Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter, Ben "Jammin’ " Bording has released two hot jazz-infused, Afro-rhythm and blues CDs: Age of Light and Musical Gardens.

Ben has played all over the world as back-up guitarist, singer, and percussionist to Grammy Award winners Queen Ida and Al Rapone, playing zydeco and New Orleans styles of music.

His influences include Django Reinhart, Charlie Christian, Al Dimeola, Pat Metheny, Miles Davis, Jeff Beck, Brazilian, straight ahead, jazz standards, classical rock, blues, zydeco, tango, flamenco, and swing.

Ben is also the owner of a successful design-and-build landscape company. He lives Watsonville, California, with his wife, Emily, an instructor of Ashtanga yoga, and their young daughter. Their gardens and orchards are overflowing with love and work.

It is Ben Bording's goal to raise the vibration musically, horticulturally, and hysterically, wherever he goes.

His second CD, Age of Light, is dedicated to the shift in consciousness across the planet.

SONGS

1 Trust Let Go
2 Age of Light
3 A Tear of Love
4 Circle of Trees
5 Saturasia
6 Zebra Tribe
7 Sufi Oasis

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Musical Gardens runs the gamut from acid jazz to African to East Indian. Some of the best musicians in the Bay Area are featured on this CD.

On naming his first CD, "Musical Gardens", Bording said, " Plants and gardens are like music, they travel across borders very easily and mix culturally just as dance, the culinary arts and architecture."

His CD is dedicated to raising the vibration across all borders.

SONGS

1 Cameroon
2 Fresh Juice
3 Visitation
4 Marissa
5 Apricot Rain
6 Fruitvale Jam
7 Musical Gardens
8 La Hermitage
9 Persimmon Shuffle
10 Gaia Suite

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