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  1. 29 June 2018Urban-jazz guitarist Dee Brown remembers his late fiancée with songs of love and joySOUTHFIELD (22 June 2018): Two years ago, soul-jazz guitarist dee Brown was preparing for a summer wedding to his fiancée, gospel singer Shaunia Edwards. When her young life was tragically cut short by an unexpected illness, he was devastated, leaning on his strong faith to endure. Shifting his mindset from a mourning period during which he sought meaning by asking “Why?” to a perspective of positivity, Brown turned to writing, honoring the sweet, lasting memories of Edwards and their romance by composing lively, intimate and playful stories of love, laughter and hope. He shares his fond remembrances via the ten new songs that constitute his fourth album, “Remembering You,” his second release for Innervision Records.Read more
  2. 26 June 2018Keyboardist David Garfield boxes himself into a jamLOS ANGELES (26 June 2018): Indulging his passion for R&B-pop on the second volume of his five-part, multi-genre “Outside the Box” series, keyboardist David Garfield will release “Jammin’ Outside the Box” on July 20 on Creatchy Records. Like the first disc, the straight-ahead jazz exploration “Jazz Outside the Box,” Garfield produced, arranged and played piano, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer electric piano and synthesizers on a carefully-selected set list with purposefully-chosen collaborators that spotlights sessions with seminal icons, Grammy winners, chart-toppers and prominent players. Garfield has a personal connection and meaningful history with every song and each musician he selected for the groove rich, soul-jazz album, crucial elements that position the ambitious “Outside the Box” anthology towards becoming an enduring, career-capping collection.Read more
  3. 7 June 2018Saxophonist Michael Paulo calls upon friends to celebrate “Beautiful Day”MENIFEE (7 June 2018): From beginning to end, saxophonist Michael Paulo’s “Beautiful Day,” is a celebration of love, friendship and the Aloha spirit. Opening with the title track inspired by the joyous news that he was going to become a grandfather and closing with the timeless Carole King ode to friendship, “You’ve Got A Friend,” Paulo’s eleventh solo disc dropped on the Apaulo Productions imprint. The collection is comprised of eight Paulo compositions and five modern classics produced by Paulo with two tracks helmed by two-time Grammy winner Paul Brown. The first single presently collecting radio spins and playlist adds spotlights guitarist Ray Parker Jr. on the aptly titled “Who You Gonna Call?”Read more
  4. 5 April 2018No Lie: Jazz/R&B keyboardist David Garfield hits the country chartsLOS ANGELES (5 April 2018): There is no telling where your career will take you when it spans five decades, but jazz/R&B keyboardist David Garfield never imagined that he’d hit the country charts let alone for a song that he wrote with Motown icon Smokey Robinson. “I Lied,” the power pop ballad that they penned, has reached No. 60 on the Music Row singles chart and gained New & Active status on the Billboard Indicator chart. The accompanying video for the track featuring vocalist J. Paris has been added to the playlist at the Heartland Network, “the beating pulse of country music for the nation” reaching over 22 million households.Read more
  5. 20 March 2018Feeling It: Guitarist Adam Hawley’s second album, “Double Vision” drops Friday as the first single, “Can You Feel It?,” rockets into the Billboard Top 10LOS ANGELES (20 March 2018): When your debut album scores three Billboard No. 1 singles, including the longest running No. 1 single of the year, and helps you win two Debut Artist of the Year titles, your priority becomes avoiding a sophomore slump. That was guitarist Adam Hawley’s mindset as he entered the recording studio to construct “Double Vision,” his Kalimba Records disc that drops on Friday.Read more
  6. 1 March 2018Keyboardist David Garfield opens the box with “Jazz”LOS ANGELES (1 March 2018): Keyboardist David Garfield was nineteen when he got his start playing alongside influential bebop jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. But opportunities came quickly for him in contemporary jazz as well as in R&B and pop, which guided the direction of his now five-decade career away from his roots. Straight-ahead jazz has remained in his core and he’s longed to return “home” thus to launch his prolific multi-volume, multi-genre “Outside the Box” collection, Garfield will drop his first straight-ahead jazz album, “Jazz Outside the Box,” on March 23 via his Creatchy Records label.Read more
