BUY JAMIE'S MUSIC

Funk Collection

Love finding great musicians from around the world here on SoundCloud and have developed these tunes with superb blues guitar players Joe Bongiovanni, Justin Valente, Tom Adams,  fusion guitarists and composers Ronny Heimdal and Benny Sutton, lyrical guitarist and prolific composer Igor Rajsa, wonderful electric bassist and composer Daniel Petrocchi, and jazz alto saxophone player, composer and recording artist Matt Criscuolo.    Such a treat to record with each of these fine musicians.  Hope you enjoy the music.  Check out each of their galleries for more of their playing.  

Collaborations

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July Grooves

Recent Collaborations - Burning it Up With Friends

It has been a pure pleasure to play and record with the super talented Justin Valente @justin-valente. Justin lives and breathes guitar and has such a deep and wonderful understanding of blues, blues history, and its evolution and influence in rock. And Justin uses that to turn out some of the consistently baddest guitar playing on SoundCloud. Capital B. Almost every day. So impressive.

When I found him here on SC I was instantly attracted to both his sound and conception. Somewhere that I would love to be if I played the electric guitar. A ton of electricity in his playing, raw energy, and a great understanding of navigating through the changes. If you haven't already, click to go to Justin's SC gallery and follow him. He is a serious student, and makes everything we do sound better.

Here's a collection of about 10 tunes we have recorded together....some classic tunes as well as originals. Very proud of these recordings.

Thanks Justin. So many of you have liked, commented and often shared our music - thanks for such passion, and for helping keep the blues inspired music here on SC alive and thriving. Several other of my favorite musicians here on SoundCloud are on these recordings as well - Tom Adams, Joe Bongiovanni, Ian Tait and Johnny Pugh.

To quote Bob Marley, "We're Jammin...."

@justin-valente
@tytlblues
@joe-bongiovanni
@ian-tait
@johnny-pugh


Jamming with Justin Valente

Always a pleasure to be jamming with Scotland's Ian Tait   https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait, one of my favorite 3 Scottish musicians - only behind Ian Anderson and Jack Bruce (sorry Ian). You'll recognize Ian's signature funky guitar playing, wicked sense of humor, outstanding wild graphics and great taste. Ian loves his wah wah pedal, combining it to create so many infectious compositions and grooves.

In fact, as a serious chef, Ian is also known for his tasty cooking. Enjoy these tracks we have done together. And give em a listen if you already have. They get better with age, like the fine wine that pairs with Ian's cooking....

Ian is always up for a great jam - often into the wee hours of the night - and we've also recorded together here with two other outstanding SC guitarists and friends - Tom Adams and Justin Valente

Thanks Ian

https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait
https://soundcloud.com/tytlblues
https://soundcloud.com/search?q=justin%20valente

Cooking with Ian Tait

It's always a pleasure to be working with high flying Texas bluesman Tom Adams @tytlblues . Tom is so well known here on SoundCloud because of his ability to play and record blues classics and originals, his prolific work, his fine collaborations with serious musicians, and his spirit in following and sharing other's best music. Almost every day, his followers are treated to pure, authentic blues.  Tom knows the blues, he lives the blues, and he shares the blues.  Damn right he's got the Blues!

I've been fortunate to have played and recorded with Tom, and have organized our recordings together here.   And several other of my very favorite SC guitarists are featured on some of these recordings as well -- Justin Valente and Ian Tait.  Check out all their galleries.  Wonderful musicians.

Thanks for all the outstanding music guys!  Here's to a lot more


https://soundcloud.com/tytlblues
https://soundcloud.com/justin-valente
https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait


Tearing It Up With Tom Adams

enjoy this spring shuffle with Tom Adams.  One of the very finest guitarists on SoundCloud, Tom is the consummate blues axeman.  Love his playing and hope you enjoy too. This is what we are feeling after a three day Memorial Day weekend.  Enjoy....

Post Holiday Blues - With Tom Adams / guitar

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

What fun pulling this together with three serious musicians.  You probably know Joe Bongiovanni and Justin Valente's awesome blues oriented guitars, and they stretch out here on this funk / soul / fusion groove.  Burning it up they are.  And joining us on Alto Sax is recording artist Matt Criscuolo.  Look for him at mattcriscuolo.com.  These guys just play their ass off here.  Started with an internet fusion loop, I added many keyboard lines to funk it up to the max, and we added these pros.  Joe takes the opening solos for the first four minutes, Justin follows, and we finish with all the guys trading off.  So much energy.  Positive energy here.  Put this on and relax.  Hope you enjoy the entire tune - an extended play jam.  Damn this is burning.... Thanks for listening.  The guys would love your thoughts....

