Rients' music here:  https://soundcloud.com/rients-draaisma

Low Rider - with Rients Draaisma / guitar

Raúl Rodríguez & Rajery

Temas extraídos de grabación concierto en Antanarivo (Madagascar) el 3 de mayo 2019

Rajery & Raúl Rodríguez   'MISIAKA X BULERÍA'  live

The Netherland's incredible Rients Draissma tears up our blues rock original Change It Up.   He's simply one of the finest guitar players we've heard, pushing sound, rhythm and harmony.   Check out Rients' superb jazz-rock fusion guitar and arrangements:  http://www.rientsdraaisma.com - his latest album Guitales is simply burning http://www.rientsdraaisma.com/shop-guitales/, and follows up on so many Tribal Tech and Weather Report influenced compositions:  https://soundcloud.com/rients-draaisma.  Also check out his iJam album, of heavy fusion burners.
I've been fortunate to have recorded a number of tunes with Rients, among some of my favorites here on SoundCloud. 

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

Change It Up - Rients Draaisma / Jamie Rhind

The lyrics listed below inspired Chuck to create this Country track.
Lyrics by Tony Harris
Vocals, Music, Production & Mix by Chuck Aaron

AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL
WAS A SMALL COUNTRY STORE
BUYIN' A COKE AND MOON PIE
IT WAS QUITE A THRILL

WHERE THE OLD MEN GATHERED
TO PLAY DOMINO'S AND CHECKERS
YOUNG BOYS GATHERED TO PLAY BALL
IN THE PASTURE OUT BACK

THE KID'S LOVED CATCHIN' FIRE FLIES
AND PUTTIN' THEM IN A JAR
WATCHIN' THEM LIGHT UP
UNDER THE STARY SKIES

(CHORUS)
GOIN' BACK IN TIME
WITH COUNTRY ON MY MIND
GOIN' BACK IN TIME
TO A SIMPLER TIME
YEA, GOIN' BACK IN TIME
TO A SIMPLER TIME

SETTIN' OUT FISH HOOKS
ON A SMALL CREEK BANK
SITTIN' AROUND A CAMP FIRE
TELLIN' STORIES AND JOKES

NO CITY STREETS OR BOULEVARDS
PLAYED SOME BASKETBALL
WITH  HOME MADE GOALS
IN OUR BACK YARDS

NO I-PAD OR I-PHONE
JUST SOME GOOD TIMES
AND GOOD MEMORIES
OF A WONDERFUL HOME

(REPEAT CHORUS 1 or 2 times)

2019 © Lyrics by Tony Harris (BMI)

Back In Time - Lyrics by Tony Harris - Featuring Chuck Aaron - Original

A new blues rock original, We Need A Change.  Joined here by the super soulful vocals and lyrics of Annie Smart, and fine blues inspired guitar playing of Alec DeCaprio.   Annie's such a complete musician, having grown up in a truly musical family that has been carried on for generations.  She's now a choir director and piano teacher, and has created such great lines and harmonies to tell the story.  Alec's only 21, yet years ahead in his maturity and vision.  Follow these fine musicians and friends:
Annie Smart:  https://soundcloud.com/annie-smart-1
Alec DeCaprio:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2XvW8Za1u9oK-zp5Ni8a0g

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

We Need A Change - Annie Smart / Alec DeCaprio / Jamie Rhind

Things are a mess.  We have to do better.  We need unity.

You're Tearing Us Apart

Complicit

Get Out The Vote.  Time for a big change.
Joined here on our soul jazz original with the formidable Georg Boehme on Bari sax and Les Thomas on guitar.  Follow these guys great playing and creating:
https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme
https://soundcloud.com/les_thomas

And thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.  Time for a change.