  7. 15 February 2018Inside outsider David Garfield seizes the opportunity to create “Outside the Box”LOS ANGELES (15 February 2018): Four decades into an accomplished career that has seen him record and tour with many of the brightest stars in the contemporary jazz, R&B and pop galaxies as well as front his own bands and solo albums, keyboardist-songwriter-producer-arranger David Garfield still feels like an outsider.Read more
  8. 30 January 2018Jazz Holdouts holding out until “Morning”JUPITER (30 January 2018): From night until morning, Jazz Holdouts frontmen Alan Palanker and Lou Cortelezzi have been toiling away in the studio diligently conceiving ultramodern electronic soundscapes to pair with their enticing keyboard and saxophone melodies. Last summer, they came up with a sensual blend of throbbing house music, nocturnal chill nuances and steamy contemporary jazz harmonies on a cut titled “Summer Nights,” which went No. 1 on the Billboard and Mediabase charts. Going downtempo for a laidback oeuvre of sunrise seduction, the duo wrote and produced “Morning Breeze,” the follow-up single that began going for radio playlist adds on Monday.Read more
  9. 11 January 2018Urban-jazz bassist Darryl Williams shows he’s got staying power on new singleTEMECULA (11 January 2018): It took ten years for urban-jazz bass player Darryl Williams to write, record and release “Here to Stay,” his Billboard top 10 single and the title track to his second album. This week’s release of the follow-up single, “Do You Remember,” proves that he doesn’t plan to go away anytime soon. Plucking rubbery basslines on piccolo and electric basses on the slick jazz-funk energizer that he wrote and produced, Williams is joined on the dancefloor filler by chart-toppers Michael Lington (saxophone) and Adam Hawley (guitarist).Read more
  10. 23 October 2017Grammy® nominations “Possible” for R&B-jazz singer-songwriter Selina Albright’s “Conversations”FRISCO (23 October 2017): Being considered in four preliminary Grammy categories for her debut album, “Conversations,” in her first year as a NARAS voter provided smooth soul singer-songwriter Selina Albright an entirely new perspective about what her father, contemporary jazz saxophone giant and eight-time Grammy nominee Gerald Albright, experienced while she was growing up.Read more
  11. 9 October 2017Saxophonist Justin Young’s “Blue Soul” powered by “High Definition”SEATTLE (9 October 2017): Justin Young is hungry. The energetic and enthusiastic saxophonist is all about hustle and hard work. For over a decade, he’s put out quality soul-jazz albums, but his forthcoming disc, “Blue Soul,” captures an artist hitting his stride on the cusp of a major breakthrough. Mining his Detroit roots, Young’s fourth album, due November 17 via JustnTime Records, features a dozen new songs recorded live in the studio with premier musicians, producers and songwriting collaborators. Paving the way for the collection is the new single, “High Definition,” a vibrant R&B/pop confection just shipped to radio stations, a tune that Young penned with fellow soul-jazz saxman Jackiem Joyner and keyboardist Matt Godina.Read more
  12. 18 September 2017Sarah Hammer hangs up the bike and pursues coachingCOLORADO SPRINGS (18 September 2017): The winner of four Olympic medals, eight UCI Track Cycling World Championships and 15 UCI Track Cycling World Championships medals while setting two world records in the process, Sarah Hammer has decided to hang up her racing wheels. The three-time Olympian and one of America’s most-accomplished cyclists ever will now ply her wisdom and experience along with an unrivaled focus, intensity and work ethic into developing the next world and Olympic champions as the Director of Coaching at Performance United, the elite training facility in Colorado Springs that she founded with her coach and husband, Andy Sparks.Read more
