Break & Marcus Miller!
Hello, There will be a break until early December. But there are plenty of good music on my site. Use the search field (style, artist…). Keep on grooving! Torbjörn PS Below is a great concert with Marcus Miller. Enjoy! Marcus Miller – “Live at Java Jazz Festival” in Jakarta, Indonesia (March 2, 2013) […]
Quote # 64 by Mike Stern
“Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can’t take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.” – Mike Stern Mike Stern (born Michael Philips Stern; January 10, 1953) is an American jazz guitarist. After playing for a few years with […]
Shine was a fantastic funk and soul inspiration!
Shine was a fantastic funk and soul inspiration! The band Shine from Sweden, was a fantastic funk and soul inspiration in the early 80´s. USA had Brothers Johnson with Louis Johnson on bass, and in Sweden we had Shine with Kofi Bentsi-Enchill on bass. Very Sadly Kofi passed away in March 2002 (he was born […]
Bobby Lyle is a great keyboard player, singer and musician
Bobby Lyle is a jazz, soul jazz, and smooth jazz pianist. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee but grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota in a home near the corner of Park Avenue and 32nd Street. Bobby had his first gig at 16 and played in the 1960s with Gene and Jerry Hubbard in the […]
Bad News Travels Fast – was a great French funk-jazz-disco group
Bad News Travels Fast – was a great French funk-jazz-disco group Bad News Travels Fast was one of Alec R. Costandinos’ many productions of the late 70s, releasing two albums. Although the records had Costandinos’ patent sound, they were in no way another disco project of his, this was a straight funk ensemble with […]
Thierry Eliez is a wonderful French musician, composer and singer
Thierry Eliez (born 1964) is a wonderful French musician, composer and singer. Thierrys main instruments are keyboards and piano. The first time I heard Thierry was with the great French drummer (composer, arranger and producer) André “Dede” Ceccarelli. I will also write about “Dede” in the future. Personally I think “Dede” have the same […]
Patrice Rushen is a wonderful musician
Patrice Rushen is a wonderful musician Patrice Louise Rushen (born September 30, 1954) is an American composer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, music director and vocalist. She is best known for the 1982 hit, “Forget Me Nots”, for which she received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. Patrice has a […]
Dimension = fusion made in Japan
Here are several flavors from Japan with the great jazz-funk-rock (fusion) group Dimension. As I wrote in my first post about Dimension, they have recorded more than 25 albums between 1992 and 2012. Dimension deserves much more attention outside Japan, trust me. Below you find sound clips with studio recordings and live videos. If […]
George Duke
George Duke is a wonderful musician who I will come back to several times later on. I have listened to him since my teens and also seen him live many times. Miles Davis said about George Duke that he is almost to funky. Below you have some teasers to start with. Cannonball Adderley […]
Bobby Sparks
Bobby Sparks is a master on the keyboards. He is the opposite to the digital musician and goes with his tagline “Analog Forever”. The first time I listened to Bobby was when he played with Marcus Miller in Stockholm 2007. He played the bass part on his minimoog so deep and with such a […]