Jamie Rhind's 2020 Collection

Some new soul jazz with the wonderful Spanish musicians Sam Mendez on flute and Luis Reniu on bass.  Check out and follow these fine players on SC:
https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero
https://soundcloud.com/luis-reniu-marti

Casa Del Soul - Santi-Caballero Mendez / Luis Reniu / Jamie Rhind

It's 2020 and the great Tom Adams and I are back with a serious shuffle, Bad Ass Boy.  Tom's a special friend and one of SoundCloud's greatest.  Check out his beautiful blues guitar work.  We've recorded almost 50 tunes together and this one's a favorite!

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Bad Ass Boy  -  Tom Adams / Jamie Rhind

Jumping in again with Swiss producer and multi instrumentalist Paul Racle, on his grooving Funky Potatoes.  He's got it all on this except for my Hammond.  So much fun.  It's the 16th tune of our growing collection:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/playing-with-paploviante
And check out and follow Paul's extensive and fine galleries of music:
https://soundcloud.com/paul-racle
https://soundcloud.com/paploviante2

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Funky Potatoes - Paul Racle / Jamie Rhind

A fresh track here with U.POET.  U.POET creates and tells the important story of individuality. 

U.POET:  https://soundcloud.com/user-814978679

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Be Yourself - U.POET / Jamie Rhind

What fine flute playing from the wonderful Georg Boehme on our original, Cuban Rum.  Georg lights it up on this traditional latin jazz groove.  What beautiful playing.
Follow his exceptional playing on all woodwind and first class arranging: https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme.  
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Cuban Rum - Georg Boehme / Jamie Rhind

Gotta love Les Thomas' outstanding guitar work on our original, Get the Funk Outta Here.  Each of the guitar lines so tight!  No wonder he's got it going in the Silicon Valley area.  Check out his fine gallery:  https://soundcloud.com/les_thomas

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Get The Funk Outta Here - Les Thomas / Jamie Rhind

Always so much fun to be playing the blues with SC's blues master Tom Adams.  He's burning it up again here and has offered up this track for collaboration.  We've done almost 50 tunes together and this one's a favorite:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/tearing-it-up-with-tom-adams-1
Follow Tom's great blues:  https://soundcloud.com/user-342548892

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A Hard Night's Blues - Tom Adams / Jamie Rhind

It's a mess.

All recorded on keyboards

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Constitutional Crisis

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. 

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Change It Up - Rients Draaisma / Jamie Rhind

Some blues with the exceptional guitarist Tom Adams.  Love what Tom does!

We have so much wonderful music together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/tearing-it-up-with-tom-adams-1

And be sure to follow Tom's gallery of blues inspired goodness:  https://soundcloud.com/user-342548892
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Birthday Blues - Tom Adams / Jamie Rhind

Kindness

Joined by San Jose's finest, Les Thomas on guitars.  Les brings his smooth and slinky West Coast jazzy feel to our original, El Sid.  Follow Les' great sound here: https://soundcloud.com/les_thomas

This one’s capturing the feel of some of the Hammond greats, including Jimmy McGriff, Groove Holmes and Jack McDuff

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El Sid - Les Thomas / Jamie Rhind

Smoothing this one out a little...Count Your Blessings

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Count Your Blessings

Hammond Cheese

Having some fun with Charlie Parker's classic Blues for Alice.  Written in the '40s, it follows a wonderful series of changes structured around the blues.  Combines II/V/I progressions and chromatic movement while going through almost every key.  A real workout. 

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Blues For Alice

Get up and Dance and Groove ..... Martin Jones has one of the great soul voices on SoundCloud, and he joins Tom Adams https://soundcloud.com/user-342548892band and me on our new blues, Boogaloo.  Gotta love Martin's https://soundcloud.com/ver2xif heart and soul, which pours out over recent concerns, and offers some help through it and through music.  Tom's understated here by our standards, complementing Marin and creating such a feel through his superb electric blues.   It's been so great to find Tom here and now have pushed beyond 50 recordings together.  And though a far shorter list, some of my favorites with Martin too.  We hope you enjoy this one.  Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Boogaloo - Martin Jones / Tom Adams / Jamie Rhind

This is a song I wrote about isolation in the present crisis, but, with an internet connection, we are less isolated than we think!
This is a revised and slightly extended version, incorporating the enormous talents of

Georg Boehme - Beautiful baritone sax - https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme
Jamie Rhind - Gorgeous organ - https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind
Bruce Conover - lovely harmonica and background vocals - https://soundcloud.com/bruce-conover
Garddwr Porffor - everything else

I have really enjoyed gathering the musical contributions of these wonderful musicians! I can thoroughly recommend spending some time on their pages listening to their amazing music : ) 

Everybody Has the Blues

You wake in the morning
You have nothing to do
You drink your first coffee of the day

You look at each other
You have nothing to say
But you say something stupid anyway

Everything is different
Everything has changed
All the things you thought you knew were true
We are all so fragile
Holding on to life
Everybody has the blues

When I’m missing my loved ones
I still hold them in my heart
Isolation is such a hard thing to do

When this is all over
We won’t have to be apart
Till then I know that I’m in your heart too

Take each day at a time
Because all these things must pass
It doesn’t do to look too far ahead
No person is an island
We all need someone’s help
Everybody has the blues

Everybody Has The Blues Take 2 (with Georg Boehme, Jamie Rhind And Bruce Conover)

It Can't Get Any Funkier Than This...

Times sure are funky.  Be safe and respect social distancing.

These guys are all so great.  Check out all their music!  Georg is all over that Baritone Sax, Stephan on the grooving guitar and Daniele simply nailing the bass.  Couldn't be more fun for me.

Georg Böhme https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme
Stephan Lipinski https://soundcloud.com/pinner
Daniel Petrocchi. https://soundcloud.com/daniele-petrocchi


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It Can't Get Any Funkier

Italian recording artist Daniele Turani http://www.danieleturani.com joins me here on our original, Constitution.  Love his musical interpretation as his great guitar and whammy bar complements the heavy synth lead, world textures, and trap beats.  The title of the tune speaks to the struggles we are having in the US as our party in charge continues to recklessly tear down the historical centuries old laws upon which our country was framed. 

Check out and follow Daniele's wonderful rock inspired music here:  https://soundcloud.com/danieleturani

And for a playlist of the 10 tunes we have recorded together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/rocking-with-daniele-turani

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Constitution - Daniele Turani / Jamie Rhind

The wonderful Santi-Caballero Mendez and I are back again with a 12/8 jazz original, First Impression.  Sam's playing 3 instruments on this one - tenor sax, soprano sax and flute.  His warm sound and searching lines weave the story so beautifully.

Follow Sam's gorgeous jazz playing:  https://soundcloud.com/santi-caballero
And for a playlist of the 20+ tunes we have recorded 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 Safe

First Impression - Sam Mendez / Jamie 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.