Hi there! First I'd like to thank the Creator for all good things brought to us. These are 14 songs of a 21 song CD Demo entitled Joy Ride.[The songs aren't which aren't in proper sequence.] (Truly we are here to experience a sort of Joy Ride from an inner perspective-if you only knew!) [You should be aware that I performed all instruments alto, soprano saxes, beem, percussions, Korg Triton Le & vocals--female vocals included. {I am seeking female talent. Call 505-603-7182.}] So enjoy, and listen intently, with an open mind.
All songs copy right protected 2007.
I listened to music ever since I was a youngling. Mother use to think I was obsessed. She was right. I started playing sax in 9th grade. I was gigging in New York jazz clubs in the 80s as I attended Mannes College of Music in NYC studying Saxophone Performance, and Classical Music. I also studied the History of Jazz & Ethnomusicology and I love musical instruments from all over the world. I'm thankful for the GREATEST SPIRIT for allowing HIS vibration to flow through me. HE may send these vibrations by ANGELS....I really don't know. I enjoy the MYSTERY of it ALL. I feel that music or sound is a medium in which connects us to a realm unseen by the human eye. Music is the magic carpet ride to the spiritual realm and musicians (participants) offer that portal to the listener. I surrender to this and offer you my heart through music. Think. The Human Brain is a Gift from our Creator so that We can B the Evolved; the Transformed; the limitless energy -- as the saying goes, 'we're created in the fashion of Thee' -- so use this energy (Blessing) to aid in the PERFECTION of our relationship to all that is! Thus I offer you my music with the intentions to inspire, unify and bring a lil dignity to the hearts and minds of the listener. Yeah, it's nothing wrong with a lil humor and sarcasim, but be assured this is Spiritually authentic in Nature and not superficial or skin deep.
I was influenced by music from the 1920s to the present date. Yeah you know, Scott Joplin of Linden Texas, James Brown of Barnwell South Carolina Tina Turner, Beyonce, Earth Wind & Fire, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Sam Cooke, Teddy Pendergrast, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Run DMC, Art of Noise, The Police, Bob Marley, Clifford Brown, Charlie Parker, Eric Dolphy, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Sony Stitt, Sony Fortune, Jackie Bayrd, Ornette Coleman, Coleman Hawkins, The Beatles, Yoko Ono, John, Alice & Rami Coltrane, Joshua Redman, Brandford Marsalis, Fela, Kool & the Gang, Lady Smith Mombasa, Cameo, AC/DC, Chicago, Steely Dan, The Crusaders, Pharoah Sanders, Diana Ross, The Jackson Five, The Isley Brothers, Rick James, Ohio Players, Eric Clapton, ABBA, Aerosmith, Average White Band, Rollin Stones, Bee Gees, Jackson Browne, Blondie, Ray Charles, Elvis Costello, Glenn Campbell, Alice Cooper, John Denver, The Doobie Brothers, Neil Diamond, Tom Jones, The Eagles, Electric Light Orchestra, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, The Four Tops, Fleetwood Mac, Foreigners, Marvin Gaye, Art Garfunkel, Gloria Gaynor, Genesis, Al Green, Hall & Oates, Issac Hayes, Janis Joplin, Billy Joel, Jefferson Starship, Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, KC & the Sunshine Band, King Crimson, BB King, Eddie Kendricks, Kraftwerk, KISS, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, John Lennon, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Barry Manilow, Curtis Mayfield, Joni Mitchell, Lauren Hill, Janet Jackson, Meat Loaf, Olivia Newton-John, Barbara Streisand, Tina Marie, Prince, The O'Jays, Donny Osmond, Cannon Ball Adderley, Parliment Funkadelics, Patti Labelle, The Pointer Sisters, Queen, Linda Ronstadt, Santana, Sex Pistols, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, Ringo Starr, Steve Miller Band, The Staple Singers, Bruce Springsteen, Donna Summers, Cat Stevens, Sly & the Family Stone, John Travolta, The Temptations, Dionne Warwick, Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Jimmy Weatherspoon, Grover Washington, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, The World Saxophone Quartet, Michel Patricion, Lonnie Liston Smith, Pat Matheny, Dave Bruebeck, Miles Davis, War, The Who, Frank Zappa, Count Basie, Sidney Bachet, Lester Bowie, Charlie Christian, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gilespie, Benny Goodman, Dexter Gordon, Gharlie Haden, Lionel Hampton, Herbie Hancock, Fletcher Henderson, Milt Hinton, Earl 'Father' Hines, Abby Lincoln, Jimmie Lunceford, Joe Lovano, Modern Jazz Quartet, Jackie McLean, Thelonious Monk, Jerry Mulligan, Jelly Roll Morton, Horace Silver, Art Tatum, Billy Strayhorn, Fats Waller, Bessie Smith, Sarah Vaughn, Lester Young, Beyonce, Destiny Child, Johnny Cash, all kinds of genre (I can go on forever); and of course THE CREATOR!!!!!!!!!! :-) I could go on forever.
PEACE
Wali Shakur
