Jul 19, 2022 #TicoTico#Brazilian#NikoNiko 757 views • Jul 19, 2022 • #TicoTico #Brazilian #NikoNikoToday little #NikoRaPersson my grandson, turns one month. I can’t wait another 11 months to make him a birthday song. I just cannot. This is an adaptation of an old #Brazilian song called #TicoTico. I’m calling this #NikoNiko. Hope u like it […]

@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 […]