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Here's a beautiful version of the timeless and uplifting Somewhere Over the Rainbow, with the always soulful Scott Nelson adding his gorgeous guitar playing.  If you aren't already following Scott, visit his gallery at https://soundcloud.com/scott-nelson-364333064

Judy Garland made this tune famous in 1939 in the movie The Wizard of Oz, which won the Academy Award for best song that year.

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Somewhere Over The Rainbow - with Scott Nelson / guitar

It is with great sadness that Justin Valente and I are releasing a version of the classic Statesboro Blues just a couple of days following the passing of Gregg Allman, the leader, soulful vocalist and Hammond Organ player of the Allman Bros. Band.  Gregg was legendary, and such an important musical force with the merging of Blues, Rock, Soul, Country and Jazz, keeping the Allman Brothers band together and touring for over 40 years.  Statesboro Blues is one of their most famous recordings, released in 1971 on their seminal At Filmore East live album.  The Allman Bros. have been such an important influence on Justin's great playing, and so he's the perfect guitarist to join me to bring you this classic blues.  Check out Justin's beautiful blues and blues rock playing and recordings at https://soundcloud.com/justin-valente and at https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/jamming-with-justin-valente-1 for our 32 tunes we have recorded together so far.  RIP Gregg.
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Statesboro Blues - a tribute to Gregg Allman - with Justin Valente / guitar

How great to have Tom Adams back and posting some great blues for us to jump in on.   A perfect style for Tom, in the vein of the late Freddie King, and I do my thing with Hammond organ.  Tom has spent so much time in Texas playing serious blues and his deep appreciation comes through loud and clear here in this tribute to the master.

Follow Tom's serious blues:  https://soundcloud.com/better-with-the-blues
And for the vast collection of music we have recorded together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/tearing-it-up-with-tom-adams-1

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Freddie's Funk - with Tom Adams / guitar

We've got the great Daniele Turani and Mirko Borach joining me here on our original funk fusion tune, Ciao Bella.  If you are familiar with the seminal Billy Cobham album Spectrum, with Tommy Bolin, you will enjoy this one.  But for starters, congrats to Daniele, who about a week ago had a beautiful baby boy!  So between diapers, he was able to jump in with us here.  Daniele's a fabulous recording guitarist, with multiple albums out and a wonderful SoundCloud too, including many collaborations with top musicians.  Mirko - aka "Stringburner" - is a heavy, constantly in demand slap funk bass player, who helps set and lock this deep groove.  We've recorded almost 50 tunes together so far - including some monster stuff too with Daniele.  Check out their wonderful galleries of music:
https://soundcloud.com/danieleturani
https://soundcloud.com/stringburner

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Ciao Bella - with Daniele Turani / guitar and Mirko Borach / bass

The great guitarist Stephan Lipinski is as Swanky as it gets here, on our original entitled Swanky Frank's, which was a long standing hot dog institution near us that just closed.  Pinner's superb guitar once again shines here.  He's from just outside of Philadelphia, and those deep Philly roots are apparent in this organ trio format we've laid down- with a little congas thrown in to further drive the groove.    Follow his great extensive gallery:  https://soundcloud.com/pinner
And for a playlist of the 40+ tunes we have recorded together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/smokin-with-stephan-stephan

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Swanky Frank's - with Stephan Lipinski / guitar

Vivek Patel is a monster trumpet player and musician, and I was thrilled when he jumped in with Mirko, me and many other jazz players on a tribute to Miles Davis we recorded several years ago.  The fantastic and always grooving Mirko Borach - aka Stringburner - once again anchors the electric bass here.  Vivek's horn playing is exceptional...his beautiful haunting tone, his inside and outside playing as Miles did.  And Mirko's funky slap bass playing is tight and nasty.  Follow both of these musicians here:

https://soundcloud.com/vivek-patel
https://www.vivekpatelmusic.com
https://soundcloud.com/stringburner
https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/stretching-it-out-with

and for a link to the original track, with so many great friends and players:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/for-miles-1

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For Miles - with Vivek Patel / trumpet and Mirko Borach / bass

Check out Mike Orzek's serious guitar soloing on our new fusion tune Space Invader.  What a sound, and so good to have him back.  When we trade off solos see if you can tell who is who:)). Follow his fine blues rock gallery:  https://soundcloud.com/lando-orz

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Space Invader - Mike Orzek / Jamie Rhind

