Grateful Dead Inspired

Jams with Justin Valente

BLUES IV

Originals

Composed by Primrose
Produced, mixed and arranged by ProleteR
Taken from "Tribute to the Masters Vol.1" available in free download http://proleter.bandcamp.com/album/tr...
Mastering by Christophe Chapelle (http://www.sinetracks.com/)
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Louis Armstrong - St James Infirmary (ProleteR Tribute)

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.

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

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

Little Buddy

Thought I'd ask the great Justin Valente https://soundcloud.com/justin-valente, my favorite blues rock guitarist on SoundCloud, to join me on this modal blues rock original. I'm such a huge fan of fine guitarists, and ever since I heard Justin's sound here I quickly fell in love with what he is doing.  Was going to create space to join him on the soloing, but in the end wanted to share his full playing.  Justin's laid back blues orientation works so well with this groove, which was written for him in mind.  Reminds me of the opportunities so many of us have had in rehearsal and recording rooms, in basements and (I guess) in garages to stretch out.  The name stands for Justin and Jamie...we both love a great jam.  And if you love the blues and blues rock, be sure to jump onto Justin's page and follow him.  Always a great tune coming your way.  We have now done over 25 tunes together here and each one is a thrill.  Thanks Justin!

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 so much for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

J & J Jam - with Justin Valente / guitar

Third in a series of etudes or studies in jazz and the blues.  Written to a hip hop beat.
Copyright 2016 David B. Heffner

Blues Etude No. 3 (feat. Len Cagle - tenor sax, Dudly Ulysse - drum, Dave - piano, trombone)

Another great guitar solo.

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Darkwater bay by Bluesy Trigger

Sometimes that workload just gets a little heavy.  This is one of those times.

Joining us here is SoundCloud's finest blues rocker Justin Valente and slap bassist extraordinaire Mirko Borach.  Check out their deep galleries with other fine musicians:

Justin Valente:  https://soundcloud.com/justin-valente
Mirko Borach:  https://soundcloud.com/stringburner

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

Heavy Workload - with Justin Valente / guitar and Mirko "Stringburner" Borach / bass

Here is a blues jam with Jamie on keyboards and me on guitar & bass.  Drums are loops from the loop loft.  This track unintentionally sounded like a Jerry Garcia Band blues to me, so I attempted to play it in that style but abandoned that because I don't do well trying to emulate anyone else lol :)  

Thanks as always to Jamie who just kills on this - hope you enjoy :)

Blues for Jerry (featuring Jamie Rhind)

This is a cover of Little Milton's "That's What Love Will Make You Do" with Jamie on keyboards and me on guitar and bass.  We did this as an instrumental and the track is based on the Jerry Garcia Band version.  

Thanks as always to Jamie :)  We hope you enjoy!

That's What Love Will Make You Do (featuring Jamie Rhind)

Haven't been playing or posting much lately, but reposting this because I played with the mix today for fun.

Named because it felt like eternity for me to finish this track because my DAW kept crashing :) This is a little blues jam that started as one thing and ended up as another. It is me on guitars and bass, Jamie on keyboards, and drum loops from Beta Monkey.

Thanks to Jamie as always for being so flexible and easy to work with. He adds a lot to this track and sounds great. We hope you enjoy :)

Eternity Blues (featuring Jamie Rhind)

This is a cover of Jerry Garcia's 'Sugaree' - which is a cool old bluesy tune.  Jamie (@jamie-rhind) is on keyboards, Mirko (@stringburner) is on bass and I am on guitar.  

Thanks to both Jamie & Mirko as always for the collaboration - I always have fun putting these together.

Sugaree featuring Jamie Rhind & Mirko Borach

I put this track together today and realized it sounded like a mashup a few different grateful dead jams - feel like a stranger & shakedown street.  It was probably accidentally on purpose.  So be it :)

Grateful Funk Jam

I am obsessed with my Qtron at the moment and keep making up tracks that utilize it as an excuse to keep messing around.  Playing my new SG on this track over the solo section of 'Shakedown Street' that I put together.  Happy New Year :)

Shakedown Jam

guitar/male vocal=Cris greenwell
piano/bass/drums=Gino Cosentino

this is a song about my spiritual journey after learning to meditate and then having the rare privilege of spending time with an enlightened master.

I've been playing guitar with varying degrees of devotion for about 30 years. I love to play and record every chance I get and have really enjoyed my time on SC so far.  My musical influences are guitar greats such as Hendrix, SRV, Jerry Garcia, Jimmy Page, Duane Allman, Robben Ford, Mike Bloomfield, Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks. I love listening to other people's music and drawing inspiration from their talents.  Most of all I appreciate all of the support from the community here and look forward to spending a lot more time. :)