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Peter Sprague
United States
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Peter Sprague Plays “Had To Cry Today” featuring Leonard Patton
Cream was a mega band that had a fairly short lifespan. That’s not uncommon and a band is a lot like a marriage - the gravity will take you towards an argument if you don’t remain humble and have your communication skills at the ready.
Cream morphed into Blind Faith and their lifespan was even shorter - one brilliant record and that was it.
“Had to Cry Today” was from the Blind Faith album and it’s a song written by Stevie Winwood. It’s been a favorite of mine for years and I had a wonderful time coming up with this arrangement featuring Leonard on vocals and a 4 piece horn section. I went wild with the modulations and one early listener said it reminded him of Frank Zappa. I’ll take it!
Here’s the band:
Peter Sprague - guitar
Leonard Patton - vocals
Danny Green - piano
Justin Grinnell - bass
Duncan Moore - drums
Tripp Sprague - tenor and alto saxophone
Steve Dillard - trumpet
Andy Geib - trombone
This song is on our album “Sunshine Of Your Love - Peter Sprague Plays Cream” now available on all streaming platforms and on my webstore: www.store.petersprague.com/categories/sunshine-of-your-love-peter-sprague-plays-cream-category
video mixing by Peter Sprague
audio mixing by Peter Sprague
livestream team: Stefanie Sprague and Brian Balthazor
For more info on Peter Sprague and his recordings, please visit:
www.petersprague.com
I've got online video lessons going too at: www.openstudionetwork.com/jazz-guitar-foundations/
Thanks for listening and watching!
Cream morphed into Blind Faith and their lifespan was even shorter - one brilliant record and that was it.
“Had to Cry Today” was from the Blind Faith album and it’s a song written by Stevie Winwood. It’s been a favorite of mine for years and I had a wonderful time coming up with this arrangement featuring Leonard on vocals and a 4 piece horn section. I went wild with the modulations and one early listener said it reminded him of Frank Zappa. I’ll take it!
Here’s the band:
Peter Sprague - guitar
Leonard Patton - vocals
Danny Green - piano
Justin Grinnell - bass
Duncan Moore - drums
Tripp Sprague - tenor and alto saxophone
Steve Dillard - trumpet
Andy Geib - trombone
This song is on our album “Sunshine Of Your Love - Peter Sprague Plays Cream” now available on all streaming platforms and on my webstore: www.store.petersprague.com/categories/sunshine-of-your-love-peter-sprague-plays-cream-category
video mixing by Peter Sprague
audio mixing by Peter Sprague
livestream team: Stefanie Sprague and Brian Balthazor
For more info on Peter Sprague and his recordings, please visit:
www.petersprague.com
I've got online video lessons going too at: www.openstudionetwork.com/jazz-guitar-foundations/
Thanks for listening and watching!
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Peter Sprague Plays “Born Under a Bad Sign” featuring Leonard Patton
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One of my favorite bands when I was growing up in California was Cream. They ripped it up with hard hitting rock sensibilities all the while going cosmic with jazz explorations -extended jams that explored the outer realms of modal harmony. It was the ultimate power trio with Eric Clapton on guitar, Jack Bruce on bass, and Ginger Baker hitting hard on the drums. We played some of their songs in...
Peter Sprague Plays “I Have Nothing” featuring Rebecca Jade
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A little while back I started to explore the idea of coming up with new jazz arrangements of Rebecca Jade singing songs that Whitney Houston made famous. Whitney’s one of my favorites and Rebecca said she too was super influenced by Whitney when she was coming up. The movie “The Bodyguard” had some classic songs with Whitney pulling off full on magic with her singing. “I Have Nothing” was one o...
Peter Sprague Plays “Little Green” featuring Aubrey Johnson
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Joni sings: “Call her Green, and the winters cannot fade her Call her Green for the children who've made her Little Green, be a gypsy dancer” This is one of my favorite Joni Mitchell songs and for me it captures some of what Joni was going through when she was younger and gave up her daughter for adoption. It’s on her “Blue” record and is one of the great moments of music. For our version we’ve...