Funk And Burn - With Joe Bongiovanni and Justin Valente guitars and Matt Criscuolo alto sax

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

A funky blues with an extended trombone synth solo over the top.

No Bone Blues

A big band sound with full horn section and jazz piano solo.  


Fall Colors

Capturing the beauty of a gorgeous East Hampton summer day

Hamptons Swing

How special for me to have been a part of this collaboration with the young and extraordinary Dutch composer/guitarist/keyboard player Rients Draaisma.  While my hope was to create a forum for a call and response type solo between my synth and Rients' soaring creative guitar ala John McLaughlin and Jan Hammer in the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Rients immediately turned it up several levels to create what we have here.   The head came from a synth solo line of mine that was then adjusted by Rients to meet the intricate and changing meter.  Everything else Rients did - the composition, the most intricate drum tracks, and his very deep soloing.  All  Overnight.  Wow.

We both hope you enjoy The End of The Circle, and would love your feedback.  Please check out Rients' Soundcloud compositions and performances, his website and his wonderful videos on YouTube...his playing and writing is going to change music....

The End of The Circle - with Rients Draaisma / guitar

In addition to being a fine guitar player with a tremendous sense of humor, Ian Tait cooks.  Both on his Strat and in the kitchen.  He's a very fine professional chef from Scotland whose specialty is pastries.   Not blowing anything up your Kilt when I say fine.  So when we put this together, Cooking with Ian seemed to be the perfect title.  Loved working together with him....you'll really enjoy his funky and tight playing.   Thanks so much Ian...great fun

https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait

Cooking With Ian - with Ian Tait / guitar

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

Bringing a soulful sound to SoundCloud with this one.  Lifetime recording artist, soul vocalist, saxophone and harmonica player Johnny Pugh sits in with blues guitarist extraordinaire Justin Valente and me on an emotional Ray Charles type slow jam.  What a wonderful surprise to hear Johnny's beautiful harp lines, which fit perfectly with Justin's raw electric blues energy.  Real proud of this one, as it captures the heart and spirit of why we all love SoundCloud.   Check out Johnny and Justin's music here - you will love their playing.  Thanks for listening.

Soul Brothers - with Justin Valente guitar and Johnny Pugh blues harp and horns

Can't take too much credit for this one, but loved the funky backing track and added an extended organ solo over the top.  Has a great groove and thought I'd have some fun with it.  Enjoy!

Fresh Funk

So much fun to have musicians all over the world play together, and this jam includes three of my very favorite guitarists and musicians here on SoundCloud...Tom Adams, Ian Tait and Justin Valente.  These guys can all light up a stage, and graciously came together for this funky collaboration.  If you aren't following them all you should be - you'll be getting fresh tracks almost every day from each.  Tom and Justin are both from the US (Austin and NYC), and Ian hails from Edinburgh, Scotland.   For our Summer Funk Jam here, we started with a very funky internet backing track, allowing everyone to dig in and do their thing.  You'll recognize each of the guys' styles if you've been listening to their galleries, and together it makes for some serious Summer Funk.  Thanks guys for all the ongoing support - each of you help bring out the best in SoundCloud.  Make that SoundCloud FUNk.  Let us know what you think - it is always inspiring to get feedback on our playing:

guitar: Tom Adams @tom-adams
guitar:  Ian Tait @ian-tait
guitar:  Justin Valente @justin-valente
organ:  Jamie Rhind @jamie-rhind


Summer Fun(k) Jam - collab with Tom Adams, Ian Tait and Justin Valente / guitars

A swinging shuffle with the outstanding Justin Valente on electric guitar.  Justin developed this 12 bar blues after listening to one of his favorite bands, Gov't Mule.  If you are into serious blues and electric guitar, you gotta check out more of New Jersey's own Justin Valente.  He's all over SoundCloud and loves to create and share new music almost every day.  Gotta love his complete understanding of how to play some serious blues - Gov't Mule style here!  Thanks as always for taking the time to listen and to comment.  Means a lot.

https://soundcloud.com/justin-valente

guitar and bass: Justin Valente
organ: Jamie Rhind (@jamie-rhind)
drums: Terrence Higgins Greasy Grooves from Loop Loft (@thelooploft)


