Featured Tracks Playlist October 2025

Next up is My Haunted Mind from my CD Living in Strange Times. This track I placed in the genre cool jazz. I really love the orchestration on this track. I kept it simple with a cool walking bass guitar line, a Fender Rhodes electric piano sound for the backing chords and a baby grand piano sound for the melody and solo. I am playing my Fender Stratocaster for all the guitar work. I wrote this track in the key of C minor which has a dark or mysterious sound to it, hence the title. Let’s give My Haunted Mind a listen.

Next up is Your Kiss from my CD I’m Gonna Let It Ride. This is a smooth jazz, upbeat song with a lush soundscape and a beautiful melody. This track showcases the first set of horn and strings sounds that I fell in love with. I use them to push this track’s groove forward along with that killer solo. I played the melody and solo on the Fender Stratocaster. The Fender Rhodes Electric piano is holding down the chords along with those strings and horns. I really love my drum programming and those string and horn hits over the solo. This is just a great song, I hope you enjoy it. Let’s give Your Kiss a listen.

Let’s slow things down a bit with Listen to Your Heart. This track is from my CD Life on The Other Side. The inspiration for this track came during one of our Sunday family dinners, when I heard my daughter humming or whistling a little melody. I sat at the piano and started to play the melody she was whistling, and the song was born. I love my arrangement on this track, starting with just the piano and soft strings. I’m playing my fender acoustic electric on this track for the melody along with that great baby grand piano sound. This track takes you on a journey from its soft opening through a powerful middle section and back to a soft ending. Let’s give Listen to Your Heart a listen.

The last track on this month’s playlist is Just Stay, from my CD Told Ya. This power ballad starts with a Fender Rhodes electric piano sound playing the chords, with soft rising strings. The melody begins with a baby grand piano sound and later I add in my Ibanez Hollow Body. I love the horns and string sounds I used on this track; they really drive the song. The third section of the track with those great horns, strings, drum programing and that killer guitar solo I played on my Gibson SG, sound awesome. Let’s give, Just Stay a listen.