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It’s a Herb Alpert kind of morning
Spinning Rise — mellow grooves, smooth brass, and a timeless number one hit
Perfect soundtrack for easing into the day
... un fugaz instante de belleza ... sólo eso ...
... a fleeting moment of beauty ... just that ....
... salud, buenas luces y muchas gracias!!! ...... xo♥ox
... health, good lights and thanks so much!!! ... xo♥ox
... Series: "Espacio Negativo" / Negative Space"
... Music: "Breezin" (Bobby Womack) classic version of great George Benson ... smooth jazz to enjoy ... and relax!!!
... www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgxL-khJ--Q ... 05.36 ...
... mejor si pulsas "L" ... / ... better if you press "L" ...
Am so literal! The seventh scavenger item is “music to my ears” and this is what someone could listen to if the tv fare is not to their liking.
Don't ask me to explain ~ most probably wouldn't understand . . . it's just that these blowing flowers shot at dusk with the headlight of another car zipping behind them just reminded me of our fun times in 2001 when we temporarily relocated to Berkeley and the San Francisco Bay area.
Maybe these daisies are just a perfect icon for what it feels like to hang on to a rail and go tooling up hills on those great little cable cars.
Racing all over the state of California, we got to see such wonderful sites. These colors were kind of 1960s-style, as in: "If You're Going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair . . . " Thank you, Scott McKenzie.
We saw Scott McKenzie singing live in 2003; white pony tail and all, he was just as mellow all these years later as one would hope he would be. Sweet musical memories.
This is just a fun photo for me to share with you.
This fellow did a wonderful job on this youtube piece. Enjoy it!
"If You're Going to San Francisco" . . .
Barry Manilow at the Xcel Energy Center on January 11, 2008
Photo by Matt Becker - www.melodicrockconcerts.com
matt@melodicrockconcerts.com
Petra Magoni voce
Ferruccio Spinetti contrabbasso
Summertime in Jazz | 17-07-2017
Piazza S. Agata | Rivergaro (Pc) | Italy
Organizzazione Piacenza Jazz Club
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Backstage of the show: TANGO Y FADO | Pedro Moutinho, Voce - Andre Dias, Guitara Portuguesa - Tiago Silva, Chitarra | Roxana Suarez y Sebastian Achaval - Mariano Otero y Alejandra Heredia, Ballerini | La Juan D’Arienzo, Orchestra Live
Lisbon International Tango Festival 2017 | GaZ Blanco Official Photographer | www.lusitango.com
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... muchas gracias, Sol, por todas las estrellas rosas y el buen feeling ... xo♥ox ...
... thanks a lot, Sol, for all the pink stars and the good feeling ................. xo♥ox ...
... descubrir a / discover MSonsoles: www.flickr.com/photos/msonsoles/
... salud, buenas luces y muchas gracias ... xo♥ox ...
... health, good lights and thanks a lot ........ xo♥ox ...
... Music: "After Hours" by Ronny Jordan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jp7l_T_NfU
... mejor si pulsas "L" / ... better is you press "L"
Petra Magoni voce
Ferruccio Spinetti contrabbasso
Summertime in Jazz | 17-07-2017
Piazza S. Agata | Rivergaro (Pc) | Italy
Organizzazione Piacenza Jazz Club
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Petra Magoni voce
Ferruccio Spinetti contrabbasso
Summertime in Jazz | 17-07-2017
Piazza S. Agata | Rivergaro (Pc) | Italy
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Petra Magoni voce
Ferruccio Spinetti contrabbasso
Summertime in Jazz | 17-07-2017
Piazza S. Agata | Rivergaro (Pc) | Italy
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Petra Magoni voce
Ferruccio Spinetti contrabbasso
Summertime in Jazz | 17-07-2017
Piazza S. Agata | Rivergaro (Pc) | Italy
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I wish all a Very Happy New Year
Above is a low-light-level capture that was taken in almost complete darkness. It's absolutely amazing the low-light that your camera picks up...with almost nothing there! Just when you think it's over...wait another ten minutes, it might come back... It's never over until the Sandman says it's over ~ sunset afterglow ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
(five more photos of this night in the comments)
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Time to chill out to the 'Smooth Jazz' sounds
of guitarist George Benson: "On Broadway"
Wanted to share super cool news from our music studio - my Julian Ray just released his fabulous album SMOOTH & JAZZY!