  13. 13 September 2017Here Comes Trouble: Pop singer Stephanie K flips the script on “Troublemaker,” her debut EP due October 20, prefaced by the single, “Tonight.”DETROIT (13 September 2017): Award-winning singer-songwriter Stephanie K offers no apologies, warnings or explanations for taking control and asserting her will on “Troublemaker,” her five-song debut EP that will be released October 20 by Woodward Avenue Records. Setting the stage for the EP is “Tonight,” a pulsing, high-energy electronic club banger written and produced by Trend Def aka the team of Mike Gonsolin and Nick Nittoli. Stephanie wrote the rest of the set with four-time Grammy winner Michael J. Powell (Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight) who produced the tracks.Read more
  14. 18 August 2017Sax-vocalist Michael J. Thomas is “Driven” to compete with an upbeat and diverse passion projectDESTIN (18 August 2017): No sophomore slump for contemporary jazz-pop artist Michael J. Thomas, who released his second album, “Driven,” on Friday on the Harbor Breeze Records imprint. The ten-song set burst out of the gate jolted by a wave of national airplay for the first single, “Baby Coffee,” earning Billboard most-added honors in its debut week followed by an add at SiriusXM’s Watercolors, leading the saxophonist-vocalist to sign a distribution deal for the project with Perry Music Group/Sony Music.Read more
  15. 10 July 2017Scores Scores of jazz fans planning a summer fling in CancunAGOURA HILLS (10 July 2017): With more than a decade of planning music vacation experiences in alluring locales on land and at sea around the world, it should come as no surprise that in his second full year at the helm, Warren Hill has already doubled the number of festivalgoers preparing to end summer with a trek to his Cancun Jazz Festival at the five-star Hard Rock Hotel in Riviera Maya, Mexico over Labor Day Weekend (August 31-September 3, 2017).Read more
  16. 15 June 2017Award-winning jazz guitarist Frank Piombo follows his dream to “Keep It Movin’”VERONA (15 June 2017): It’s been a steady upward trajectory for jazz guitarist Frank Piombo ever since he issued his debut album, “Smooth Reminiscence,” independently in 2010. The New Jersey-based musician sold enough units to be ReverbNation’s No. 1 jazz artist in the Garden State for three straight years while cultivating a growing fan base in the New York Metropolitan area via his live performances. This past April, he hit the red carpet in Hollywood and went home with three statues from the Indie Music Channel Awards for three tracks from his upcoming fourth album, “Keep It Movin’,” providing the perfect launch pad for the new set. Piombo wrote six songs for the disc arriving August 4, and produced and arranged the record with Joe Arminio and Tom Jacobsen.Read more
  17. 8 May 2017Fatherhood has put saxophonist Jackiem Joyner in a funky moodSHERMAN OAKS (8 May 2017): Delivering on his promise to “Evolve,” the title of Jackiem Joyner’s last soul-jazz album, the saxophonist became a father since his 2014 release, an elation-inducing experience that informs the music he wrote and produced for his new Artistry Music set, “Main Street Beat,” due June 30. The first single from the funky, dance inspiring, Motown-influenced session that will be shipped to radio this month is the exultant “Trinity,” named for Joyner’s first child whose presence on the track is voiced by Steve Oliver’s incandescent acoustic guitar.Read more
  18. 24 April 2017Plugged In: Saxophonist Elan Trotman adds EDM beats to his Caribbean-jazz fusionBOSTON (24 April 2017): Saxophonist Elan Trotman is unwavering in his committed to wave the flag high for Caribbean music, but after releasing six soul-jazz albums and more than ten chart-topping singles that made him a permanent fixture on radio playlists, the Barbados native is “shaking it up” by going electronic on “Electro Sax,” his seventh outing which was released last Friday (April 21) by Island Muzik Productions.Read more
