John Lee Sanders, a talented multiple award-winning US composer, singer, lyricist, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist won a 2007 Emmy nomination, German Music Critics Award, 2014 Best Blues Recording, and 2014 San Francisco Drama Critics Award, among others. Credits include 20th Century Fox, Toyota, Nissan, Walmart, Apple, HBO, CBS, PBS, BBC Radio, and CBC Radio. He has also worked with icons like Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Chuck Berry, Hal David, and Oscar-winning composers Paul Williams, Randy Newman, and Alan and Marilyn Bergman.
Sparse piano vocal, with gorgeous melody, bittersweet past, and hopeful future, Very introspective in the character of Billy Joel, as in "And So It Goes" It's up to me, could mean many things, Making a better life ahead, a new relationship, moving on, and accepting whatever challenges that will be. Male Vocals, Pop, Piano Pop
Laid back cool jazz swing tinkling piano melancholy sexy Minor bittersweet, night mood cocktail hour sweet soulful, string, fretless bass lounge dark, darkness Soulful, longing lonely sexy dark cool wondering waiting, Instrumental, Jazz, Dramatic Jazz Piano
Beautiful Pop Ballad, Romantic, Asking for forgiveness in rebuilding a broken relationship. Piano male vocal with soaring strings and French Horns, Very Elton Influenced vocal, piano and arrangement. Originally written for a soap opera, but I retain full rights for licensing. Male Vocals
Sexy male Vocal, with delta blues blues acoustic guitar, Keb Mo, Robert Johnson, Taj Mahal, Rural Mississippi, cotton Fields, Louisiana, Back Porch, Cajun, Texas, Roadhouse, Country, Americana, backwoods melancholy, fingerstyle, Fingerpicking, back porch, Mississippi John Hurt, Doc Watson, Male Vocals, Blues, Country Blues
18th century Mozart meets modern Urban Uptown romance with virtuoso Violinist, harp piano, smooth jazz sax, and rhythm Section in this. Elegant, modern sophistication, Dave Koz, Kenny G, Boney James Fashion wine champagne cafe/Dinner party/ cafe bohema Seductive sexy exquisite, Gerald Albright, Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Aria Porgi Amor from Marriage of Figaro, virtuoso Violinist, harp piano, smooth jazz sax, and rhythm Section in this 18th century Vienna meets modern Urban Uptown romance. Elegant, modern sophistication, Dave Koz, Kenny G, Boney James Fashion wine champagne cafe/Dinner party/ cafe bohemia, Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
18th century Mozart meets modern Urban Uptown romance with virtuoso Violinist, harp piano, smooth jazz sax, and rhythm Section in this. Elegant, modern sophistication, Dave Koz, Kenny G, Boney James Fashion wine champagne cafe/Dinner party/ cafe bohema Seductive sexy exquisite, Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
18th century Mozart meets modern Urban Uptown romance with Flamenco guitar, latin rhythm harp piano, smooth jazz flute Gypsy Portugal Seville. Elegant, modern sophistication, Earl Klugh, Paco De Lucia, Spain, tapas, Fashion wine champagne cafe/Dinner party/ cafe bohema Seductive sexy exquisite, Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Set the Holidays Swinging, with this big band medley of the Nutcracker Suite, with all the bells and whistles. Sugar Plum Fairies, Sugar Plum Fairy Arabian dancers Russian Ballet, Glockenspiel, flutes, Harp, trumpet Toy soldiers, Children fantasy Navidad Weinacht, classical jazzy jazz Ballerina, Instrumental, Christmas, Xmas Jazz Ens., Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Heavy Funk R&B New Orleans Drums in the style of the Meters, Jon Cleary, Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, Neville Brothers, Mardi Gras, Carnival, Piano, Gutsy Blues Soulful vocals syncopation, urban, black, ghetto Hip tower of Power, Male Vocals, Blues, Modern Electric Blues
One of Wagner's most famous Pieces, used in the helicopter scene, in Apocalypse Now, edgy epic, bold, dark, doomsday,, Instrumental, Classical, Romantic, Richard Wagner
