@amithavguitar was playing altogether too much #jimihendrix and I felt that music wasn’t old enough. So here we are with a #fatswaller tune that maybe everyone in the know, knows. It’s called #honeysucklerose. Real fun song to sing. #jazzduo #guitarandvoice

#SophisticatedLady is a #jazzstandard written in 1933 by #DukeEllington and the words later on by #MichaelParrish. I’m singing it some 90 years later here in #Bangalore, accompanied by the amazing @yuraromaniv from #Lviv in the #Ukraine. We recorded the song this past week as Ukraine was being bombed, and many other horrors happened in Yura’s […]

https://youtu.be/8l6bt55id7o Sir G @amithavguitar and I actually did a live gig together a few weeks ago and it was terrific. This is another virtual collab on ‘How Deep Is The Ocean’ an #irvingBerlin tune written in #1932, 90 years ago. In another 10 years Amithav will be 27 and the song will be 100 and […]

https://youtu.be/VhDhjuj1hag My favourite blues man from Madras, Sir G (Amithav Gautam) and me doing #aintgotnothinbuttheblues. I know #robbenford does a version like this, but this is kind of like me paying homage to #MoseAllison, who was just the finest musician around. Piano, trumpet, singing all so very beautiful. I added a little of me, and […]

https://youtu.be/DwZOyLpHgeE Two dosais and one equinox. I wrote #RenduDosai some years ago based on something my sorta-niece @lulubeans9 said about eating two dosais. She was quoting #BobMarleys #SmokeTwoJoints. I loved the idea and the words to Rendu Dosai came tumbling out… (considering #tamizh is both my mother and father tongue) especially after I discovered that […]

https://youtu.be/mbUOkR4AEUM Many terrible things happened in 1934. From a rash of dictators rising in Germany, China, Russia, Bolivia and Brazil to the #GreatDepression reaching depths of hopelessness unseen before. But some nice things happened too. #DonaldDuck first appeared on the scene and so did this song #MyOldFlame. Moving to the #HereAndNow, accompanying me beautifully as […]

https://youtu.be/bo-e1cdr_x8 Smooth and silky, #Chill was written by my piano playin’ pal, Michael Molloy when he was just 19 or 20. I had no idea he could play guitar so nicely. So, presenting The Molloy Twins 1 and 2. One is feeling shy today and is hiding under his hat. Two is brave. Seriously, I […]

https://youtu.be/DLlsv1ku-JM Michael Molloy lives in London and I haven’t met him yet. But we’ve played many songs together… in fact we’re getting ready to do one of his originals soon. Mike has a very, very, very, very, very old Indian connection. His great, great, great, great, great grandfather Major M.J Molloy fell off his horse, […]

https://youtu.be/ayPDM4pyz2o There are times in life when nothing but a little #StevieRayVaughan will do. No #ellafitzgerald, no #sarahvaughan, just Stevie (not #steviewonder). #theskyiscrying is a song I’ve loved for years. I remember driving to #Connecticut from #LongIsland with the top down and blasting my #cassette (yeah, a gazillion years ago) at top volume, feeling like […]

https://youtu.be/1L51jYdwF4U They’re getting younger and younger, the musicians I’m working with these days, as I’m getting older and older. Meet @amithavguitar a 16 year-old, monster guitar player from Chennai. I met him through my friend @babimitra who sent me some of his music a few months ago. Since then Sir Gautam (he insists on calling […]