Has been a very musical and creative 2015 with so many friends here on SoundCloud.  A huge thanks to all the players who continue to contribute to the wonderful tracks and music that we regularly create.  

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2015 Collaborations

Thanks Tom for the open invite on this Friday blues jam.  Looking forward to hearing others' tracks too.  Always a pleasure to be on stage with you!!!

As always, we appreciate your time listening, your comments and your shares

Friday Blues Collab  - With Tom Adams / 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

Here's a smooth souljazz recording Tom Adams, BigMamaDee (Debbie Deijkers)and I recorded recently.  Features BigMamaDee's beautiful voice, and Tom doing his George Benson interpretation.  Not the usual blues we have pulled off together in the past, but something a little softer and smoother to start the New Year with.  So great to be playing with SC's blues legendary duo, who have recorded more than 30 tunes here together.

Check out Debbie's gallery at https://soundcloud.com/search?q=bigmamadee .  She's going through some really difficult times now and I know would appreciate your love and positive words.  And if you are looking for more of Tom here, search for his name and you will find so many fine collaborations with other musicians.  He has recently closed his personal SC Gallery, but his legend lives on with the many recordings we have.  And he promises to pop up and surprise everyone with some new collaborations too.  This link is to about 7 fun ones we have done together https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/tearing-it-up-with-tom-adams-1

I took the sunset photo this summer at the charming town of Menemsha, on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

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

Real Love - with Tom Adams and BigMamaDee

Busting out some heavy funk fusion for you with this one.  We've got three of my very favorite electric guitarists featured here  - all from up North in Europe -- Anders Moberg from Sweden https://soundcloud.com/anders-moberg-1 , Ian Tait from Scotland https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait , and Marco Oversteegen from The Netherlands https://soundcloud.com/marco-oversteegen .  I had invited them all to perform on the previously released Together world jam, and we've brought them back again for this extended jam.   Extra credit here goes to Marco, who helped create the backing track with his fine rhythm playing and comping.  You'll hear it behind all of the solos.  Anders opens this up, followed by Ian and then Marco to close.  I'm doing my thing on synth between the guitar soloing.  

Thanks as always for your time listening, for your comments and for your shares.  Please check out each of these fine players on their own galleries. 

Funking Around With The Boys  - with Anders Moberg, Ian Tait and Marco Oversteegen - guitars

What a thrill to be able to record Jobim's all time classic How Insensitive with world class Brazilian musician Nanny Assis and Vocalatti   https://soundcloud.com/vocalatti .  Nanny is a fixture on the New York City jazz and latin music scene, performing regularly at clubs such as the Blue Note and SOBs (Sound of Brazil), where he leads the Sunday brunch jam sessions.  A consummate world class musician, Nanny is multi dimensional, as a percussionist, vocalist, composer and guitarist.  The opening verse is sung by Nanny in his native Portuguese, and Vocalatti is featured on the second verse in her native English.  All percussion is Nanny and Vocalatti has added some beautiful harmonies to her vocals.  

I first studied this beautiful bossa nova standard in the '80s with the late jazz guitarist Emily Remler.  This piece is dedicated to her for all she has meant to me.

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

How Insensitive - Antonio Carlos Jobim - with Nanny Assis and Vocalatti

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

Here's an original Latin Jazz groove that includes the very fine Spanish flutist Santi-Caballero Mendez https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero and German bassist Mirko Borach (Stringburner) https://soundcloud.com/stringburner.  Wrote this tune with kind of a Santana groove, and think you will love what Santi-Caballero does with his gorgeous flute playing.  I have the trombone patch solos.  Route 251 is named after the classic II-V-I chord changes around which the tune is built.  Please check out and follow both Santi-Caballero and Stringburner's galleries - you will love their musicianship.

As always, thanks for your time listening, your comments, and your shares.



Route 251 - with Santi-Caballero Mendez flute and Stringburner (Mirko Borach) bass

Blues For Charlie is a dedication to the lives that were lost recently in Paris and now Copenhagen.  Our hope is that the emotion of the playing here touches people to remind them of the sadness of these horrible acts.  

Three very fine guitarists have joined me in this tribute - Tom Adams, Ian Tait and Kevin McCuistion.   Kevin leads us off and is followed by Tom and then Ian.  Check out and follow their great playing:

https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait
https://soundcloud.com/kevin-mccuistion-1

We Are Charlie

Blues For Charlie - with Tom Adams, Ian Tait and Kevin McCuistion guitars

Billy Preston has always been an important figure in music for me, and I asked the very fine vocalist Martin Jones to join me with his soulful singing on this 70s classic.  Billy was always one of the funkiest keyboard players out there, and was often called the 5th Beatle.   Because of Billy's superb piano, synth and organ skills, he was a top session player and toured with many musicians including Eric Clapton, Ray Charles, The Beatles, Little Richard and Sam Cooke.  Here's our tribute to the late great Billy Preston, who wrote hits such as Space Race, Will it Go Round in Circles, Outa Space, That's the Way God Planned it and co-wrote You are So Beautiful, which Joe Cocker then made famous.    Thanks so much for joining me on this Martin!  Check out Martin's fine gallery at https://soundcloud.com/ver2xif

Thanks as always for your time listening, your comments and your shares.