Peter Sprague Plays “Watercolors”
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Here’s one of Pat Metheny’s classic tunes “Watercolors”outfitted with a sweet melodic line and some good blowing changes. We’d of course heard the song before but It was a new one for us to learn. This performance first appeared on our Episode 27 Live(ish) From SpragueLand livestream called Peter Sprague Plays Pat Metheny - Watercolors. Me and the band were gearing up for an actual live gig wit...
Peter Sprague Plays “You Won’t See Me” featuring Allison Adams Tucker
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Here we go with a jazzified Beatles song with updated chord changes and a bossa nova groove. It’s one of my favorites of theirs and it’s on the Rubber Soul album. This performance first appeared on our Episode 32 livestream from SpragueLand and here is the link for the whole show: ua-cam.com/users/liveGxsd1N7KoUo?si=QIgJj59XwBEv6Xsr Peter Sprague - guitar Allison Adams Tucker - vocals John Opfe...
Peter Sprague Plays “Serrado” featuring Allison Adams Tucker
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Here’s a song written by the great Brazilian artist named Djavan. Ever since we discovered the music of Brazil we immediately fell in love with Djavan’s singing and his songs. They are a cool blend of bossa nova and pop and have supreme rhythmic and harmonic integrity. On our version of “Serrado” we have Allison sounding beautiful singing in Portuguese. The whole band is cooking along and the i...
Peter Sprague Plays “Playground of the Gods” featuring Rebecca Jade
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Here’s a new song that I composed with Randy Phillips contributing the lyrics. We were deep in the trenches with our “One Fell Swoop” album release and realized that what was missing from our collection of original songs was a more uptempo Metheny-esque piece. Metheny is an essential influence in all of our projects. It’s a cosmic tale inviting the listener to time travel to a place of inner qu...
Peter Sprague Plays “Dry Cleaner From Des Moines” featuring Sinne Eeg
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“You get a little lucky and you make a little money.” So saideth the great Joni Mitchell telling the tale of a dry cleaner from Des Moines that had a gift with the Las Vegas slots. What a tune and for our version we’ve got Sinne Eeg reveling in the influence of Joni. The song is a jazz blues with some cool twists and turns. Tripp solos throughout swinging hard and be sure to also check out Sinn...
Peter Sprague Plays “We Love the Drums” featuring Duncan Moore
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The backstory to this unique video all starts with our very own Digital Brian. As you might of discovered, this fellow is continually searching for a new approach to things and this coupled with his high level of tech knowledge brought around the idea for this performance. Brian found these special drum sticks that shoot out light and asked me if we could include them in our upcoming livestream...
Peter Sprague Plays “California” featuring Sinne Eeg
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Back in the thick of Covid we did some livestream shows broadcasting from Radio Free Leucadia. On many occasions we would get a guest artist living in some remote location to join in on the music. How it would work is I would send them a guitar backing track and they would record and video themselves playing with the track. They’d send their part back to me and then live on the broadcast me and...
Peter Sprague Plays “Have You Heard” featuring Leonard Patton
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In the world of great songs, this gem by Pat Metheny is right up there. What a gorgeous melody floating on top of an infectious and easeful 7/4 groove. Pat is one of my main influences as both a guitarist and a composer. He’s singlehandedly created a unique style of music and he owns the airwaves when you’re talking about being melodic. I could go on and on but we might as well get right into t...
Peter Sprague Plays “Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds” featuring Leonard Patton
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For this video we’re playing a super high quality Beatles composition with wild key changes, an iconic intro, and hippy lyrics. What a song! A few things to look out for - Leonard’s singing up a storm throughout, on the choruses I’m singing too and this may be a first. Duncan’s playing in front of an outer space backdrop, Tripp’s carving cool lines on the EWI (electronic wind instrument), Mack’...