The warmest voice of all for me is Mayadog - Paolo Pieraccini.  And to hear him scat here brings so much joy, as he fits in like a Gucci leather glove with two of SoundCloud's very finest instrumentalists, Daniele Petrocchi on electric bass and Georg Boehme on flute and bass clarinet.   Paolo sings like a horn here, dancing and setting the tone for the other instruments to follow.  Check out the wonderful music of all these musicians:
https://soundcloud.com/mayadog
https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme
https://soundcloud.com/daniele-petrocchi

The photo is of beautiful and romantic Positano, a few hours South of where Paolo and Daniele live in Italy

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Hold Me Tight - Paolo Pieraccini / Georg Boehme / Daniele Petrocchi / Jamie Rhind

Has been far too long since the exceptional Anthony CHeeZ Chessells and I recorded something together.  He's including me on a fine track on his upcoming album, which I know will be a most exciting collection of music.  On this jazz rock original, CHeeZ soars, using such a cool sound for his guitar mastery.  Anthony is from Melbourne, Australia, which is where the cover shot was taken, at their famous Brighton Beach.  Since we are on opposite hemispheres, our Summer Solstice today - the longest day of the year in our Summer - is the opposite of what Anthony has, with their shortest and winter time.  Follow CHeeZ's fine collection of music here: https://soundcloud.com/anthony-chessells

And for an early look at one of the tracks on the album:  https://soundcloud.com/anthony-chessells/426-am

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Summer Solstice - with Anthony Chessells / guitar

How great to be in the moment with the extraordinary young keyboardist and pianist William Paasche, who joins me on our funky fusion, Viking.  William's from Norway, and for sure has Viking blood in him!  Our family is just back from a week in stunning Iceland, just across the  Norwegian Sea from William.  So the title Viking was an easy one.  Check out William's wonderful synth solo, as he navigates the churning modal sea of rhythm and harmony.  I have the outro synth solo.  Follow William's simply superb tracks and playing here on SC:  https://soundcloud.com/snuppeluppen.
And for a playlist of the recordings we have done together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/progressive-thinking-william

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Viking - William Paasche and Jamie Rhind

Check out Georg Boehme's wonderful Bari Sax and Flute lines and harmony on our new original, Passion Fruit.  George plays about 6 woodwinds but we've restricted him to two today:) What a talented musician, living in Cologne, Germany and leading and arranging and compositing for big bands.  

Follow his great sound and music:  https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme

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Passion Fruit - Georg Boehme / Jamie Rhind

Michael Louis Smith is such a fine guitarist and musician, and he pushes it harmonically and rhythmically here with some serious guitar.   We both live in New Canaan, CT, but he's a fixture in the New York jazz scene.  Check out his music with his band Brooklyn Circle, and other fine cats...https://soundcloud.com/michael-louis-smith http://www.mlsmusic.com

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Little Steps - Michael Louis Smith / Jamie Rhind

Check out the beautiful arrangement of horns that Cologne's Georg Boehme plays here, as he's on flute, 2 clarinets and a bass clarinet.  Georg is a most impressive and creative orchestrator and musician - https://www.georg-boehme.de, and shows his deep knowledge of woodwinds once again. 
The groove is Latin and such a favorite of both of ours.  Follow Georg' music here:  https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme

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Masquerade - Georg Böhme / Jamie Rhind

The Change is here.  It's continues to be such a long road ahead, but we've now seen remarkable progress in upcoming vaccines for COVID and a new president has been elected in the US.  We're feeling a change.
Joining us on this original are the superb guitarists Stephan Lipinski and Daniele Turani, with whom I have created a whole lot of music.  Beautiful players who inspire me and others around the world.  But the key addition on our track is Los Angeles composer, producer and piano and keyboard player extraordinare, Brian McDonald.  He's such an incredible musician, who makes a living creating music for advertising and movies, and reworked the entire original, changing the structure, adding his wonderful piano and synth work, and turning this into something really special.  Follow these exceptional musicians and recording artists:
Brian McDonald:  https://soundcloud.com/brian-mcdonald
http://brianmcdonald.com
Stephan Lipinski:  https://soundcloud.com/pinner
Daniele Turani:  https://soundcloud.com/danieleturani
http://www.danieleturani.com

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Feeling A Change - Stephan Lipinski / Brian McDonald / Daniele Turani / Jamie Rhind

Reach For The Sky is one of those collaborations that brings it all together with great musicians and great friends.  A big project that in total was more than 1GB, this soulful original gives everyone a chance to make statements and a chance for some fine ensemble work too.  Scotland's highly versatile Annie Smart so emotionally adds her voice and harmonies, Germany's Georg Boehme is on Bari Sax on this track, and Spain's Sam Mendez plays the flute.  Both weave in and out between the vocals, and above the wonderful bass of Italy's Daniele Petrocchi.  And playing guitars is Daniele Turani, also of Italy.  Everyone's in such fine form and it all gels so beautifully.  Follow each of these great players and creators.

