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WestcoastAOR Instrumental by westcoast-music.com

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rock tes

Brotherhood

Song for Dad

Undercurrent

Skating In Central Park

New 7inch analog record "85/85" is released!!!
http://www.sonerecords.com/?pid=81137152
http://www.jetsetrecords.net/494908





akari ga ochitara/あかりが落ちたら(demo)

Gentle Touch

Confirmation

Body & Soul (feat. Barry Harris)

The Gospel?

Job 24-28 (Why God Doesn't Judge Evil People; Job and His Integrity)

ザサウンドオブシークレットマインド170

A unique klub banga!!!!!!!!!!!! Coogi from my head to toe is wat tha name is!!!!!!!

Head To Toe[1]

Herbie Hancock's funk classic from the Jazz For Japan CD

Watermelon Man ft. Marcus Miller, Ndugu Chancler, Clarence McDonald, Lee Ritenour and Kenny G.

This track is by Lee Ritenour (guitar) and Dave Grusin (keys) and is a nicely melodic slice of smooth jazz in a pop vein. It is from their harlequin album

Early AM Attitude ---- Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin

Let It Come To You

Not Ready Yet (Album Version)

Manu Katché

Loving You

Nights Of Ballads & Blues

We'll Be Together Again

Green Guitar Blues / Café Pierre Trio

The Summer Knows

Held

Dissolve

"The Great Outdoors" - Lyircs

I make a motion to stop this eating
I second that let’s go outside for the feeding
For the feeling of the wind upon our necks
And for the great outdoors we’ll run in seconds flat

I say why don’t we wait ‘til after dinner
You say it’s best we shouldn’t wait
For the clouds are settling down and they will mark our temper
And for the great outdoors we’ll run in seconds flat

I say let’s go down to the teddy bear picnic
You say let’s start the car and drive
My head hangs out the window like a dog in a station
The road looks far ahead, and I feel so alive 

My heart is pounding to the waves of the ocean
My hair is rustling in the wind
With the leaves, and birds, my fragmented soul is taken
And for the great outdoors we’ll run in seconds flat

CHORUS:

We need to realize
Our attachment to this planet
So far as I can tell
We’re her creatures, it’s fantastic
It’s alright to live inside a dream
In the great outdoors and wholeness of our minds
For harmony and sync
With the great outdoors for the rest of our lives

We’ll walk the path of this enchanted forest
Around the lake and hold our lovers tight
Let fireflies and broken kites guide us in the starry night
Now solstice closed her eyes, the day is gone

When I got home I dreamt the dream of a free bird
To be a lover, to love someone that night
But you said, “You've got your friends, so don't you pretend 
  we won't be there 'til the very end”
Now grab my running heart, we'll soar the sky

And then it hits, we’re getting old, like seasons’ change, it’s getting cold
We’re stuck inside a rural place downtown
And trapped, we sit in monoliths, where kids just trying to exist
Look down on the world from windows perched above

So—Let’s travel back until the time of our parents
Hell—let’s make some time of our own
We’ll open up this tickle trunk of great adventure
We’ll set off into the vast unknown

(CHORUS)

I’m in the moonlight of this silver forest
While in the darkness of the fire
I turn my head up to the constellations
Cosmos here are my desires

I want a place where there’s tranquility
With peace on Earth and peace of mind
To catch my soul and trap my body
In the great outdoors, I roam and seek to find

I make a motion to stop this eating
(And for the great outdoors)
I second that let’s go outside for the feeding
(And for the great outdoors)
I say let’s go down to the teddy bear picnic
(And for the great outdoors)
I say why can’t it wait ‘til after dinner
(And for the great outdoors)
My heart is pounding to the waves of the ocean
(And for the great outdoors)
I’ll walk the path of this enchanted forest
(And for the great outdoors)
Let’s travel back until the time of our parents
(And for the great outdoors)
Hell—let’s make some time of our own

And for the great outdoors we’ll run in seconds flat

The Great Outdoors (Demo)

Five

Black Radio 2

Let It Ride (feat. Norah Jones)

Frenzy

Music IS

Pretty Stars

Love Stone

Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies

Three Waves

Never Let Me Go

From Allison Miller & Carmen Staaf's "Science Fair" (9/21/18) on Sunnyside Records.

