Smooth Jazz ¤ The Best - 2

Live Rendition of Beautiful Surprise. One of the most beautiful songs ever written. 

@GeorgeLovett Beautiful Surprise (#IndiaArie Cover)

Gabriel Mark Hasselbach - Kissed By The Sun

The Best Of Richard Elliot

Just Me And You

Three Wishes

Pipo's Song

Perfect Moment

Autumn Day (Album Version)

Face To Face

Brazilia

Solo and Rhythm guitars - Russ Hewitt
Rhythm and Harmony guitars - Alfredo Caceres
Drums - "Wally" Walfredo Reyes Jr.
Percussion - Rafael Padilla
Bass - Bob Parr
Guitar - Larry Carlton on 'North of Home'
Guitar - Ardeshir Farah on 'Persian Sky'

written by Russ Hewitt

'Presidio' from "Cielo Nocturno"

Solo and Rhythm guitars - Russ Hewitt
Rhythm and Harmony guitars - Alfredo Caceres
Drums - "Wally" Walfredo Reyes Jr.
Percussion - Rafael Padilla
Bass - Bob Parr
Guitar - Larry Carlton on 'North of Home'
Guitar - Ardeshir Farah on 'Persian Sky'

written by Russ Hewitt



Cielo Nocturno

'North of Home' f/Larry Carlton from "Cielo Nocturno"

Solo and Rhythm guitars - Russ Hewitt
Rhythm and Harmony guitars - Alfredo Caceres
Drums - "Wally" Walfredo Reyes Jr.
Percussion - Rafael Padilla
Bass - Bob Parr
Guitar - Larry Carlton on 'North of Home'
Guitar - Ardeshir Farah on 'Persian Sky'

written by Russ Hewitt


'Samba Sao Paulo' from "Cielo Nocturno"

Battles

Battles (Gold Medal Mix)

Taken from my debut EP 'Wildfire'.
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released by @boogieangst

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Wildfire

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Blair Bryant’s debut recording GOLD shows off his bass-driven melodies... this musical prodigy is sure to be a household name in contemporary jazz. Powerful!  www.blairbryantmusic.net

Commercial Written by Sandy Shore; Voiced & Produced by Dave DeAndrea for SmoothJazz.com Global, 2016.

Gold

Blair Bryant : Gold

Limitless

You're Mine

Welcome to our latest collaboration, and please read the description for all the details of this song.

John’s motivation to compose this song:
We all go through rough times in our life’s, and sometimes it’s hard to share it with others, because you do not want to cause other people pain and suffering too, but at the same time, it makes you lonely and sad.
Although (doing so) you mean well, the people that love you, has no idea what is going on with you, and they start worrying for you even more, and things will just get worse for yourself and them.
Eventually all the pain comes out, and you get nightmares and even cry during your sleep because of it.
When you look at your beloved one who’s crying and you have no idea what is causing this inner pain, that’s what causing my pain feeling powerless to do anything to help and to comfort my beloved one, and taking away those pain and sorrows.
With this song I tried to express my pain and thoughts, and searching for answers and solutions to help out besides to hug and comfort my beloved one. 
I experienced this so deeply, and I remember how hard it was to put these thoughts and feelings on music.
I know for myself: I am strong enough to fight each battle, and I can handle all troubles that comes on my path, but I can’t handle and fight (for you) against “The Tears in your Eyes”.
When you wake up, and see that your beloved one is crying (even in her sleep), believe me, they hurt me more then anything else in Life, and it tears you apart from deep inside too.
I may not be so good in words, but I hope you can hear what I tried to express in this piece, as I know many people in the world are suffering from the same troubles I described above, I hope this piece may bring you comfort as well, I tried to express myself as I would towards my beloved one. 

Technical Inside of John and Oliver’s version of “Tears in Your Eyes”:
When I arrived in Bremen, I told Oliver the story behind this song, he also shared a similar experience, and he wanted to learn to express himself with music and at the same time learning to use other instruments (not only with piano), and at the same time get “John’s” weird accords and tempo changes right LOL.
We took a version of my composition done by  “Quenya Projects” (which was never released yet) and we started working on the flutes (that was the hardest part), we created an extra piano line and harmonies with string ensembles which would fit to the flutes and piano, and we could merge with my existing instruments.
Once back in the studio Holland, I started to adjust all recorded midis so they would really sound like real instruments, and started to multilayer all tracks all over again into this mix / version.
We hope you all will enjoy it as much as we did making it, and this piece will bring you comfort too.    

You might want the hear the extended and single version as well):
Originally I merged “The Tears in your Eyes” together with another song of mine "No Secrets" into the extended version I released earlier, you can hear: https://soundcloud.com/onevision-crossworlds/john-styles-tears-in-your-eyes , I merged them together because to me these two songs had the questions and answers, I just want you all to enjoy this beauty, although it caused me a lot of tears while making it, and because of that I really think I gave it my very best shot.
This version has answers or at least that's what I tried to put into it.
Then I received a request to extract both songs and release them separately, 1 of them was released as the single version: https://soundcloud.com/john-styles-projects/john-styles-the-tears-in-your

Composer and arrangements: John Styles
Piano 1: Oliver Papke  Piano 2: John Styles
Flutes & String ensemble: John Styles & Oliver Papke
All other instruments: John Styles
Producer: John Styles  
We hope you all enjoy this song, and your feedback, comments, likes and critics are welcome as always.

Peace and respect to all, John and Oliver

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