Get Out The Vote - Georg Boehme / Les Thomas / Jamie Rhind

Civil Unrest

Always gotta love what Barcelona's Santi-Caballero Mendez does and with Friction, his tenor playing here cuts through the heavy Hammond organ.  We're feeling so much tension  all over the world, and this one captures a little of it. Follow Sam's great sax and flute work here: https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero And for an extended playlist of the recordings we have together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/swinging-with-santi-caballero
Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

Be well.  Mask up

Friction - Sam Mendez / Jamie Rhind

Some heavy original funk rock here again.  Joined by three great players - the super funky Stringburner on bass, rock guitarist exceptionale Daniele Turani on guitar, and young keyboard whiz Snuppuluppen on keys.  Exciting to get these guys together again.  The tune started out when I was playing with electric guitar patches on my keyboard, which have gotten so realistic now.  Worked through some power chords and got the players.  Mirko again sets up the deep groove, Will takes the great keyboard solo, followed by Daniele's electric guitar.  Cool music for uncool times.  Things are a mess here.
  
And check out more and follow these fine musicians: 
https://soundcloud.com/stringburner
https://soundcloud.com/snuppeluppen
https://soundcloud.com/danieleturani

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

Power Play - Mirko Borach / Will Paasche / Daniele Turani / Jamie Rhind

Pretty Summer Town

From the album "Blu Skies For you" (2021) of Blai Vidal Aïgo Project
Blai Vidal -  Classical Guitar & Voicings
Wojteck Sobolewski - Double Bass
Alex Duato - Piano
José Llorach - Percussion

Samba Para el Sol

In This Old House - Songwriter Beth Williams  
LYRIC VIDEO: https://youtu.be/GscPrfESqTo
Available https://bethwilliamsmusic.bandcamp.com/

In This Old House - Beth Williams

𝙇𝙚𝙩 𝙈𝙚 𝘽𝙚 // 𝘿𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙙 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙖 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙨 𝙁𝙩. 𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙖 𝘽𝙪𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙧

We're coming to a close in the most difficult 2020.  Some original blues rock with Tom Adams seems most appropriate.  This one has a Genesis sound in parts - not sure how but it does.  To go back to Tom, he's a hired gunslinger but for some reason he never asks for cash.  But he's on the money again with this one.  If you're not following Tom you should check him out!: https://soundcloud.com/user-342548892
And for an extensive playlist of our 60 tunes together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/tearing-it-up-with-tom-adams-1

Be safe, be well, and let's keep things rolling into the new year.  
Thanks to so many for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

Long Way Home - Tom Adams / Jamie Rhind

Our Latin original Let Me In is dedicated to those at the crossroads, who are making the attempt to immigrate to another country in search of a better life.  Joining me are the exceptional Georg Boehme and Sam Mendez on flute, Sergio Perraga on percussion, and Joe Bongiovanni on guitar.   Sam's on the left channel and Georg the right.  Just check out what they have to say:
https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme
https://soundcloud.com/joe-bongiovanni
https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero
https://soundcloud.com/sergioparraga

As we depart the cruel 2020 and into what also seems to be an unforgiving 2021, let us remember those less fortunate who seek greener pastures, despite the challenges...Let Me In

Be safe, be well.  And thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

Let Me In - Georg Boehme / Joe Bongiovanni / Sam Mendez / Sergio Perraga / Jamie Rhind

Keyboards By Jamie Rhind, https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind
Other Instruments By Martin Reed.
Produced By Martin Reed & Jamie Rhind.

Mysteries Of The Blim Part 2  (Feat Jamie Rhind)

Time to bring things together.  Sam Mendez's beautiful soprano sax playing here says it all.
Follow Sam's great collection music, including his recent Bach flute Sonata.
https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero
and our music together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/swinging-with-santi-caballero
Be smart, be safe and wear those masks.

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

Harmony - Sam Mendez / Jamie Rhind

As we move into 2021, best of health to all.  We have a fabulous group joining this original fusion tune, I'm Peached.  Takes significance here in the US and around the world.  We hope you enjoy the music.  On bass the always fired up Stringburner https://soundcloud.com/stringburner.  Calaminus https://soundcloud.com/calaminus is back adding his creative synth work.  Two serious fusion guitarists join the fun -  Pinner https://soundcloud.com/pinner opens with his right rhythm guitar, Vlad Glavchovski https://soundcloud.com/vlad-glavchovski has the wild opening solo, followed by Pinner's great sound and impressive playing.  Jahn Neu plays the haunting electric trumpet throughout the recording.