  19. 11 April 2017Guitarist Blake Aaron is Sirius about making it a “VIVID” springALISO VIEJO (11 April 2017): Guitarist Blake Aaron has been featured multiple times on SiriusXM over the past week as part of Jazz Appreciation Month just as his vibrant new single, “VIVID,” is preparing to bloom brightly. The third single issued in advance of his upcoming “Color and Passion” album, Aaron wrote and produced the multihued bouquet of invigorating instrumental dance music, power pop horns and glossy R&B grooves that surround fragrant stems of fresh electric jazz guitar flourishes. On the way to radio stations now with an April 24 playlist add date, the perfectly-timed spring fling should happily satiate listeners until Blake’s sixth album streets this fall on Innervision Records.Read more
  20. 28 March 2017Soil & “Pimp” Sessions continues their Death Jazz attack via “Black Track”NEW YORK CITY (March 28, 2017): Jazz won’t know what hit it. The artistic purveyors of a super intense, high-voltage brand of aggressive alternative jazz the band dubbed “Death Jazz,” Soil & “Pimp” Sessions returns to the U.S. marketplace on April 14 with the release of their tenth album, “Black Track,” which will be issued on the Red River Entertainment imprint with distribution via BFD/Sony RED. The six-piece Japanese outfit rips, roars and rages through twelve piping-hot new tunes they penned for the occasion that they produced featuring a unique mélange of screaming and careening jazz rhythms, club-banging hip-hop beats, retro neo soul grooves and rampaging punk rock & roll jams.Read more
  21. 15 March 2017Julia Fordham uses “The Language of Love” to romance and seduceLOS ANGELES (15 March 2017): According to singer-songwriter Julia Fordham, Ella Fitzgerald set the standard when it comes to tackling standards so she had to turn to other source material for her forthcoming collection, “The Language of Love,” which will receive its U.S. and European release on April 14 from Red River Entertainment with distribution via BFD/Sony RED.Read more
  22. 30 January 2017Therapeutic “Conversations”: Smooth soul singer Selina Albright comfortable and confident enough to “Eat Something”FRISCO (30 January 2017): While a song about the joy of packing on a few pounds and a widening booty may seem contrary to the messages bombarding the popular music and media landscapes, smooth soul singer Selina Albright’s “Eat Something” is instantly resonating with fans and radio programmers, including SiriusXM Watercolors’ Dave Koz Lounge, which will feature the song on the February 5 national broadcast. The mid-tempo adult R&B song bolstered by guitarist Kay-Ta Matsuno’s crafty touch is the lead single from Albright’s first full-length album, the very personal “Conversations,” which will be released March 17 by Golden Rays Music with preorders beginning February 1 on iTunes.Read more
  23. 23 January 2017It’s “3 Minutes to Midnight” and Lawson Rollins has “Island Time” on his mindSAN FRANCISCO (23 January 2017): Award-winning world music guitarist Lawson Rollins has the Billboard, America’s Music Charts and Groove Jazz Music charts under the hypnotic spell of his new single, “Island Time,” the first cut taken from his seventh album, “3 Minutes to Midnight,” which was released last Friday (January 20) by Infinita Records. Radio programmers at influential national outlets, including SiriusXM’s Watercolors and Broadcast Architecture, have made the seductive waltz paced by Rollins’ beguiling fingerstyle nylon guitar come-ons one of the “most added” and “most played” new singles on the first two charts published in 2017. Another composition appearing on the multicultural and multi-genre collection written by Rollins, the mystical meditation “Eternal,” began receiving airplay last month on the nationally-syndicated public radio program Echoes. “3 Minutes to Midnight” wasted no time climbing into the top 20 of the iTunes world music album sales chart.Read more
  24. 8 December 2016“Wrap This!” delivers a Grammy nomination to 4-time Grammy winner Gordon GoodwinLOS ANGELES (8 December 2016): Gordon Goodwin, the most decorated big band leader in the 21st century, asked “Do You Hear What I Hear?” and on Tuesday, NARAS voters answered affirmatively by bestowing another Grammy nomination upon the four-time Grammy winner. The 21st Grammy nomination of his distinguished career, Goodwin, who also has three Emmy wins, received the nod in the Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals category for his crafty work on the time-honored Christmas classic “Do You Hear What I Hear?” that features guest vocals from ten-time Grammy winners Take 6. The track appears on Goodwin’s Big Phat Band’s “A Big Phat Christmas – Wrap This!” album, which was released on the Music of Content label.Read more