Country Blues Male vocal, freedom traveling trains downhome blues harmonica pedal steel guitars saxes wailing in the night open highway drifter hobo Johnny Cash Willie Nelson, Chris Stapleton, Outlaw, Waylon Jennings, ballsy emotional gutsy sensitive lonesome freight amtrak adventure going it alone, Instrumental, Blues, Country Blues
18th century Mozart fusion modern Urban Uptown romance African Voices Rhythms virtuoso Violinist, harp piano, smooth jazz sax, and rhythm Section in this. Elegant, modern sophistication, Dave Koz, Kenny G, Boney James Fashion wine champagne cafe/Dinner party/ cafe bohema Seductive sexy exquisite,, Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
18th century Mozart recognized melody, set modern Urban Uptown samba rhythm with Smooth jazz star, Jeff Linsky, on Nylon String Guitar. Elegant, modern sophistication, Elegant Earl Klugh, Kenny G, Fashion wine champagne cafe/Dinner party/ cafe bohema Seductive sexy, Instrumental, Jazz, Latin Jazz, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Acoustic Male Vocal Waltz, very John Lennon Beatles "Rubber Soul" influenced, Nylon string guitar, brushes, Cello, 2 part harmony, Introspective. Searching for answers in life as we age, as parents, or becoming an adult, Using Swimming in unchartered territories, as a metaphor, trying not to drown, Instrumental, Pop, Beatles-Pop
Retro Country medium Tempo Ballad, Desert Small Town vibe, Spanish Guitar, Low Spaghetti Western Telecaster, think Crazy Heart, Willie Nelson, Tex Mex, El Paso, Marty Robbins, Texas, Southwest, Americana, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Outlaw, Breakup, Lone Wolf, Juke Box, Honkey Tonk, Male Vocals, Country, Country Ballads
Innocent dreamy pop male vocal with orchestra Disney romance adventure Princess Aladdin Family Beauty & the Beast, Frozen, Little Mermaid, Fantasy, Fairy Tale, Shooting Star, Ratatouille, Pixar, longing, dreamy, wishful, Fairy Godmother, Cinderella, forlorn, hope, Prayer, wishing Well, young love,, Male Vocals, Dramatic, Tender music
Progressive Pop Jazz influences Steely Dan Doobie Brothers Michael McDonald, Donald Fagan Keyboards Guitars, Funk, George Benson, Al Jarreau, Smooth Soul, Smooth Jazz, Big City Uptown Sophisticated pop, Elegant cultured New York City jazz rock fusion visionaries, Male Vocals, Rock, Roots Rock
Shuffle Blues band with large funky horn section in the style of Ray Charles, Dr. John, New Orleans Memphis Second Line Male vocal saxophones trumpet Trombone dixieland Piano song about about a traveling blues road show, Male Vocals, Blues, Jump Blues
Sexy Male Blues Vocal, Guitar, Bass, Drums Piano Hammond Organ, Gospel influenced Ray Charles, Bonnie Raitt, Elton John, Billy Preston, Aretha Franklin, Soul, Southern, New Orleans, Juke Joint, Nightclub, BB King, Leon Russell, Buddy Guy, Joe Cocker, Etta James, Chicago Blues, Texas Blues,, Male Vocals, Blues, Modern Electric Blues
Funky Downhome New Orleans Groove, think Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt, Jon Cleary, Leon Russell, Slide Guitar, Greasy, Bourbon Street, Cajun, Great Background Vocals, Piano, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, Male Vocals, Blues, Delta Blues
Horn Section, 3 tenor saxes, Bari, Trumpet Tempo 92 BPM Pop, Jazz, New York, Steely Dan, Smooth Jazz, Cool Jazz, Recorded to tempo, Easily cut and paste to your track, stabs, hits, great marking ends and beginnings of scenes for episodic television or films or TV commercials. Brass,
sweet and bluesy, Chromatic Harmonica, Pedal Steel, piano, and other soundscapes. Americana blues country landscape of big city scenes, rural southern skies. dramatic soul searching, longing to explore a new frontier, Harp invokes Toots Thielemans from Midnight Cowboy, Bruce Hornsby inspired piano, Instrumental, Americana, Americana
Big Orchestral Funky Retro TV Movie Theme, invoking images of a Boxing movie montage, 70s, The main event, Blaxploitation films, Super bad, Disco, Urban, tough guy, pimps, hookers, Undercover Hip Cops, Soul Power, tribute to the great Rocky Balboa soundtrack from Bill Conti,, Instrumental, Action, Orchestral Action