Welcome to the forum, Diana 🙂
I took the liberty of altering the link to your site so that it worked properly. Although it should be in the “pics and clips links” category, it’d be nice if it stayed in the main cat for a while where more viewers look in. I’m a fan of modern jazz so I enjoyed both of the featured YooToob clips immensely.
I checked out “Limehouse Blues” first because, although my basses are strung correctly, I tend to play lefty guitar upside down because that’s what my righty guitarists hand me. There ends my similarity to Jim Monahan, though. Seeing as you know Jim (I assume you did the very good job of camcording the performance), please make sure I receive his cryocooled hands and brain in the event of some unfortunate accident. I’m even willing to pay for some “salad forks cause fatal chest injury” accident to happen if the price is right 😉
My favourite clip, though, is “There is no Greater Love”. There aren’t many modern adaptations of this that I really like. Brits may have seen Amy Winehouse do a predictable cod-Billie Holiday version and (jazzers will beat me up for saying this) I think Sonny Rollins and Oscar Peterson go too much for that 1970s tour de force technical playing that loses the emotion of the song. Raj manages to combine skillful guitar playing without losing sight of the heart in the writing. The more structured clusters actually remind me of Joe Pass, but he also pushes the envelope a bit during the bass and drum solos.
I especially like Raj’s guitar for this song. I’ve got my anorak rustling, but is it a Nocaster with Seymour Duncan pickups? Whatever, I can’t remember seeing many jazz guitarist playing a Tele that sounds like a five-foot-deep Gibson ES. See if you can get him to enlighten me. Also, you ought to stick a song with your vocals onto the Toob.