Jesse Cook - The Rumba Foundation

This week I reinterpreted the music for "Rain", a rumba flamenco ditty from my Frontiers album (2007). Sometimes I wish I had the clarity of hindsight when I originally recorded these songs. I probably would have kept the arrangement simpler. When frontiers came out there were a large number of CDs returned because people complained there was a "problem" with the sound. On the original version I had included an old scratchy record sound under the intro. It only last for a few seconds, but that w

Holy S*#!! After only 6 months, Azul just passed 1.3 million views on YouTube!! Thank you thank you to all of you who have supported my little video. I made “Azul” back in late February, with a little help from my 13 yr old daughter. The video, after getting off to a slow start, has grown and grown in popularity. Today it is leading the charge, introducing my music to new fans around the world. YouTube informs me that the greatest love for this video comes from Morocco, Algeria, Russia, and Fran