It's a sparkling blend of Smooth Jazz, Chillout, Lounge and Easy Listening genres with an elegant touch of romantics, a zest of playfulness and beautiful melodies of Julian's unique style!
This album makes me fly with my imagination : ) My fave songs so far are Stargazing, Only Love and Hardwired Love : ) Splendid smooth jazz collection! Bravo, Julian!
Of course, I did an artwork for the cover, using one of my Astro Projection images on festive cityscapes of our Toronto that felt smooth, jazzy and sparkling to fit the mood of the music : )
The album is already on iTunes & Amazon and also is available at BandCamp)
You are welcome to listen to full songs in super quality on album's web-page at www.julianraymusic.com/albums/smooth_and_jazzy/main.php or on BandCamp
Happy listening! :-)
Now we have to have some Smooth & Jazzy party :-) Cheers to ALL and have a fab weekend!
Petra Magoni voce
Ferruccio Spinetti contrabbasso
Summertime in Jazz | 17-07-2017
Piazza S. Agata | Rivergaro (Pc) | Italy
Organizzazione Piacenza Jazz Club
All rights reserved | GaZ BLANCO © 2017
Petra Magoni voce
Ferruccio Spinetti contrabbasso
Summertime in Jazz | 17-07-2017
Piazza S. Agata | Rivergaro (Pc) | Italy
Organizzazione Piacenza Jazz Club
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Grammy nominated singer Maysa played on a brutally cold and windy Saturday night to a nearly packed house. She was wonderful. Smooth Jazz on Chicago's near west side from the back of the venue.
Petra Magoni voce
Ferruccio Spinetti contrabbasso
Summertime in Jazz | 17-07-2017
Piazza S. Agata | Rivergaro (Pc) | Italy
Organizzazione Piacenza Jazz Club
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In the early 1970's, Donald Byrd, then, a hard-bop jazz trumpeter, hired the Mizell brothers as his producer (formerly of Motown). As partners, they put the word 'fusion' on Billboard's center stage for close to a decade. Today, fusion has been replaced with 'smooth jazz' as the genre. Their style was an amalgamation of jazz, R&B, and gospel-soul featuring Byrd's solo jazz trumpet. Byrd, of course, was ridiculed by the jazz community; but his success, helped trigger a mass exodus of that same community, which was determined to cash-in on the developing market of -- fusion. Blue Note, was the label.
I like this caricature, elongated style imagery that captures and represents, 'stompin, and finger-poppin good times' (remember those?).
This is the album cover from Donald Byrd's album, entitled: Donald Byrd and 125 Street, N.Y.C. (1979)
The artist is: Ernie Barnes (former NFL player, 1959-1966)
The Granddaddy of R&B (Bobby Martin) was one of the first African American executives to produce, arrange, compose and publish songs in the music industry! Bobby Martin took over the music scene in Philadelphia in the late 1950's with a new urban sounding music that was different from Soul and Rock and Roll. Bobby Martin was born on May 4, 1930 in Ohio. He was mentored and taught by Jazz legends Frank Foster and Lionel Hampton, and Martin began playing the vibraphones professionally throughout the late 1940's with The Lynn Hope Orchestra, a Rhythm and Blues group. By the year 1950 Bobby Martin had made a name for himself in music as a famous vibraphonist (vibraphone player) and as an arranger for The Lynn Hope Orchestra. Bobby Martin signed a recording deal with The Lynn Hope Orchestra in Philadelphia, and the group moved to Philadelphia before Motown existed in the mid 1950's. Motown was founded in 1959, and Soul music was acknowledged a few years later. Rhythm and Blues music came after Soul and Rock and Roll music, and Rhythm and Blues was acknowledged in the late 1960's. However, Bobby Martin had been recording Rhythm and Blues music professionally with The Lynn Hope Orchestra long before Motown and Motown Soul music existed. Martin was often ridiculed, persecuted, and disliked for his strange new sounding music that was so different from Jazz and from Rock and Roll. In 1956 Bobby Martin made and attempt to produce Rhythm and Blues groups in Philadelphia, but lacked the funding to promote and record artists, but in 1958 he was given the opportunity to produce, arrange and compose Rhythm and Blues music. And so he did just that, under different name titles since he was known as Robert L. Martin, Robert L., R. L. Martin, B. Martin, Robert Martin, Bobby Martin and Robert M. at the time. And so he built up a great success with his artists until he discovered Patti LaBelle in 1959. After producing, arranging, composing and publishing the Rhythm and Blues legend's (Patti LaBelle's) first album, Bobby Martin's career took off. Everything Bobby Martin touched turned to gold, as far as music was concerned. Yet Rhythm and Blues was not acknowledged as music yet, Bobby Martin's music was Rhythm and Blues music without a title, and Motown's Soul music was just starting to get popular. After Motown and Soul music made big names for themselves in the early 1960's, Rhythm and Blues came about, around the year 1970. This was when Bobby Martin, Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, and