A fabulous composition and great playing.....Superb production and arrangement

Great composition Jim, Listening to this beautiful Jazz on a Sunday morning in misty Ireland and loving it. Johnny

Higher

All Guitars, Bass, Saxophones, Vocals, Drum programming by Carlo Neve
Written, Recorded and mixed by Carlo Neve
Recorded in Ableton Live 12

Artwork: Picture taken by Carlo Neve in Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, The video installation by Refik Anadol is titled 'in situ'. 


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Hugging Trance Abstraction (More more)

I have been thinking, 
thinking too long
about effects, consequences, 
decisions that I take or won’t                 

It is time to loosen 
the grip of limitations 
Break free from boundaries 
and let possibility lead the way
 
no maps, no clocks, no alarms, no job, no alibis or excuses
no targets, no goal, direction unknown, just go let the muses seduce you

more fun, more jazz, more friends, more art, more guitars, more satisfaction.
more beach, more sun, more wine, some rain, more more, more more attraction
more sax, more beats, more bass, more love, more leads to more dance action
more colour, more beauty,  less duty, more magic, more hugging trance abstraction

More, more, more, more, more, more, more, more

Hugging trance abstraction (More more)

A slightly different mix of a track I have posted already. This one has the drums coming in a little earlier in the song. I'll have this mixed properly and mastered at some point.  Lindsey Kay Scott, my daughter,  is singing the lead on this song.

© 2024 Lyrics & Music By Brenda Doss (BMI) and Lindsey Kay Scott (ASCAP)
Another version with the lyrics are here: 
https://on.soundcloud.com/HlK8AfD7cum2rXkYeX

My Home - Remix

My Home - Remix - ft. Lindsey Kay Scott

This project, “Fables” consists of contemporary jazz compositions. Each song is based off a fable from around the world. Old Dragonbeard comes from the Chinese Fairy Book (published 1921), which is a collections of Chinese fairy tales.  This features Manuel Trabucco on Tenor Sax and bass solo by Doğa Ay. 

Old Dragonbeard

O-Boisterous Hibernation

Made this piece with the winter in mind and a feeling like the movie "The Revenant".

The Frozen Wild

“41st”
LOFI track from our eastern LoFiLab.
Youtube: https://youtu.be/HpebMeMOttk?si=Qf-wQ59laODuP59_
Cover pic: Arpad Kajel www.instagram.com/bergarpi

41st

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Lyrics:
All the way in the past
I failed to raise the phantasm appetite
For the sweet spark specks
left on the pink of the leopard's gums
Here's a name, belongs on a desk
Here's eyes, belong on reruns

I was promised cold laughs and lunch
Victuals preserving the sour strengthening old
Bones found in the concrete, Human? Animal? Dog?
The knowledge for soul soothing succor
Writing messages in the sand dunes for my successor

Lives are made of asking names
Repair the speaking part of me
The jutting gun mount not reeking of gun soil
or anything

Cold highway
Anticipate the vanity
All human efforts have awaiting
Line patterns in the dark, following

Disastrous apparel
Breath through stitching, high nested squirrel
Patient and perceiving
The world's weight on the back of a turtle
I will screen daylight upon awaking
Camera obscura tells the story
that starts me shaking

Devouring roots, tree bark, grass of the plain
Sicken and die rather than surrender to disdain
Conjure the future through an obsidian mirror
See role dwindling down to the secular
Breastbone bears an inscription
indecipherable to the scholars

This fish's flesh will no longer do
No more nights spent in the canoe
Sunlight glints off seiche and capillary
Remission of the correspondent missionary
Grey feels the need to part
inadvertently revealing an ocean of schemes
What foul dust floated in the wake 
of his dreams?
May 28, 2025


Cold Highway

Freedom Flight

Jazzified

Great Love Story is a smooth jazz journey through the heart’s most intimate moments — where melody meets emotion and every note speaks of love. Blending tender saxophone lines, soulful guitars, and gentle rhythms, this album captures the warmth of connection, the calm of closeness, and the beauty of two souls moving in harmony.

Each track feels like a quiet conversation between lovers, reflective, passionate, and timeless. Perfect for evenings, candlelight, or moments of reflection, Great Love Story celebrates the kind of love that never fades ,the one that listens, remembers, and endures.

Look At Us

“There is nothing permanent except change.” – Heraclitus.

The music industry (like many things) has changed greatly since I bought my first 45 record (Green Eyed Lady) at my hometown record shop in 1970. It would be very easy to lament over these changes (and I have.) However, with change comes new opportunities, and thanks to websites/apps like Soundcloud we musicians and composers have the opportunity to to be heard as never before. So thank you Soundcloud and thank you for visiting my page. - Jim Combs

Bio
* Born 1959
* From Southern New Jersey, USA
* Instruments: Guitar (jazz & classical), Bass, Piano, Voice 
* Influential LPs/music (not all and in no specific order): Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire, Miles Davis - Nefertiti & Sketches of Spain, Larry Coryell – Spaces, Weather Report - Heavy Weather, Pat Martino – Consciousness, Return to Forever  - Romantic Warrior,  Chick Corea - The Leprechaun, Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow,  Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures, Santana & McLaughlin - Love Devotion Surrender, ELP – Trilogy, Genesis - Wind and Wuthering, Yes - Close to the Edge, David Sancious - The Bridge, Be Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish, Ambrosia - Somewhere I've Never Traveled, Journey – Journey,  Rite of Spring & Petrushka – Stravinsky, Don Quixote - Richard Strauss, La Mer - Claude Debussy, Pavane pour une infante défunte & Daphnis et Chloé – Ravel, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta - Bartok ,  Andrew Lloyd Webber - Jesus Christ Superstar, Jerry Goldsmith - MacArthur, The Omen, Planet Of The Apes (1968), Isao Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing & The Bermuda Triangle.

Old Dragonbeard

Jim Combs - Composer, Keyboardist and Guitarist

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