Name: Mainsail To Port by Dan Del Negro in Smooth Jazz - Instrumental - Part 1
Duration: 5 min 56 s
Description: A progression of grooves, starting off with straight-ahead jazz (swing, ballad, bebop), moving into Latin jazz (salsa, samba), and ending up with contemporary jazz (R&B, hiphop, rock, reggae). Featuring piano, organ, electric piano, synth, and a tune with vocal head and scatting. Enjoy!

Smooth Jazz - Instrumental - Part 1

Space-Time

Sun Princess

Midnight Sun

Invincible

Greg Manning - Sunrise Boulevard

A progression of grooves, starting off with straight-ahead jazz (swing, ballad, bebop), moving into Latin jazz (salsa, samba), and ending up with contemporary jazz (R&B, hiphop, rock, reggae). Featuring piano, organ, electric piano, synth, and a tune with vocal head and scatting. Enjoy!

Mainsail To Port

It's Time to Travel

Paolo Fresu -Eterninna-, One Shot Not 2011-[www flv2mp3 com]

It’s called “The Closer We Get,” and I’m proud to say I wrote this song with the fantastic saxophonist/producer Darren Rahn, who has really become a big star in his own right. Darren and I wrote this tune to be the kind of song you put on and hopefully, it just takes you away…without a care in the world. It’s a romantic song for sure, but the inspiration is also firmly rooted in the quarantine, in that we’ve all had to find new ways to be close to the ones we love in this very surreal time. The pandemic has shown us you don’t really need to be WITH someone to feel close to them.

A New Day

02 The Closer We Get

From the 2009 album, "Plays Tribute to Oscar Peterson" on Resonance Records. Features Marian Petrescu on piano.

Resonance Big Band - Waltzing is Hip

Pianist-synthesist-vocalist-composer-producer Dan Del Negro is enjoying the culmination of a life in music. Honing musical skills and accumulating musical experiences as a freelance musician has led up to a new era as an artist: writing, recording, producing and releasing music, featuring a variety of jazz styles: straight-ahead, contemporary, Latin; all with infectious grooves, feeling-filled melodies and harmonies, and exciting improvisation.

This creative process was given a jumpstart during the Covid pandemic, when a weekly Jazz Vespers Dan was a part of went totally virtual - each band member would contribute solo music video every week, for about a year. Dan took that opportunity to give himself an assignment - write and produce a new recording every week!
That effort led to Dan’s 2021 album, “Some of My Favorite Grooves”.

Now Dan is releasing a regular output of singles, which will be organized into a new album later.

Born and raised in the Chicago area, Dan moved to Los Angeles in 1995. He played the show, “Miss Saigon” there and was invited to play it in Honolulu, HI. in 1999. Falling in love with the islands, Dan moved to Hawai`i at the end of 2000 and has lived there ever since.

While still doing live gigs, including the Jazz Vespers (at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Honolulu), and as a member of the Honolulu Jazz Quartet, Dan continues to focus on recordings, releasing on the streaming services. 
So check out the music, follow, like, and add!

Mainsail To Port

Dan Del Negro

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