  25. 15 November 2016A Week To Reminisce About For Jazz Fusion Guitarist Tyler ReeseNASHVILLE (15 November 2016): Guitarist Tyler Reese has been releasing jazz-rock records since he was 15, but the now 23-year-year-old finally reached Billboard’s Top 5, which is where his newly-released Reminiscence debuted on the contemporary jazz albums chart. News of the No. 5 chart entry opened a memorable week for the guitar prodigy whose new collection, produced by Jeff Silverman (Rick Springfield, Hiroshima, The Allman Brothers Band, Tim Weisberg) and Reese, is up for two trophies at Thursday’s Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Reese will end the week back home on Sunday night in Fredericksburg, Virginia playing the first of two local concert dates to celebrate the release of the record comprised entirely of his original jazz fusion compositions and showcases his guitar artistry that once scored him an invite to play for and jam with Prince at Paisley Park.Read more
  26. 1 November 2016Lawson Rollins Muses Time On 3 Minutes to MidnightSAN FRANCISCO (1 November 2016): Three minutes to midnight. Time is lapsing. What would you do with the final moments of your day? Award-winning world beat guitarist Lawson Rollins pondered that question as he entered the recording studio to craft his seventh album, “3 Minutes to Midnight,” which will be released on January 20 via the Infinita Records label. Focusing on “the urgency of the moment, the exhilaration of the speed of sound, the poignancy of the remains of the day and the mystical power of the number three,” Rollins wrote a dozen multicultural compositions – all in the three minute range and illuminated by his prodigious fingerstyle guitar play. The recording is stripped down, punchy and concise, a radical departure for the Billboard chart-topping artist known for creating lavishly produced and elaborately-constructed tracks that are at least twice as long.Read more
  27. 28 October 2016Anna Danes Meets First National Breast Cancer Awareness Month As A Survivor.SOLANA BEACH (28 October 2016): National Breast Cancer Awareness Month has an entirely new meaning this year for jazz singer Anna Danes. Her life turned in an instant three months ago when she was diagnosed with the disease. When the positive-mind chanteuse steps onto the Jazz on Cedros stage Friday night in Solana Beach, California at a launch party concert in support of her empowering “Find Your Wings” album released that day (and October 30 on iTunes) by DLG Records, she does so knowing how lucky she is. Danes will perform tracks from the intimate acoustic jazz collection of standards and original love songs produced by Dave Darling surrounded by loved ones and supportive people in her life.Read more
  28. 10 October 2016Jonny Zywiciel Donates Proceeds From New Single To Winehouse FoundationSAN FRANCISCO (10 October 2016): While struggling to recover from shattered illusions after his first love faded out, singer-songwriter Jonny Zywiciel (pronounced “Zuh-witch-ul”) wrote an album of intimate and soulful pop/rock tunes that he describes as a “mixtape outlining the last three years of my life.” Instead of wallowing in despair, the 23-year-old troubadour channeled his energy in a positive, musical direction with the aim of inspiring and uplifting others. The aptly-named collection, Onward & Upward, which will be released by the San Francisco-based artist on November 4, is led by the first single, “Time To Heal,” written as a message of hope in response to crises that several close friends had been battling: overcoming drug addiction, fighting cancer and confronting other seemingly insurmountable hardships. Zywiciel will donate all the proceeds from the single’s sales to the Amy Winehouse Foundation whose mission is to support and empower disadvantaged and at-risk children and young adults through music therapy and music education. The accompanying “Time To Heal” video ( http://jonnyzmusic.com/time-to-heal ) has already generated over 25,000 views on YouTube and Facebook.Read more