Peter Sprague Plays “Hallelujah” featuring Rebecca Jade
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Here’s our version of one of the great songs of the world. Leonard Cohen composed this gem in 1984 and almost every muso has their unique version of it. For our version I stay with the 3/4 tempo and mostly the melody is the same but I did explore some alternative harmonic movements and I’m hoping these changes work well on your ears too. Rebecca on vocals is pure heaven and Tripp’s flute is a w...
Peter Sprague Plays “Gotta Have You” featuring Leonard Patton and Rebecca Jade
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Peter Sprague Plays “Gotta Have You” featuring Leonard Patton and Rebecca Jade
Peter Sprague Plays “The Wind Cries Mary” featuring Lisa Hightower
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Peter Sprague Plays “The Wind Cries Mary” featuring Lisa Hightower
Peter Sprague Plays “Ocean Song, Earth Song”
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Peter Sprague Plays “Ocean Song, Earth Song”
Peter Sprague Plays “Samba Em Comun” featuring Sinne Eeg
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Peter Sprague Plays “Samba Em Comun” featuring Sinne Eeg
Peter Sprague Plays “The Kiss” featuring Allison Adams Tucker
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Peter Sprague Plays “The Kiss” featuring Allison Adams Tucker
Peter Sprague Plays “Carey” featuring Pam Pendrell
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Peter Sprague Plays “Carey” featuring Pam Pendrell
Peter Sprague Plays “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You” featuring Rebecca Jade
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Peter Sprague Plays “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You” featuring Rebecca Jade
Peter Sprague Plays “Norwegian Wood” featuring Allison Adams Tucker
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Peter Sprague Plays “Norwegian Wood” featuring Allison Adams Tucker
Peter Sprague Plays “Getting Better”
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Peter Sprague Plays “Getting Better”
Peter Sprague Plays “In a Sentimental Mood”
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Peter Sprague Plays “In a Sentimental Mood”
Peter Sprague Plays “My One and Only Love”
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Peter Sprague Plays “My One and Only Love”
Peter Sprague Plays Coltrane’s “Wise One”
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Peter Sprague Plays Coltrane’s “Wise One”
Peter Sprague Plays Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”
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Peter Sprague Plays Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”
Peter Sprague Plays “Badge” featuring Leonard Patton
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Peter Sprague Plays “Badge” featuring Leonard Patton
OMG! She's got a voice for the ages and kills this tune! And Tripp shows that he's one of the G.O.A.T.!
Wonderful performance 👏
Thanks for the listen!
The next 100 views on this may very well be from me... .
Thanks so much for the listen and I LOVED your comment too. How nice!
@@PeterSpragueMusic Thank you!!
It feels good to have a song with heart.
I agree and this one has it all!
Go ahead Rebecca Jade, we’re so proud of you. Keep up the good work and always believe in yourself ❤ aka Bill Albright
Thanks Tony for the listen...
Beautiful and powerful voice and sound.
Thank you so much!
Arigatou go zai masu .Nice sound !
wow....what a tight band....and amazing arrangement....and great sounding recording......really something....
thanks Bob for the listen. What a great song out of the gate!
You guys always pick songs that had such an integral influence on my life (I’m 68 this month). Thanks and as always great job!!!👏👍❤️
Our pleasure!
Loved all the solos....I've have to cry today too if I had to modulate through all those different keys!
Sri Shrednoy!
It does sound like Zappa!
You could have scored this for Steely Dan also!
That's right, Steely Dan!
Fabulous and fresh.
Jazz rock is cool!
@@PeterSpragueMusic Duncan is the anti - Ginger, Mitch Mitchell, would be fun to see him lose his perfect timing and go off.
Fantastic performance of a fantastic song!
Thanks Steve for the listen.
Slick arrangement. Can hear some Zappa, also early Breckers. Camera angle made singer look a little like Mike Tyson, which is hard to unsee! LOL
Hah, Mike Tyson, yeah!
@@PeterSpragueMusic A singer you don't want to get in the ring with!
@@firstlast4874 Hah! That's classic!