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

I'm Peached - Borach / Calaminus / Glavchovski / Lipinski / Neu / Rhind

"Interstellar Magnetic Song"  Album N°14

1- 023,
At 3:20 in the morning, my Moog hung on to a melody... by tinkering with it a bit, he got me off the track in 2'14". I was very happy with him, but in the morning I triturated an extra potard... and here comes 023!

___🎹_____A_N_O_T_H_E_R___M_U_S_I_C_____🎹___

🛠 - Made with MOOG & Modular / Multi-tracks
🎹 - Composed, arranged, performed, produced by Pier WILL & Studio 4H09
🔲 - Artwork  -  Pier WILL
🙏 - Acknowledgements - Ableton, Arturia, Audacity, Cantabile, MSI, Focusrite, Korg, M-Audio, Sony, SoundCloud, Teac, Techniks, Yamaha.
⚙️ - #Ambient #Movies #Electro #Experimental #Minimal #Space 

❤️Love, 🕊️Peace, 🙏Respect

1 - 023

My new song writing effort. 😊 Mastered by the lovely and talented Sander (@wane-of-summer) 🎧🎹🌷🎼💕🎤

Balloon

℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded and mixed using Logic. Mastered in Soundcloud
Guitars played: Taylor 714CE (DADGAD tuning - all tuned down a half step).
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography.

I wrote this song during the lockdown, imagining how much more difficult things would have been in days gone by, when earlier generations had so very little means of communication. Travelling minstrels would go from town to town and entertain the local people. In my mind, I pictured townsfolk gathering to listen to a minstrel's song, bringing a message of hope, that their future would be brighter, all joining in to sing in candlelight, illuminating the darkness. I hope this song brings some joy in dark times.
LYRICS:
The people gathered round
To hear the minstrel sing
A song to bring them hope
That winter would turn to spring
The frost was biting deep
And the snow had lain so long
So the people gathered round 
To hear the minstrel’s song

The winds of change are coming
Let them hear you sing
The winds of change will turn
Winter into spring

Times may be hard
But somehow we know
That seasons will come
And seasons will go
So together all as one
With voices so strong
People gathered round
To sing the minstrel’s song 

The winds of change are coming
Let them hear you sing
The winds of change will turn
Winter into spring

Their voices all rang out
Out into the night
The magic of a song
Sung by candle light
Watching the flames
Of the candles burn
Waiting …for 
The winds of change to turn

The winds of change are coming
Let them hear you sing
The winds of change will turn
Winter into spring

The Winds of Change

The Winds Of Change

The Murray River is the Longest River in Australia from a spring in the Snowy Mountains , Forming the state border between New South Wales and Victoria and on through South Australia to complete its 2,508 KM journey and empty into the Southern Ocean, The Lifeblood of 3 States. It is The Big Water.
On Bandcamp for purchase

Ride The Big Water

The exceptional Michael-Louis Smith joins me on guitar on our fusion original WTF.  What a crazy 2021 we are already having here in the US, and our edgy music represents a little of the tension we are all feeling.  Mike's such a wonderful person and recording artist, and leads his killer jazz ensemble Brooklyn Circle:  http://www.mlsmusic.com
Follow him here on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/michael-louis-smith

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

We'll get through this tension - somehow

WTF - Michael-Louis Smith / Jamie Rhind

Some heavy fusion for some heavy times...
Audric is the consummate musician, a musician's musician, and the top guitar expert in Philadelphia.  So I was again thrilled when he joins me here on our original, It's Not What It Seems.  With a handoff of the framework, Audric went to work - completely inspired - and turned it into this.   Not only the guitar, but additional keys, percussion, structure and ideas.   There's a lot to listen to here - from the spectacular initial guitar work to the harmonic structure and lines.  
And check out Audric's impressive galleries:
https://soundcloud.com/audric-jankauskas
https://soundcloud.com/audric-and-friends
The award winning photo of an ice cave in Iceland was taken by our son Tyler