Mule's Blues - with Justin Valente / guitar

Created this Latin Jazz Rock tune with a very percussive latin groove over classic jazz changes.  Justin as always does a fantastic job with the guitar, helping anchor the mood while developing a fine solo to complement the salsa groove.  Put on your dancing shoes...

https://soundcloud.com/justin-valente

Latin Dancer - with Justin Valente / guitar

This track is a cover of Freddie King's Palace of the King.  It was great fun to put all of this together and was a big challenge because we have an international cast (US, Netherlands and Spain), so many tracks to mix, and this is a really ambitious song.  I am happy with the outcome and really grateful for the wonderful teamwork on this.  Thanks to Johnny, Jamie and Debbie - a better group of people to work with you will not find :)

Cast of characters:
Johnny Pugh - lead vocals and horns (@johnny-pugh)
Jamie Rhind - organ and piano (@jamie-rhind)
Debbie Deijkers(bigmamaDee) - background vocals (@thingsfromthepast)
Justin Valente - guitars and bass (@justin-valente)
Beta Monkey Groove Rock - Drums (@beta-monkey)

Palace Of The King (Freddie King cover featuring Johnny Pugh, Jamie Rhind and Debbie Deijkers)

It's back to school time for so many and that has students singing the blues! Thought we'd commemorate this time of the year with an electric blues, and asked the superb Tom Adams https://soundcloud.com/tytlblues to join me.   Tom knows I love funk, and when this backing track with my electric guitar solo keyboard patch landed in his email, was probably a little funkier and more electric than his norm.  But damn, check out what he's done to challenge me.  Listening as always, he throws back some serious pitch bends, distortion, and mimics beautifully what I am doing on the synthesizer.  I have the first solo, Tom follows and we're off to the races together.  Thanks for the fun Tom....always a pleasure.

We hope you enjoy this.  And check out Tom's extensive and inspiring gallery at https://soundcloud.com/tytlblues

Back To School Blues - with Tom Adams / guitar

Tom and I came together here to record one of my very favorite Rock tunes, Feeling Alright.  Originally written by Dave Mason and performed by Traffic, the tune was picked up by the great Joe Cocker, performed at Woodstock, and the rest is history.  A great I-IV groove that just brings home emotion.  Tom had recorded this without piano and I immediately jumped in to ask if I could add the defining part (at least for me ).  No vocals here but I threw in the trombone melody to help bring back the proper vibe.  Hopefully the passion comes through with our recording.  Tom really pushes his extended guitar jam so be sure to listen:)  If you don't know Tom or his outstanding guitar playing, check him out at https://soundcloud.com/tytlblues So many here do for great reason.  Always love performing with Tom and this one is extra special for me.  And that's our son Cameron on the Paddle Board doing handstands:).  He's Feeling Alright too!



Feeling Alright - with Tom Adams / guitar

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

When Scotland's finest SoundCloud guitarist Ian Tait asked me if I'd Fancy It?, I had to turn him down. But then I realized he was asking me only to join him on this original blues rocker of his.  Here's some serious boogie'n blues rock...

Check out Ian's outstanding SC gallery at @ian-tait - he's got something in there for everyone - a lot of really great playing - and all with a sense of humor.

We've already recorded 14 tunes together over the past year and a half - some of my very favorites: soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/cooking-with-ian-tait-1

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

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




Fancy It?  - with Ian Tait / guitar

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

Time for some more funk.  A special thanks to the very kind and knowledgable G-Deed, who jumped in with final sound editing and compression, creating a better overall sound and balance:).  He loves great funk and soul and groove, so check out his gallery here....https://soundcloud.com/g-deed

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

I Don't Funk On The First Date

The funkiest guitar player on SoundCloud is BACK, with this grooving original, Can't Get Enough Of You.  Scotland's finest has teamed up with Germany's super funky slap bass marvel Mirko "Stringburner" Borach, creating what I can only say reminds me of one of the all time greatest tunes, Mountain's Mississippi Queen.  But Mountain never had a rhythm section playing with this much funk!  Ian's letting me do my thing on keyboards, and you can hear me soloing in the right channel, trying to hold my own over this nasty rocking blues.

Follow these guys for some of the best music going: 
https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait
https://soundcloud.com/stringburner

And for our many tracks together:
https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/cooking-with-ian-tait-1
https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/stretching-it-out-with

We thank you for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

Can't Get Enough Of You - with Ian Tait / guitar and Mirko "Stringburner" Borach / bass

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.