  29. 30 September 2016Paul Brown Follows His Heart “Back” To His RootsSHERMAN OAKS (30 September 2016): Paul Brown has had the Midas touch since the early ‘90s when he began producing some of the biggest contemporary jazz hits and definitive chart-topping albums by the brightest urban-jazz stars in the galaxy, amassing more than 60 Billboard No. 1 singles. In the past twelve years, the guitarist stepped forward as an artist in his own right, consistently cranking out hits of his own. Although his formative recordings established the sound of the smoother side of contemporary jazz for more than two decades, Brown yearned to reconnect with his first musical passion: the blues. On Friday, Woodward Avenue Records issued his eighth solo collection, One Way Back, a self-produced ten-track outing on which he followed his heart back to his blues roots.Read more
  30. 23 September 2016Marc Antoine Returns With A Diverse Outing At Laguna BeachLaguna Beach, Calif. (23 September 2016): The four-year gap between albums for global guitarist Marc Antoine was spent fighting for his life and career as well as moving his family from their longtime home in Spain to the Southern California coast. Having conquered two major health challenges – one life-threatening and one career-threatening – and resettled into the placid enclave of Laguna Beach, the Paris-born, classically-trained hit-maker resumes his recording career Friday with the release of his Woodward Avenue Records debut, “Laguna Beach.” The title cut, which preceded the celebratory set of Antoine’s signature classical acoustic and nylon-string guitar melodies, quixotic gypsy jazz forays, brassy funk grooves and sultry Latin, Brazilian and Cuban rhythms, is already No. 5 on the Billboard songs chart, offering a last gasp of summer.Read more
  31. 26 August 2016Resilient Jazz Singer Anna Danes Finds Her WingsSAN DIEGO (24 August 2016): It was against all odds that Anna Danes found herself standing in Capitol Records Studio A, in front of the same microphone used by her role models, Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, recording an a cappella song that she wrote for her sophomore album. In the dimly lit studio in the heart of Hollywood, the woman who escaped communist Poland as a child and overcame the pain and loneliness of a loveless marriage by discovering her voice just three years ago poured her broken heart into the intimate album closer, “I Love You,” as producer Dave Darling sat spellbound at the recording console. In the famed studio during sessions financed by selling a car, Danes shared her deeply personal tales of love and loss through the six acoustic jazz songs that she wrote for “Find Your Wings,” the DLG Records disc scheduled for release on October 14 that is completed by five standards and a stunning interpretation of blues singer Janiva Magness’ “When You Were My King.”Read more
  32. 16 August 2016Gordon Goodwin & Little Phat Band Open Up On An Elusive ManLOS ANGELES (16 August 2016): Having amassed 20 Grammy nominations, four statues and three Emmy wins, Gordon Goodwin is the most decorated big band leader in the 21st century. After all six of his Big Phat Band albums have garnered Grammy nominations or wins, he’s not elusive about why he trimmed his large 18-piece ensemble for an outing as the 8-member Little Phat Band, which will release their debut album, “An Elusive Man,” on September 9 via the Music of Content label.Read more
  33. 27 July 2016Darren Barrett Pays Tribute To The Music Of Amy WinehouseBOSTON (27 July 2016): Trumpeter Darren Barrett, winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, was flipping through cable television channels while taking a break from a recording session when he stumbled upon a live concert by Amy Winehouse. He had heard the buzz about the unconventional British artist, but hadn’t heard any of her music until that moment. The musician of Jamaican descent with a proclivity for incorporating reggae into his neo-bop jazz recordings was instantly struck by the way the rhythm & soul singer-songwriter infused reggae into her throwback tracks.Read more