Nothing From Nothing - with Martin Jones

At the beginning, Jamie and I wanted to create a jam session with 3 keyboardists. We started the track with Calaminus at the organ solo, Jamie at the trombone patch and me at the electric piano. Later, Mirko "StringBurner" joined us on the bass, bring us beautiful bass arrangements and an outstanding solo. Thanks to Mirko and thanks to Jamie Rhind & Calaminus  for their amazing keyboards solos.
Check out those great musicians at:
@stringburner, @calaminus, @jamie-rhind

Sharing The Way - feat. Jamie Rhind - Calaminus & StringBurner

The brilliant Dan van den Berg https://soundcloud.com/danarchx and I are thrilled to share a tribute to two of our favorite bands, The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return to Forever.  These seminal bands and their musicians were so important to the merging of rock and jazz, many having come out of Miles Davis' fusion band, and featured virtuoso soloists and creativity that had not been seen before with electric music.  Dan here plays both electric and acoustic guitars, and has added so very much of himself to this modal tune.  The tune features a repeating simple lick, with dueling aggressive synth and guitar solos that these bands pioneered and took to a very high level, with John McLaughlin and Al DiMiola on guitars and Jan Hammer and Chick Corea on keyboards.     Please check out more of Dan's extraordinary music at https://soundcloud.com/danarchx .  

As always, we thank you for your time listening, your comments and your shares.  Enjoy Mahafusionu....

Mahafusionu - with Dan van den Berg / guitars

Excited to release Spring Blossom, an original jazz tune with three of the very finest true jazz players on SC.   I have known Alan for a decade, having worked and played with him here in New York.  He's a world class digital marketing professional, superb and highly educated musician, collector of extraordinary guitars, and created the melody here for Spring Blossom.  Santi-Caballero Mendez is a wonderful multi-instrumentalist from Barcelona, and plays saxophones and flute with both ease and taste.  Santi opens the tune up on alto saxophone.   This is my first collaboration with Manuel, who is from the island of Sardinia, Italy.  Manuel is a superb bass player, and performs here on his fretless 6 string - an instrument I am certain Alan would love to get his hands on:).  Despite being born with a handicap to his right hand, Manuel has overcome this hurdle to create and play remarkable jazz and fusion bass lines and music, in addition to drums.  I'm looking forward to doing some very electric fusion tunes with him too, as his understanding of bass and rhythm is simply stunning.  Straordinario.

Grazi Manuel, gracias Santi-Caballero and thank you Alan.  Proud of what we have created here.  

Please check out and follow these wonderfully creative musicians:
https://soundcloud.com/alanschulman
https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero
https://soundcloud.com/manuel-muzzu

As always, we thank you for your time listening, your comments and your shares, which go so far to spread the word and vision of these wonderful players.


Spring Blossom - with Alan Schulman guitar, Santi-Caballero sax, and Manuel Muzzu bass

Here's a tasty blues shuffle with New York's outstanding guitarist Alan Schulman laying it down.  Thanks for joining me on this one Al.  Alan used to tour and record with Charles Earland, one of the top B3 players in the world.  Hopefully I didn't pull him down too much with this swinger.  And don't forget to check out Al's wonderful playing at https://soundcloud.com/alanschulman 

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



Big Al's Blues - with Alan Schulman / Guitar

The young and highly talented Texas blues guitarist Rey King and I are exited to be sharing our first blues together...Say Hey Rey. Rey is a serious blues player. Real serious. Deep into the blues. You'll hear his great understanding and respect of the masters, and Rey brings his own style and flair as well. Rey has created a great shuffle here and I was so pleased that he asked me to step in with some piano and organ tracks.  Now there are four Kings of the Blues...BB King, Freddie King, Albert King and Rey King.

I know you'll be hearing more from Rey King. Check out his SoundCloud gallery for more of his fine blues playing @rrben29 . Rey King has a lot to say.  Keep listening.

And thanks as always for your time listening, your comments and your shares.  




Say Hey Rey Blues - with Rey King  / guitar

This is a cover of one of my favorite instrumentals, Sco-Mule by Gov't Mule.  It was done as a tribute to John Scofield and they are now playing it together on their current tour.  

We have me on guitars, Jamie on keys, Ned on slide, and Mirko holding down the bass.  Thanks as always to these guys who make this so fun.  This was a really tough tune to arrange and put a backing track together for, and once it was done, the guys gave me easy material to work with.

