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Funky Friday

Layer upon layer of syncopated funk and fusion


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Funked Up

A traditional 12 bar blues with an aggressive solo through a favorite electric guitar patch.  Photo of the The Whailer's drummer from a concert last weekend.  He was terrific!

Electric Blues

We had a blast pulling this together.  Its a simple blues/gospel riff on organ in F, that sets up some wonderful opportunities for heavy jams over the top by Justin and Tom, two of the finest blues players I have ever recorded with.  Tom has the solos with a more treble sound, and Justin boosts his midrange and bass.  Check out their SoundCloud pages if you are not familiar.  They are bad ass, just like this tune.  Let us know what you think!

Bad Ass Blues - with Justin Valente and Tom Adams / guitars

Was looking for a positive weekend jam that just sets the tone to go into the summer....and came up with this fun groove.  Hope you all enjoy a favorite sound of mine.  Jazz meets some down-home Gospel and groove.... Welcome to the summer!   Hammond Eggs baby!

Hammond Eggs

Created this tune to combine elements of rock and fusion, and was looking to set up soloing similar to what John McLaughlin and Jeff Beck did with Jan Hammer.   Norway's superb fusion guitarist, composer and recording artist Ronny Heimdal is featured, and just tears it up.  Into pieces.  Little pieces.  Check out his gallery here on SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/ronny-heimdal

Hope you enjoy our music.  Thanks so much Ronny:)

Busting Out - with Ronny Heimdal / guitar

Thought we'd start the early summer right with the Summertime Blues.   Just a simple slow B3 style organ shuffle groove to get the weekend spirits rising....

Summertime Blues

Another fun one with Scotland's outstanding guitarist and master chef Ian Tait.  Ian once again brings it home with his signature funky solo and rhythm playing that matches so well with my jazz fusion roots.  Sure you'll enjoy this groove and tune I wrote, and be sure to check out Ian's gallery here too.  He cooks!  

https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait

Goin' Home - with Ian Tait / guitar

It's Friday so why not throw up some funk!  There is no one deeper than Herbie Hancock, so I created this funky tune as a tribute to Herbie.  Such an important influence he was across so many genres.  Herbie is the consummate musician.  A fellow native of Chicago, Herbie soloed with the Chicago Symphony at around age 12, started producing his own albums on Blue Note before he was 20, joined the legendary Miles Davis quintet in '64, and brought electronic keyboards with the Rhodes to Miles with the famous Miles Smiles album, then pioneering electronic keyboards in the late 60s with In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew.  Miles had an album Get on Up With It, which is where I took the name from - a common phrase back in the late 60s and 70s..that James Brown of course used with his funky Sex Machine hit.  In addition to his incredible influence with Miles, Herbie left him around '72 to form the Headhunters, which then created what still is the best selling "jazz" album of all time - with Chameleon and so many other classics.  Herbie has meant so much to me that we named our first Beagle Herbie Hancock.  And was Herbie amused when I met him at a party and told him that.  Anyway, here's Get on Up.  I've used a real nice backing track with Swiss guitarist Hanspeter Kruesi https://soundcloud.com/music-pictures to set the groove and then added a number of keyboard and Miles like muted trumpet lines to bring it to life.  Get on Up!

Get On Up - Tribute to Herbie Hancock

Here's a funky groove I did a while back that has lots of layers moving in and out.  The wah Hammond B3 effect is used a lot by organ and keyboard player Jon Medeski in Medeski Martin Wood

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

Space Funk

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

Time for something funky to get the weekend rolling.  This is sure to get those heads bobbing and feet tapping.  Some blues, some funk, some jazz, some soul, and a lot of groove.

Are you feeling groovy?  You should be....

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

Feeling Groovy

Here's a little spin on a classic Soul Jazz tune from 1969, Listen Here.  Written by saxophone player Eddie Harris, this groove caught fire and climbed near the top of the R&B and Hit charts back then and has been performed and recorded by so many since.  Have to credit Les McCann on piano for helping create this sound too!

I'm playing Rhodes, Vibes and B3 on this, as well as the piano head, fills and trills.  Helped a lot by a fine Jamey Abersold track that gives us the grooving piano, bass and drums.  

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, your comments and your shares.

Listen Here - Eddie Harris

Starting the New Year with some grooving Hammond B3 organ.  Such a great classic sound, with a lot of expression.  Hoping everyone had a wonderful holiday season and is ready to start the New Year with positive momentum.  A big thanks again to Jamey Abersold for creating the blues backing track.  I've added the electric piano, tenor sax and Hammond organ to fill it out.

And for those interested, I have just released Barcelona and I Believe, 2 CDs of my own music and a few jazz standards. SoundCloud's Dan van den Berg and Al Schulman wrote the liner notes for them. Here's a link if you are interested in checking them out - itunes.apple.com/us/album/barcelona/id1071251143

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.  Let's make the 2016 the best year yet on SoundCloud.

That New Year's Groove

Want some funk?  This one's all done on keyboards.  Here's Herbiejazz....

And for those interested, I have just released Barcelona and I Believe, 2 CDs of my own music and a few jazz standards. SoundCloud's Dan van den Berg and Al Schulman wrote the liner notes for them. Here's a link if you are interested in checking them out - itunes.apple.com/us/album/barcelona/id1071251143

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

Herbiejazz

The Closer...trying to capture that great live sound of a band's final tune of a concert, where everyone on stage is going all out, the dance floor is filled and the energy is at it's very highest.

And for those interested, I have just released Barcelona and I Believe, 2 CDs of my own music and a few jazz standards. SoundCloud's Dan van den Berg and Al Schulman wrote the liner notes for them. Here's a link if you are interested in checking them out - itunes.apple.com/us/album/barcelona/id1071251143

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



The Closer

It's time for another fun one with Scotland's finest executive chef and SC funk master, Ian Tait https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait.  Ian sent me a track and asked me to do my thing with keyboards.  The tune includes a combination of grooves, with funk, funk rock, a little latin, some disco and a little touch of what I will call Pink Floyd.  All packaged together neatly.    We are sure you will enjoy it...

And for those interested, I have just released Barcelona and I Believe, 2 CDs of my own music and a few jazz standards. SoundCloud's Dan van den Berg and Al Schulman wrote the liner notes for them. Here's a link if you are interested in checking them out - itunes.apple.com/us/album/barcelona/id1071251143

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

Dancing Fool - with Ian Tait / guitar

a 6 hands keyboard funk jam..
with; Jamie Rhind @jamie-rhind
An idea that came out with lot of energy, happy dance feelings and friendship. To share this huge fun with all of you, dear SC friends.
Thank you Jamie.!! 
8-)


BITe Funk (Jamie Rhind & BITs)

Let's hit the Dance Floor!  To quote Dan van den Berg..."Thursday Night Fever from J":)

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

Dance Floor

Sometimes you just wanna dance....
Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Wanna Funk?!

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.