  34. 21 July 2016Award-winning Jazz Chanteuse Robin Barnes Releases Songbird Sessions on August 26NEW ORLEANS (21 July 2016): Having conquered hearts locally and captured media acclaim as “The Songbird of New Orleans,” award-winning jazz singer Robin Barnes is preparing to spread her soulful song beyond The Big Easy. On August 26, the powerfully-voiced siren who was named the Favorite New Orleans Musician earlier this year by New Orleans Magazine will issue her second EP, Songbird Sessions, on the Rhythm Elevation Records label. Barnes and bassist Pat Casey produced the intimate five-song acoustic jazz date of standards and gems made famous by her seminal influences such as New Orleans icons Allen Toussaint and Irma Thomas. The first track being serviced to radio is Barnes’s smoldering and sultry rendition of Thomas’s “Ruler of My Heart.”Read more
  35. 15 July 2016Steve Cole Single “Mirage” Poised To Top Billboard ChartNORFOLK (15 July 2016): When saxman Steve Cole takes the stage Friday night at the Norfolk Waterfront Jazz Festival in Norfolk, Virginia, he will celebrate the release of his eighth album, “Turn It Up,” while on the precipice of adding another No. 1 Billboard single to his burgeoning catalogue of hits. The Artistry Music release produced by long-time Cole collaborator David Mann arrives Friday as the first single, the riveting aural oeuvre “Mirage,” holds the second spot ready to claim the peak position from Cole’s Sax Pack colleague Marcus Anderson.Read more
  36. 1 July 2016Bob Baldwin Goes For Olympic Gold With The Brazilian-American SoundtrackATLANTA (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 for the collection that he produced in two movements, Movement I: Rio-Ipanema and Movement II: New York, that were recorded in Rio, New York City and Atlanta over a three-year period. The first single that will be serviced to radio stations for airplay is the pulsating club music meets sultry Latin music blend “Ipanema Fusion.”Read more
  37. 24 June 2016Lemon Aid: Henry Stone Music Album Instrumental Magic 2 To Benefit Lighthouse For The BlindMIAMI (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 of the renowned record pioneer when he lost his vision in his later years – Henry Stone Music released the second collection on Friday. Instrumental Magic 2, showcasing Zavac with the Lemon City Rhythm Section and produced by Stone’s son, Joe Stone, and guitarist Aaron Fishbein, spotlights the saxman rendering soul-jazz interpretations of ten hits written or made classic by sightless artists including Stevie Wonder, Ronnie Milsap, Jose Feliciano and Ray Charles, the last of whom was first recorded by Henry Stone in the 1950s.Read more
  38. 20 June 2016Imagineer Corrado Rustici Explores Expressive Guitar Sonicscapes On AHAMSAN 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 that together form Aham, an audacious collection of ambient fusion, progressive jazz, ethereal rock, moody pop, and dramatic classical performed and produced by Rustici set for release in the U.S. on July 15.Read more
  39. 6 June 2016Steve Cole Previews New Album With Mesmerizing “Mirage”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, making the track from the David Mann-produced set of R&B grooves and soul-powered sojourns the No. 1 most added single on the Billboard BDS chart.Read more
  40. 29 April 2016Home Cooking Is Winning Recipe For Super Trio B.W.B.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 as a trio known as B.W.B. for only the third time in 14 years, trumpeter Rick Braun, saxophonist Kirk Whalum and guitarist Norman Brown released a self-titled disc on the Artistry Music label last Friday (April 22). This home-cooked feast of Memphis soul, dance party jazz and garage band funk is their first set comprised entirely of original songs written by the powerhouse combo and produced by Braun. “BWB” quickly stormed up to No. 3 on the Billboard singles chart and is virtually a lock to take possession of the top spot.Read more
  41. 24 March 2016Shannon Bryant “Light” captures hearts and mindsSAN FRANCISCO (24 March 2016): Even before Shannon Bryant “Light” was released, CBC Radio Canada’s “Fresh Air” made the ten-song singer-songwriter session mixed by multiple GRAMMY® winner Joe Chiccarelli (Jason Mraz, Alanis Morissette, U2, Elton John, Frank Zappa) a “Top Pick” for February. Midwest Record hailed the intimate collection issued on the Belle Estrela Music label as “one of the best confessional singer/songwriter sets,” a sentiment echoed by Exclusive Magazine’s emphatic confirmation “Yep, this album of tracks completely written and produced by Shannon Bryant is just that damn good.”Read more
