Oh yeah Rachel..you nailed it really!👏👏❤️👋

Nicely done. Taking on Jaco is no small challenge. Love your tone.

Rachel, you needn't be a master of every single instrument. WOW !

Well done! That must have taken some time to learn. :-)

Pick any instrument from a traditional rock/pop emsemble and chances are this amazing young woman can play it.  She also sings, arranges, engineers and produces all aspects of her work.  Her tastes are eccletic, to say the least and the degree of technical accumen necessary to cover her choices of artists would be daunting even for most older and more experienced musicians.  For me personally, discovering Ms. Flowers has been so much more than discovering a talented and accomplished new musician.  It has been one of a handful of truly rare, uplifting, transformative and spiritual experiences of my life.  Honestly, when dicussing Ms. flowers and her body of work, words fail to serve and as Annie Lenox sang, "language is leaving me in silence."

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Tenderly (Version By Bill Evans)

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Toccata And Fugue in D Minor by J. S. Bach, arrangement by Leopold Stokowski. Multi-tracked in Sonar, each track was played live using the Vienna Symphonic Library, no sequencing, no quantizing, and with no click track. Rachel learned this piece from listening to the soundtrack of the movie "Fantasia" made in 1940. Hope you enjoy it. Rachel had a blast recording this!

Toccata And Fugue In D Minor - J. S. Bach

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This is my cover of Teen Town by Weather Report composed by Jaco Pastorius, from the album Heavy Weather. I didn't use any click track. The drums were all played live, starting with the basic rhythm track, then I added the drum hits. I later made the two drum tracks separately in mono, so I could control the reverb for the drum hits. The synth sounds were a combination of the Nord piano 2 88 and Yamaha m06. The Rhodes piano was done on the Korg SV 88, and I played real fretless bass. For the doubling unison spots, I recorded them separately without hearing the other bass track, so it would make it easier to concentrate on the pitches. I sang the soprano saxophone parts also through a Lewitt MTP540 microphone. The conga drums were done on the Yamaha m06. ~ Rachel Flowers

Teen Town - Weather Report (cover)

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Portrait of Tracy is a composition for solo fretless bass by Jaco Pastorius. It is from his self titled first solo album, released in 1976, before he joined Weather Report.

Portrait Of Tracy - Jaco Pastorius (cover)

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Here's my new Jaco cover!

I doubled the bass in two tracks. The only parts that are not live are the parts with thirds and sixths harmonies after the first fast part, but the rest was played all together.

The drums were from Session Drummer, the pianos are the Nord Piano 2 HA88. The rest is fretless bass.

This is from Jaco's self-titled album.

Continuum - Jaco Pastorius (cover)

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This is my cover of the great Wayne Shorter composition, Elegant People from the album Black Market by Weather Report. The saxophone is played on my Roli Seaboard Grand from a program called SWAM Sample Modeling. The strings are East West Hollywood Strings, Diamond Edition. The rest of the orchestra is the Vienna Symphonic Library. The percussion is from Garritan Jazz and Big Band. The piano is my Nord 88, the new Silver Grand sample. I played real fretless bass. The drums are from Session Drummer 3 - Legends Kit 2.

I listened to a lot of different versions and was interested in orchestrating the piece. This is what I came up with.

Elegant People - Weather Report (cover)

Impression E-minor

You can now purchase Rachel's solo albums "Bigger on the Inside" (2021), "Going Somewhere" (2018), and "Listen" (2016) along with "3x2," Rachel's collaboration EP with Michael Sadler of Saga!

From the first moment she touched the piano, Rachel Flowers has been consumed by music. Like a sponge she has spent her life absorbing every kind of music she encounters. This channel is her outlet where she gets to play, creating covers of the music she loves, and sharing that music with the world.

Now you can also hear Rachel's original music! Just visit shop.rachelflowersmusic.com

Portrait Of Tracy - Jaco Pastorius (cover)

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