I Can´t Understand

«I CAN’T UNDERSTAND» – JAY SOTO feat. WaKaNa

Words from Tom Hansen:

In 2009 Jay Soto – an award-winning American guitarist – »released his great album «Mesmerized», and still this is one of my favorite albums. He has performed with some of the biggest names in the smoothjazz industry like Jeff Lorber, Paul Brown, Jeffrey Osborne, Gregg Karukas, Rick Braun, Everette Harp and Eric Darius ++. Jay is a composer, songwriter, producer, pianist, vocalist and music instructor. He has also Landed a #2 national radio hit on US Billboard charts.

So in 2021 he gave out his newest album «On the verge» and the great ballad «Here’s to us» is on that one. Not only a great guitarplayer, but a great singer too! I sent him my new song and together with Mark Bolin Jay wrote the lyrics and recorded it in US.

The great Japanese saxophone player Wakana Inamura has earlier recorded three songs for me – the last one called «Going west» inspired by Mezzoforte and from my album «Inspirations» from last year.

WaKaNa is wellknown for her smoothjazz, soul & RnB music. She has released several solo albums including «Saxess story» from 2018 and «A sunny day» from 2022 with «Go for the sound» with Darreen Rahn & Koo Mr. Saxman. «Fika talk» with Jonathan Fritzen and «Silk». Now she has a new great song – «A new life» with Greg Manning. She has also performed with Brian Simpson.