ATLANTA (1 July 2016): As the eyes of the world focus on Rio de Janeiro this summer, Red River Entertainment released a generous 26-song double disc of authentic Brazilian jazz rhythms and distinctly American R&B grooves on Friday from keyboardist Bob Baldwin entitled The Brazilian-American Soundtrack. The Grammy-nominated artist had a hand in writing twenty tunes […]
MIAMI (24 June 2016): Continuing the legacy of benevolence that began ten years ago when the late music industry legend Henry Stone discovered blind saxophonist Jeff Zavac and featured him on Instrumental Magic, generating over one million dollars in contributions to the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind – the organization that came to the aid […]
SAN FRANCISCO (20 June 2016): Eager to emerge from the “trance” and “lack of imagination” plaguing electric guitarists for the past several decades, Corrado Rustici devoted six years to exploring sounds and expansive musical contexts utilizing only the guitar as his field of experimentation and expression. The imaginative results are the nine songs he composed […]
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND (17 June 2016): There is nothing in the ten new songs that make up Jack Magnet / Woodward Avenue Records’ debut, Global Warming, that will inflame naysayers who deny climate change or its impact on the environment. It’s not that kind of album. Iceland’s popular musical export is on an entirely different mission: to […]
WOODLAND HILLS (16 June 2016): A year before he escaped communism in his native Romania by walking through the mountains of Yugoslavia and into Greece, the seed of Damian Draghici ’s dream was planted when he was just a 17-year-old teenager who snuck into a Bucharest nightclub to watch a set by an American jazz combo. […]
MINNEAPOLIS (6 June 2016): Known for consistently cranking out chart-topping singles that deploy big vibrant pop hooks, contemporary jazz saxophonist Steve Cole conjures a sonic escapade with the hypnotic “Mirage,” the first single from his forthcoming eighth album, Turn It Up, which will be released July 15 by Artistry Music. Radio programmers were instantly spellbound, […]
Sherman Oaks, Calif. (29 April 2016): It’s a musical event worthy of celebration whenever three premier recording artists who individually and collectively have amassed dozens of No. 1 singles, a catalogue of chart-topping albums and a couple of GRAMMY®’s get together to make a record. Putting solo careers on hold in favor of a collaborative outing […]
BOSTON (11 April 2016): Soul-jazz saxophonist Elan Trotman has always taken great pride in his Barbadian roots. A few years ago, the Boston-based artist leapt at the opportunity to showcase the cozy Eastern Caribbean locale by creating and hosting a Columbus Day Weekend jazz festival on the island, inviting a handful of contemporary jazz chart-toppers […]
