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Victor Wooten - Song For My Father

My take on trumpet badass Takuya Kuroda's Afro Blues. 

Here's the original: https://soundcloud.com/bluenoterecords/takuya-kuroda-afro-blues

Takuya Kuroda - Afro Blues, Eleven Krause Remix

i think the fact that every xmas carol has a key change got to me this season....this has 3 ! 

Sesame Street Blues

Produced by Kimara Sajn

Kim Sajn: drums, percussion, bass, keyboards, tapes, vocals, misc.

Matt Baber: ambient keyboards, tuned percussion and tape imprints on "Terra Firma"

Recorded 2012-2013 at Precognitive Studios, WA

Special thanks: B.Sue Johnson, Ed Dickie, John Hanavan, Alan and Amy Benjamin, Mark Ptak, Brian Burman, Matt Baber, Mike Keneally, Richard Wileman and Tim Falconer

all music composed by Kimara Sajn

all music copyright 2013 Precognitive Music (ASCAP)

Daybreak/Epigram

Spirals Down the Lazy River

10 Afro Blue Cal Tjader

Bill performs This Land, Woodie Guthrie's Better World. 



For What It's Worth

Have You Heard-Live in Tokio 1995

My Favorite Things - john coltrane 1961

Find Me Finding You

Undying Love For Humanity

Bad Asteroid is a Govan original composition; it dates back to his early 1990s demo.

The Aristocrats:

Guitarist: Guthrie Govan;
Bassist: Bryan Beller;
Drummer Marco Minnemann.

The Aristocrats - Bad Asteroid (Guthrie Govan)

Guthrie Govan - Wonderful Slippery Thing

Michael Jackson (Jackson 5) cover of Darling Dear. Taken from the new album entitled '2' on Skyline Recordings 2012
http://www.amazon.co.uk/2-Funkshone/dp/B0073TT9CG


Darling Dear - Funkshone full album version

Guthrie Govan - Fives, by Jahja Telussa.

Live version @ YouTube: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y59YITkBzZM&list=UU89biW5nW7XsK_YKouIfR2g&index=2

Fives (Guthrie Govan)

One of the most formidable fretless electric bassists in the post-Jaco Pastorius era, Texas native and current Barcelona resident Gary Willis joins forces with Catalan keyboardist Albert Bover and Budapest-born drummer Gergo Borlai on this exhilarating take on the electric piano trio. Co-founder (with guitarist Scott Henderson) of the premiere fusion band Tribal Tech and former member of Wayne Shorter’s band, Willis and his highly interactive crew shift deftly from slamming funk (“Old School”) to percolating fusion (“Disconnectivity”) to aggressive swingers (“Change Agent,” ”Move”) while embracing quiet ballads (Paul McCandless’ “Amaryllis,” Milton Nascimento’s evocative “Tarde” or Willis’ aptly-titled “Dream”) with uncommon sensitivity and a lyrical touch. They also turn in expressive interpretations of the Lennon-McCartney classic “Norwegian Wood” and Bill Evans’ “We Will Meet Again.” And the album closes on a poignant note with Willis’ tasty, subtly reharmonized rendition of the Depression era standard “For All We Know,” a tune famously covered by the likes of Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Nina Simone and Donny Hathaway.

Says the great bassist of his impressive sidemen on Retro: “Gergo is an incredible drummer. I had done some playing with him in Budapest, and since he moved to Barcelona Albert and I have been able to work up some nice chemistry as a trio with him.
This new record is about us playing together. It’s not about big productions or anything, it’s just Rhodes, bass and drums. It’s a totally different direction from what I did last time (on 2007’s Actual Fiction, also on Abstract Logix). It shows what can happen when you just make it about the interpretation of the material and how we play together. And for that reason it’s maybe more personal than anything I’ve done before.”

From the modal opener “Change Agent” to the bubbling “Old School” (which recalls the old school funk-fusion of Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters) to the atmospheric “Tarde,” these three kindred spirits demonstrate a remarkable capacity to groove in loose-tight fashion throughout Retro. They collective burn through a labyrinth of chord changes on the uptempo romp “Move,” which is fueled by Willis’ urgent walking bass lines, and settle into on mellow accord on Oregon’s floating “Amaryllis” and a chill 3/4 take on the Beatles’ “Norwegian Wood.” Bover proves to be both a consummate accompanist and accomplished soloist from track to track while Borlai’s crisp, polyrhythmic pulse and supple brushwork fuel the proceedings. Willis’ virtuosic solo contributions here, particularly on “Disconnectivity” and “Move,” show why he is regarded as one of the most outstanding bassists on the scene today.

“I just wanted to feature the fun of playing together and the expression that comes out in this stripped-down setting,” says Willis of his fifth album as a leader overall and second for Abstract Logix. “Whatever direction it’s going, we’re going to try to get into it pretty deep.”  They’ve succeeded in brilliant fashion on Retro.

 

03 Disconnectivity

05 Old School

Wes Montgomery Live in '65, Full Concert


Tracks: I Love Blues; Nica's Dream; Love Affair Rehearsal; The End of a﻿ Love Affair; Impressions; Twisted Blues; Here's That Rainy Day; Jingles; Boy Next Door; Four on Six; Full House; Here's That Rainy Day; Twisted Blues; West Coast Blues.
Personnel: Wes Montgomery: guitar; Pim Jacobs, Harold Mabern, Stan Tracey: piano; Ruud Jacobs, Arthur Harper, Rick Laird: bass; Han Bennink, Jimmy Lovelace, Jackie Douga
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