Thom Bell teamed up to form Philadelphia International Records. Bobby Martin produced or arranged all of Philadelphia International Records biggest hit songs. Not only was Bobby Martin playing, producing, composing and publishing Rhythm and Blues before any one else, he was good at what he was doing! This is what made Bobby Martin the king of R&B. Bobby Martin produced and arranged platinum hits on all of the top Rhythm and Blues artists, including Michael Jackson and The Jackson's. Bobby Martin eventually changed American music with his signature sound, and producers and arrangers began copying Bobby Martin's sound. He eventually took his Rhythm and Blues to Hollywood and to the major league record labels. He then formed his famous production company named Bobby Martin Productions. The multi Grammy winner and ex bandleader of the legendary MFSB had become much more than only a legend in the music world that changed music, he had become a celebrity producer and household name. And he was the top Rhythm and Blues producer in the world by the late 1970's, while working at A&M records in Hollywood with Quincy Jones. Bobby Martin remains active with music productions in 2013. He was named The Granddaddy of Rhythm and Blues because he definitely is The Granddaddy of Rhythm and Blues music. If it weren't for Bobby Martin and his contributions to music, we would not have Rhythm and Blues.
"The Greatest Love of All" for the 1977 Muhammad Ali bio-pic, The Greatest, which was later covered by Whitney Houston as "Greatest Love of All". During this time Benson recorded with the German conductor, Claus Ogerman. The live take of "On Broadway", recorded a few months later from the 1978 release Weekend in L.A., also won a Grammy. He has worked with Freddie Hubbard on a number of his albums throughout the '60s, '70s and '80s. He joined the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1979, where he is still active to date. The Qwest record label (a subsidiary of Warner Bros., run by Quincy Jones) released Benson's breakthrough pop album Give Me The Night, produced by Jones. Benson made it into the pop and R&B top ten with the song "Give Me the Night" (written by former Heatwave keyboardist Rod Temperton). More importantly, Quincy Jones encouraged Benson to search his roots for further vocal inspiration, and he re-discovered his love for Nat Cole, Ray Charles and Donny Hathaway in the process, influencing a string of further vocal albums into the '90s. Despite returning to his jazz and guitar playing most recently, this theme was reflected again much later in Benson's 2000 release Absolute Benson featuring a cover of one of Hathaway's most notable songs, The Ghetto. Benson accumulated three other platinum LPs and two gold albums. Later and current careeredit: In 1985 Benson and guitarist Chet Atkins went on the smooth jazz charts with their collaboration "Sunrise", one of two songs from the duo released on Atkins' disc Stay Tuned. In 1992, Benson appeared on Jack McDuff's Colour Me Blue album, his first appearance on a Concord album. Benson signed with Concord Records in 2005 and toured with Al Jarreau in America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand to promote their 2006 multiple Grammy winning album Givin' It Up. He played during the second Monsoon Cup in Terengganu in 2006 and also Malaysia's 50th Merdeka celebration alongside Jarreau in 2007. In May 2008, for the first time Benson took part in Mawazine Festival in Morocco. To commemorate the long-term relationship between Benson and Ibanez and to celebrate 30 years of collaboration on the GB Signature Models, Ibanez created the GB30TH, a very limited edition model featuring a gold foil finish inspired by the traditional Japanese Garahaku art form. In 2009, Benson was recognized by the National Endowment of the Arts as a Jazz Master, the nations highest honor in Jazz. Benson performed at the 49th issue of The Ohrid Summer Festival in Macedonia on July 25, 2009, and his tribute show to Nat King Cole "An Unforgettable Tribute to Nat King Cole" as part of the Istanbul International Jazz Festival in Turkey on July 27. In the fall of 2009, Benson finished recording a new album titled Songs and Stories, with Marcus Miller, producer John Burk, and session musicians David Paich and Steve Lukather. As a part of the promotion for his recent Concord Music Group/Monster Music release Songs and Stories, Benson has appeared and/or performed on The Tavis Smiley Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Benson toured throughout 2010 in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim, including an appearance at the Singapore Sun Festival. He performed at the Java Jazz Festival March 4-6, 2011. In 2011, Benson released the album Guitar Man--revisiting his '60s/early-'70s guitar-playing roots with a 12-song collection of covers of both jazz and pop standards overseen by producer John Burk. In June of 2013, Benson released his fourth album for Concord Records, Inspiration: A Tribute to Nat King Cole, which featured Wynton Marsalis, Idina Menzel, Till Brönner, and Judith Hill.