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

It's Not What It Seems - Audric Jankauskas / Jamie Rhind

Something about that birthday smile.  Joined here by Barcelona's finest, the wonderful Sam Mendez on tenor sax https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero and Sergio Parraga on latin percussion https://soundcloud.com/sergioparraga
Follow these guys - Sergio is always sharing the finest fresh latin jazz

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

Birthday Smile - Sam Mendez / Sergio Parraga / Jamie Rhind

JoJo in the Jazz House !!!
I present for you a wonderful Jazz standard called
"How deep Is The Ocean "
Written in 1932 by the incredible Irving Berlin. It was an adaptation of an even earlier song he wrote in 1930 for the Al Jolson movie "Mammy" .
It has since been recorded by artists as diverse as Chet Baker, Nat King Cole, Miles Davis , Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Eric Clapton , Diana Krall and most recently by Solveig Slettahjell.

Recorded, Produced and Mastered by CC at JBStudios Prague.

Enjoy XXX

How Deep Is The Ocean

Hey Everybody!
We hope you all are doing well and you enjoy our new song!
Thorsten & Lammbone https://soundcloud.com/lammbone

Lyrics:
I catch a whiff of sweet aroma from the restaurant across the street
As I tiptoe atop these cobblestones, hoping to get something to eat
Maybe I forgot to tell you I loved you? Or maybe it‘s time for a change?
I’m left with these unanswered questions that I wish would just go away.

Could this be a love song? One that you will never hear
Or am I lonely, and these thoughts are just me being insincere?
‘Cause I just smiled at the waitress, who reminded me of you
So I drop some coins on the counter, tiptoe back across these cobblestones
As far away from you as I can be. 

I don‘t really want to see you anymore
Close my eyes for a moment trying to forget
But there you are in my memories
Where you’ll always be.

Written by Thorsten Schnüttgen and Mark Lamm
All rights reserved.

Could this be a love song?

Pangäa - Could This Be A Love Song?

Revised Version of an Original. Lyrics, Music Creation, Production, Instruments, and Vocals by Riff Beach via RiffWerx Records & Production - 2021.
Misty Morning Sunrise © - 2021
Riff Beach - Original – (RiffWerx)
Peeking through our bedroom window
It’s a Misty Morning Sunrise
Light wrapped in golden glow
Shines like your loving eyes
Just like your sparkling eyes 
Love must come from within
Or, it can’t shine without
Being here with you, My Love
Well, you know that’s what Love’s about  
Yeah, that’s what Life’s all about 
(Chorus)
You know it’s a brand new Day 
Embrace its new surprise 
Good things headed our way 
In the Misty Morning Sunrise 
In the Misty Morning Sunrise
Misty Morning Sunrise 
We could just dive right in
While it hovers all around 
The air it feels so thin
Don’t quite know where we’re all bound
Who knows where we’ll be found?
(Bridge)
We started a little fire 
As yesterday slipped away
To be filled with such desire 
It’s a blessing I heard you say
So, don’t let it get away
No, don’t you let it slip away

Sunny Beaches All Around

“If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between.”
― Jonathan Carroll, Bones of the Moon

Sir Sunshine Brain

"Secret Dream" electronic music and vocals ,
I was thinking about dreams and how they can suddenly come back to you during the day, sometimes in just a glimmer.
art work: two drawings of mine merged in photoshop

Secret Dream

Cardiacs cover. 
I just had to, warts and all. I got blisters on me fingers! 

Following around to see a life that's never in
Always calling itself on its own phone
Though its never quite at home in the world today
See it to arranging the day
Prepared in its own special way
With added loving care
Though its not been there since yesterday
Looking so hard for a cause
And it don't care what it is
And never really ever seeing eye to eye
Though it doesn't really mind
Perhaps that's why
It never really saw
Never really saw
Saw
It never really...
Following around to see a life that's never in
Always calling itself on its own phone
Though its never quite at home in the world today

Music and lyrics by Tim Smith

Is This The Life

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.