TROPICIZER

'Tropicizer' features many of my own tunes, and a few more that were co-written with others. It's about half instrumental & half vocal.

Having spent a portion of my gigging career in the tropics, these styles of music always came easily and naturally to me...and it was a lot of fun writing and recording tunes that...for a change...actually reflect where I am performing!

This music has a reggae/soca/jazzy feel, with lots of Jobim-like nylon-string guitar, a generous dusting of jazzy steel pan, smooth jazz sax, white boy soul vocals & horn sections attempting to mimic the great sounds of a Cuban big band. If you like any of that stuff, you'll hopefully find something in here that speaks to you!

12-1-09 release

B.B. DOGG

After a couple of rough hurricane seasons, there was good reason to start that long - talked about recording project: "The Blues Album". After writing and recording on and off over the next 18 months with old music cohort Larry Z, the "One Blue Shoe" cd was finally completed!

We were even able to enlist "The Bones of Contention" to add a great horn section to some of the tunes! Tim "Boogiehead" Poindexter added some great sax to a couple of cuts; Geo G. Dawg added some lead guitar to one tune; "Even Steven" kicked in his funky drum groove on several tunes; and blue-eyed soul sister Caucazia sang her heart out on background vocals!

8-1-07 release

SANIBEL SAMBA

Although this is technically not my own solo cd, my playing is featured heavily on this all-instrumental Danny Morgan co-production. I'm first featured as John G. McLane on alto sax and guitar on several songs; I then then mysteriously re-appear as Wayward Jensen on steel pan, and then again as Johnny Duke on piano. Also, most of the rhythm section and horn section parts are performed by "yours truely". A nice smooth-jazzy cd overall, featuring several fine players.

12/08 release

KEEPIN ' IT CASUAL

This 2000 smooth jazz/ r&b collection was never actually mass-manufactured for retail sale, although it did get a some token jukebox and radio play around 2000-2001.

Feb '10: Work starts on another "smooth-jazzy-r&b" cd which will include some of the best from this unreleased project, plus some brand new stuff....will also be available for download on Amazon, I-tunes, etc.

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"JOHN GRAHAM MCLANE"
"John Graham McLane" was  a  mid- nineties release. This adventurous all-original-music album made some waves in several European countries  This cd  became a "demonstration tool"  for several high-end sound equipment dealers & an international sound company.
Most of the original 1000 copies of this release ended up distributed in Germany, Belgium and France and currently it's out of print .