Kenyon Carter’s “Game On” wins a Global Music Award even before the album is released

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Atlanta, Georgia (14 August 2015): Triumphant again: saxophonist Kenyon Carter’s “Game On” wins a Global Music Award even before the album is released amidst a buzzing radio single featuring guitarist Chuck Loeb and an inspiring back story A pivotal album inspired by a pivotal, life-changing experience, “Game On” is the apropos title of Kenyon Carter […]

Mariea Antoinette An entrepreneurial “Harp” full of soul

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San Diego, California (6 August 2015): Urban-jazz harpist Mariea Antoinette will release a special edition of her Billboard Top 5 album “Straight from the Harp” on September 25 in conjunction with receiving a Phenomenal Women in Entrepreneurship Award from the National Council of Negro Women. To infiltrate the upper echelon of the Billboard album charts […]

Groove therapy: contemporary jazz singer Carol Duboc keeps her diary open on “Colored Glasses”

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Los Angeles, California (30 July 2015): Her seventh album, due September 18, is bolstered by collaborator Jeff Lorber’s R&B rhythms. On Carol Duboc’s deeply personal 2013 release, “Smile,” the contemporary jazz singer-songwriter opened up in a way that she had never done so before, revealing the pain and heartache involved with dissolving her marriage while […]

Masterfully “Cool”: An album unlike any other by Bob James and Nathan East

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Nashville, Tennessee (7 July 2015): Albums just aren’t made like the way “The New Cool” was made. Yamaha Entertainment Group label president Chris Gero put legendary keyboardist Bob James and master bassist Nathan East in the recording studio, equipped them with state-of-the-art Yamaha gear and gave them free reign to create. Recorded entirely in Nashville, […]

Steven Davis: Swept up in the magic of a classic “Romance”

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Los Angeles, California (24 June 2015): Jazz crooner Steven Davis releases his first big band album, “What Happened To Romance,” a swinging retro original patterned after the Great American Songbook. The promise and thrill of romance brought a Los Angeles crowd and industry types out en masse last Friday night (June 19), packing trendy Molly […]