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

Premiered in March 2021: This week I re-interpreted the instrumental “Into the Dark" (an old Spanish flamenco rumba of mine) with my friend, and bassist extraordinaire, Dan Minchom. Dan has spent the pandemic studying sound engineering at Berklee, and has built himself a beautiful home studio. Reminds me of myself, back when I was a student at Berklee, recording at home, discovering the fun of producing entire tracks from your living room. In my case, I guess not much has changed... | Jesse Cook

I performed “Alone” on my beloved Conde guitar at the Rose Theatre in Brampton Ontario in May 2012 for my PBS special the following year. I bought this guitar in Madrid years ago from the luthier himself. It is the stradivarius of flamenco guitars. There is something about its tone that is like no other guitar I’ve played. There’s an x-factor. It’s like coffee or tobacco if they could make a sound. - I hope you enjoy this too. I am really looking forward to sharing the experience of concerts wit