Thanks for listening - we hope you enjoy :)

Keyboards - Jamie Rhind (@jamie-rhind)
Slide Guitar - Ned Bolle (@mean_old_fireman)
Bass - Mirko Borach (@stringburner)
Guitars - Justin Valente
Drums - Beta Monkey Funk Drums Vol III (@betamonkey)

Sco-Mule (featuring Jamie Rhind, Ned Bolle, and Mirko Borach)

This one is quite a crazy funky fusion track! A great bass player Mirko Borach aka Stringburner(https://soundcloud.com/stringburner )came up with the idea to cover this track by Los Lobotomys, a fusion group that was formed by Steve Lukather in 1989 with some of his friends and talented players, like David Garfield.
Mirko asked Jamie Rhind (https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind) and me to join on this one to complete the blend. Jamie brought his Miles' oriented synths, I brought my loud and funk rhythm guitars. We reworked the original, added different sounds and flavours to it, turning it into "Entanglement".  All of us have one solo spot around the main theme. Quite interesting is the turn of events with a more quiet interlude after the guitar solo, something we just had to keep in from the original.

Anyways! We hope to entertain you with this cover of a great fusion track and band. Do check them out if you don't know them already! Los Lobotomys...

Bass and bass arrangements, initial drum programming by Mirko Borach https://soundcloud.com/stringburner

Keyboards, synths and synth arrangements by Jamie Rhind https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind

Guitars and guitar arrangements, drum programming, mixing and mastering by Dan van den Berg

Drum samples from Amplitube
April 2015




Entanglement (cover) - feat. Mirko Borach | Jamie Rhind | Dan van den Berg

Has been way too long since Ian and I got together so we whipped up a burning tune this weekend that got the blood flowing.  Ian busts out his signature funky wah wah like no one else can and rest is history.  Find a great groove and go with it.  Think you will dig this one.  Today is Herbie Hancock's 75th birthday, so I decided to go with some real funky synth playing here to recognize this genius and influence and also try and keep up with Ian.  Was tough, but pleased with the results.    Have to throw a nod to Billy Cobham's Spectrum with Jan Hammer and the late Tommy Bollin, as shades here of that great album too.  

Let us know what you think.  

Thanks as always for your time listening, your likes and shares.  And if you aren't familiar with the Ian's famous Scottish cooking, you can find him here....https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait



Moving Forward - with Ian Tait / guitar

The "Master of the Stratocaster" Tom Adams  https://soundcloud.com/ytlblues is making his long awaited return tonight!  I'm overjoyed and hoping you are too. 

Tom lives and breathes the blues, and is so pure in his approach to its many styles.  I've been really fortunate to been able to record a lot with Tom over the last year here.  But even when he saddened his thousands of followers by turning off his SoundCloud to take a much needed break from the action, we've communicated behind the scenes and recorded a little, just waiting for the right moment to make his "Second Coming".  Well I guess tonight is the night, and we are pleased to be releasing this slow, grinding blues - textbook stuff for both Tom and me.  I'm busting out both the piano and B3 on this one, and Tom brings his trademark Texas blues sound, which I hope brings some tears to your eyes.

Please welcome Tom back to SoundCloud.  He only has one follower now - me!  So feel free to show him some love with the positive words, follows and shares.  I know he is excited to be back and performing again.  The photo here was taken in beautiful Buzios, Brazil.  The shades of blue here are remarkable.

Thanks as always for your comments, likes and shares.

The Blues is Back in Town - with Tom Adams/guitar....please read

Not only has Tom Adams https://soundcloud.com/ytlblues come home to SoundCloud, but he's bringing the blues with him.   Two days after making his "Second Coming" here, he's thrown out a collab request for others to play with him.  So I've taken the challenge and we've got the "I'm Coming Home Blues".   Tom's playing is real strong here, and just listen to him tear up the third and final verse.  High energy and beautiful blues.  I've added the piano track and my Hammond Organ solos.  

And if you love the blues and great guitar playing and haven't yet hit the follow button for Tom, I know he would love to have you among his quickly expanding group of followers.

Thanks for the invite Tom, and thanks to everyone for your time listening, your likes, comments and shares.  

I'm Coming Home Blues - with Tom Adams / guitar

Let me present you those awesome musicians who have participated at this Reggae Jam!
Bass: Mirko Borach @soundcloud.com/stringburner
Steel drums: Jamie Rhind @soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind
Clarinet: DD John @soundcloud.com/ddjohn
Djembe: Apha Roots @soundcloud.com/alpha-roots
i played the melodica, the organ solo, rhythm guitar, reggae keyboard bubble and drum programming.

Back To Roots with Mirko Borach, Jamie Rhind, DD John and 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.