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Reach For The Sky - G Boehme / S Mendez / D Petrocchi / A Smart / D Turani / J Rhind

Once again Zurich's Paul Racle has created a super funky track and offered it up for collaboration.  I jumped on it, adding some synth work with chords and solos, and latin percussion.  But it's Paul's creation, which features so many sides of his abilities.  I'll start with this ability to create and share with and for others, as he has been doing this for years on SoundCloud, across so many different genres.  I've jumped in on almost 20 of these and it's always a blast because the tracks are so well done.  Paul (Paploviante here on SC) is a multi talented musician, including a very strong bass player, guitarist, drummer and writer.  Check out and follow his SC music:  
https://soundcloud.com/paul-racle
https://soundcloud.com/paploviante2
https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends
And here's a playlist of our tunes together:
https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/playing-with-paploviante

If you're up for adding your thing over the original track, here's a link to Paul's original with a download:  https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/funky-space-paploviante-open-collab

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Funky Space - Paul Racle  /  Jamie Rhind

Some new goodness with the superb Al Schulman on guitar and Mirko Borach on bass.   How nice to have such musicians here joining me on our jazz original, Cosi Bello.  Both these guys so deeply involved in music and on so many levels. You won't find a single person who knows more about fine guitars than Al, and he's so humble too:).  We hope you enjoy the sound...
Be well, be safe and continue to mask up!

Cosi Bello - Al Schulman / Mirko Borach / Jamie Rhind

A modal jazz original - Beyond The Horizon.  Joined again by the wonderful Georg Boehme on bari sax and flute.  Follow Georg's superb playing and arranging:  https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme
And for a playlist of the many tunes we have recorded together: https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/grooving-with-georg-boehme

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Beyond The Horizon -  Georg Boehme / Jamie Rhind

Check out Harry Jacobson's pro guitar work on our funk fusion original, On The Edge.  Harry's a senior faculty member of the National Guitar Workshop, teaching advanced students across many styles of play.  I love what he's done with his rhythm playing, his fills and his superb edgy and bluesy electric guitar soloing - contributing so much to the syncopation, groove and sound here.  Follow Harry's superb SoundCloud recordings and playing:  https://soundcloud.com/harry-jacobson.

On The Edge - Harry Jacobson / Jamie Rhind

We're excited to bring some new hot fusion to SoundCloud.  World View includes so many of my favorite players here, coming together to create a sound that take me back to the wonderful epic days of Weather Report, one of the seminal instrumental bands of our lifetime.  Five simply superb musicians and friends helped bring this original to life - Germany's Mirko "Stringburner" Borach on bass, Spain's Sergio Parraga on percussion, the US's Stephan Lipinski on guitar, Spain's Sam Mendez on tenor sax, and Norway's Will Paasche joining me on keyboards.  And oh can they play.  Stringburner lays down such a fantastic, grooving bass line reminiscent of Jaco, Sergio brings his world percussion sound on Congas, Bongos and Timbale, Stephan Lipinski adds his inside out guitar work, Sam Mendez with his always beautiful tenor sax sound, and Will Paasche with the effortless synth solo.  I've jumped on a classic flanged Fender Rhodes sound that Weather Report's Joe Zawinul used so well to help create the syncopation and add to the churn.  We've captured an almost live sound over this modal fusion, letting the cats stretch out and let loose.  Love what everyone does here on this tribute to Weather Report and to their all world sound.
Follow each of these exceptional players:
Mirko Borach https://soundcloud.com/stringburner
Stephan Lipinski https://soundcloud.com/pinner
Sam Mendez https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero
Will Paasche https://soundcloud.com/snuppeluppen
Sergio Parraga https://soundcloud.com/sergioparraga

We hope you dig this as much as we do.  Be safe, be well and mask up.

And thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.  This one's for you Tyler...

World View - Borach / Lipinski / Mendez / Paasche / Parraga / Rhind

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.