@@PeterSpragueMusic Seems like a great dude, in any event
Excellent!
Thank you! Cheers!
7th fan view, 1st LIKE - what's NOT to like?! Cheers from your island fan. Nice Fathers Day treat, Fellas-fellow-Dads & any Grampas.
Thanks 👍
This is beautiful! Came here from the website.
Awesome! Thank you!
amazing bueatiful
So nice indeed!
You guys rock!
What do you want to do when you grow up! I wanna rock!
So beautiful, evocative to memories from the past, congrats on these great artists!❤🤗🌈
Thanks Hugo for the spin and kind words...
wow love Rebecca's fabulous singing & your piano new jazzy performance Peter, also love the flute & guitar ,,,,,,,,,,,greetings Renee
Thanks Renee for the listen. LOVE Rebecca!
psycho dellic man!!!
Wow, wow, wow !!! Bravíssimo !!!!
Gracias for the listen!
great guitar solo....!!!
Banging around!
I love the interlude.
Chick Corea meets Clapton!
Dang the vocalist is amazing! So smooth and precise in his articulation.
Thanks and yeah on Leonard!
Great!
thanks!
Dude, is there anything you can't do?! This is great!
i can't bend strings very well!
EXCELLENT!
Thanks for listening
.. unison part.. splendid ...
Thanks for digging the interlude!
Que versión!!! saludos desde Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gracias for the listen!
PHENOMENAL! ❤
Thanks for checking us out!
great sound quality-amazing vocal performance🌺🙏
Many thanks!!
Wwowowowowowow
Thanks for checking us out!
GREAT!
Such a great song!
One of the most beautiful renditions ever ❤️
How nice!
Lovely.
Thanks for checking us out!
@@PeterSpragueMusic Thanks for sharing the music!
beautifully done.....i like the strings in the intro....nice arrangement played flawlessly....her voice...so true ...the quality...intonation....phrasing.....
Cool on you Bob and thanks for tuning in!
Choosing Whitney's full soulful vocals: many stars! And hopefully, Tripp didn't do Barefeet and Cold rooms at the same time. Thank you Tripp, your Preludes arenot pour un chien. There were a lot of sax & flute jazz pieces popular just before & during Whitney's time. So many, in fact, that we who heard them can never get enough of Tripp. Worth bringing into le present, n'est-ce pas? Oh, well, quoting a fave vocalist of Pete's, You're so far away -- thank you for closing distances by putting things online, for fetching what's beyond any horizon!
Thanks for checking us out!
Man, this is Grammy worthy. From a time when that meant that music was actually good.
I'm with you!
Beautiful rendition, friends! Thank you for this. Stellar performances and arrangement! Sharing!
Our pleasure!
Another top class presentation by the brilliant Peter Sprague ensemble.QUALITY. Peter could you do some more of your solo arrangments as they are so brilliant.?
A little down the way and thanks!
ı guess 50 years old Great melody, lyrics .. and perfect arrangement for these little combi.. Thank you All ...
Thank you too!
15th listen-view; 1st LIKE posted. Greetings from your island fan. It's always a very brave endeavor covering Whitney - Rebecca is up to the challenge, marvelously. My ears are smilin'.
You rock!
Yeah, man. This is beyond fabulous. Love to all.
How nice and maybe also check out this other Aubrey vid that we did: studio.ua-cam.com/users/videov66esxCqc30/edit
Simply Wonderful!
Many thanks!
Two of my favorite Peters play together😀😀👍👍 Awesome!!
Thanks for the visit
Love your arrangements Peter. What a wonderful group of musicians you are. Thank you
How nice and thanks!
Rebecca Jade Your Voiceing and Tone Has Me Physically Feeling This Song! You are AWESOME 🎉❤🌻💐
Rebecca's just that great! Supreme!
this fellow obviously has more favorite things than most of us.
Ahh, that's nice and thanks!
That was magic!
Thanks Steve for the listen. The track we recorded with you the other day is almost ready to go out. Sounding good!