Scientists spend long hours investigating their passions, delving into the complex details of their research in pursuit of new knowledge. In a science fair, they demonstrate their findings, making them accessible and even fun. As a combustion reaction generates heat and light, a similar reaction happens between sound and movement. With the wonder of kids making a baking soda volcano, drummer Allison Miller and pianist Carmen Staaf combine bold musical concepts, tremendous collaborators, and a passion to challenge and explore into an eruption of energy on their fantastic new recording, Science Fair.

Miller is well-known in the jazz and pop worlds, having backed Natalie Merchant and Ani DiFranco, then going on to lead her own celebrated jazz ensembles, including Boom Tic Boom. Miller’s collaboration with Staaf began a few years ago. When Miller needed a piano substitute for the Reykjavik Jazz Festival in 2015, she called her friend, bassist Todd Sickafoose. He suggested Staaf, who had just finished her time at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, and had recently impressed Sickafoose on a performance at the Blue Whale in Los Angeles.

The connection was made and a three-show trial by fire ensued. The connection between the two musicians was immediate. They found a kindred spirit in each other, as their musical orientations are straight ahead, rhythmically minded, and open to suggestion. The most important element was the level of trust they quickly developed, thus freeing them to tap into their creativity more fully and spur their musical dialog. 

Miller and Staaf began to meet regularly. Their rehearsals led to collaborations in new ensemble configurations and with dancers. Dance and music for dance has been important for each of them. Miller grew up in a family enamored with movement and immersed herself in the Washington, DC youth dance scene. She went on to become musical director for a number of choreographers. Though not a dancer herself, Staaf has been drawn to music made for dancing, including Afro-Cuban, salsa, West African, and Indian vocal percussive music. 

Miller and Staaf’s experiments began to take shape as a recording project. They both began to bring tunes to their weekly rehearsals, and tinkered with arrangements and different ensemble lineups. They eventually picked bassist Matt Penman to round out their core trio. He proved to be of a similar mindset, fun-loving and open-minded, not to mention a highly swinging accompanist. For a number of pieces, the trio is augmented by one or two horns, namely the gifted trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and the wonderful saxophonist Dayna Stephens. 

Assembling all of the pieces for Science Fair was akin to a science experiment. Miller and Staaf even had their own “mad scientist” in producer Ben Goldberg, who helped put the final pieces together. The two leaders wanted to insure that the compositions would be diverse yet balanced; there are four compositions from each composer, though they worked together to shape the final arrangements. Similarly, the leaders wanted to have a diverse ensemble representing a cosmopolitan mix of genders and races, but, most importantly, all sharing a passion for self and group expression.

Science Fair

Allison Miller & Carmen Staaf - MLW

Albatross

An all-analog recording recorded and Mixed at Mighty Toad Studio. Digital Master at The Showplace by Ben Elliot. Vinyl Master at Masterdisc.
Produced by Craig Dreyer and Elijah Tucker

Amos And Boris-Elijah Tucker-Analog Recording-Jazz Rock

Essential Jazz Ballads, Vol. 2

Suite: April 2020

Look for the Silver Lining

on the tender spot of every calloused moment

Dreamcatcher

Low & Slow

For Lee Ritenour, there aren’t many ‘firsts’ left to achieve. During his dazzling five-decade career, the fabled LA guitarist has taken his music to the outer limits, alighting on every genre and occupying every position in the rock ‘n’ roll firmament. He’s been an enfant terrible of ’70s fusion, a crossover star of the ’80s pop chart, an honorary exponent of Brazilian jazz, and the fingers behind ’90s supergroup, Fourplay. Ritenour’s accolades include: 45 albums,16 Grammy nominations, Alumnus of the year at USC, Los Angeles’ Jazz Society Honoree (2019), plus thousands of sessions with legends such as Frank Sinatra, Pink Floyd, B.B. King, Tony Bennett, among others.