Larry Graham & Graham Central Station was a showcase for the revolutionary pop-and-slap bass guitar of Larry Graham, an alumnus of Sly & the Family Stone largely responsible for originating the percussive groove which typified the progressive funk sound of the '70s. Born August 14, 1946 in Beaumont, Texas, Graham was raised in Oakland, California; by his teens he was adept not only on bass but also guitar, harmonica, and drums, and at the age of 15 began performing with the Dell Graham Trio, his mother's lounge act. While attending college, he served as a supporting musician with the likes of John Lee Hooker, Jackie Wilson, Jimmy Reed, and the Drifters; in 1968 he joined Sly & the Family Stone, appearing with the group during the halcyon period which gave rise to such classic albums as Stand! and There's a Riot Goin' On, as well as smash singles like "Dance to the Music" and "Everybody Is a Star," both of which prominently feature Graham's cavernous baritone in addition to his enormously influential thumping bass style. In the wake of behind-the-scenes turmoil, Graham exited the group in late 1972; after initially agreeing to produce a band named Hot Chocolate (not the same act famed for hit singles like "Emma" and "You Sexy Thing"), he eventually joined their lineup, renaming the unit Graham Central Station. A propulsive, infectious funk ensemble, their original roster also included guitarist David "Dynamite" Vega, keyboardists Robert "Butch" Sam (formerly with Billy Preston), and Hershall "Happiness" Kennedy, percussionist Patryce "Chocolate" Banks, and drummer Willie "Wild" Sparks. The debut Graham Central album, an eponymously titled effort released in 1974, proved highly successful, launching a minor pop hit with "Can You Handle It." Another hit, "Feel the Need," emerged from Release Yourself, issued later that same year; the third GCS LP, 1975's Ain't No Bout-A-Doubt It, yielded the single "Your Love," a Top 40 pop hit which also topped the R&B charts. Mirror followed a year later. With 1977's Now Do U Wanta Dance, Graham Central Station scored another R&B smash with the title track; by the release of 1978's My Radio Sure Sounds Good to Me, Graham's wife Tina had signed on as a vocalist, but pop crossover success remained elusive, and after Star Walk the following year, the group disbanded. Graham then turned solo, moving from funk to soulful ballads; his debut effort, 1980's One in a Million You, reached the Top 30, the title track becoming a Top Ten hit. 1981's Just Be My Lady yielded another hit with its own title cut, while 1982's Sooner or Later was also successful. However, after 1983's Victory, Graham's career took a downward turn, with 1985's Fired Up released solely in Japan. Aside from 1987's "If You Need My Love Tonight," a minor hit duet with Aretha Franklin, he was largely out of the public eye in the years to follow, instead working as a songwriter and sideman. By the early '90s, Graham was leading Psychedelic Psoul, a nine-piece band which toured with comedian/singer Eddie Murphy; he also toured with the Crusaders. Following Sly & the Family Stone's 1993 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, he re-formed Graham Central Station, eventually bringing into the fold former Family Stone bandmates Cynthia Robinson on trumpet and Jerry Martini on saxophone. Throughout Graham's lean years, one of his most vocal supporters remained the Artist Formerly Known as Prince, who readily acknowledged the influence of GCS not only on his music but also on his flamboyant stage show; by 1997, Graham Central Station was ensconced as the regular supporting act on Prince's extended Jam of the Year tour, with the group also issuing a Japanese album titled By Popular Demand. Sessions with Prince at Paisley Park yielded GCS 2000 (1998), released during Graham's stint as the purple one's bassist. While he wrote and toured on and off for several years, he didn't release another album with Graham Central Station until 2012, when Raise Up arrived on the Moosicus label.