  42. 23 March 2016Super trio B.W.B. is in the mood to party Memphis styleSHERMAN OAKS, CALIF. (23 March 2016): You can almost smell the tangy barbecue sauce dripping from the forthcoming self titled album B.W.B. by chart-topping trio B.W.B., who throw down like a sweaty garage band at a Memphis backyard house party on their debut for the Artistry Music label arriving April 22. It’s the first time the band made up of GRAMMY® winners Norman Brown (guitar, vocals) and Kirk Whalum (saxophone, flute, vocals) and Rick Braun (trumpet, flugelhorn, valve trombone, vocals) cooked up a festive, sticky-fingered feast of ten new contemporary jazz, R&B, soul and funk joints. Braun produced the session in his suburban Los Angeles-area home studio where the band moved in with their families and lived together for an entire week. The result is a collaborative disc celebrating brotherhood and live music. The tantalizing title track is the first radio cut, which enters Billboard’s Top 10 on next week’s singles chart and appears to be ticketed for the top spot.Read more
  43. 24 February 2016Hitman Darren Rahn seeks maximum impact with “Sonic Boom”DENVER (24 February 2016): The saxophonist’s fifth album, due March 4, will have an exclusive world premiere on February 27; dynamic first single, “D-Luxe,” explodes onto radio playlists.Read more
  44. 17 February 2016Anne Walsh: “Brand New” set to blossom with the arrival of springLONG BEACH (17 February 2016):Read more
  45. 10 February 2016Matt Von Roderick Bringing “Hero’s Journey” to lifeLOS ANGELES (10 February 2016): Alternative jazz alchemist Matt Von Roderick to perform his new album live at an immersive multimedia concert production at The Sayers Club in Hollywood on March 10 & 17.Read more
  46. 13 January 2016Shannon Bryant shines a philosophical “Light” on new album, due February 26San Francisco, CA. (13 January 2016):Read more
  47. 11 December 2015Matt Von Roderick boldly embarks on a transcendent “Hero’s Journey”LOS ANGELES, Calif. (11 December 2015): Experimental pop trumpeter-rapper, Matt Von Roderick, audacious album arrives digitally Friday exclusively on BandcampRead more
  48. 9 December 2015Jazz keyboardist Mark Etheredge “Connected,” due February 26Overcoming connectivity issues: jazz keyboardist Mark Etheredge connects with GRAMMY®-winning producer Paul Brown to create “Connected,” due February 26.Read more
  49. 1 December 2015Guitarist Rob Tardik to celebrate “Moments” back home in TorontoTORONTO, Ontario (December 1, 2015): Following the successful launch of his fifth album in the U.S., the award-winning contemporary jazz artist turns his attention to his native Canada with Tuesday night’s CD release concert.Read more
  50. 30 October 2015Might Santa Claus bring Mariea Antoinette a GRAMMY® nomination?SAN DIEGO (30 October 2015): Urban-jazz harpist will release a funky disco rendition of “Gloria” for the holiday season as GRAMMY® voters consider her “Straight from the Harp: Special Edition” for nominations in five categories.Read more
  51. 13 October 2015Darren Barrett: Jamaican roots color “Trumpet Vibes”BOSTON (October, 13 2015):Read more
  52. 9 October 2015Rob Tardik “Moments” in the key of positiveTORONTO (19 October 2015):Read more
  53. 7 October 2015Jesse Cook set to embark upon the “One World” U.S. concert tourTUCSON (7 October 2015):Read more
  54. 27 August 2015Jesse Cook Conjures Sounds of Modern Day ConstantinopleWorld music artist focuses on American audiences with the official launch of his “One World” album and concert tour while his PBS special continues to power stations’ pledge drives.Read more
  55. 14 August 2015Kenyon Carter’s “Game On” wins a Global Music Award even before the album is releasedAtlanta, 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 ( www.KenyonCarter.com ) album that was released Friday (August 14) by CurvePoint Media, a ten-song set of originals that the saxophonist wrote and produced in this “Go for it!” moment in his career.Read more
  56. 6 August 2015Mariea Antoinette An entrepreneurial “Harp” full of soulSan 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.Read more
  57. 30 July 2015Groove therapy: contemporary jazz singer Carol Duboc keeps her diary open on “Colored Glasses”Los Angeles, California (30 July 2015): Her seventh album, due September 18, is bolstered by collaborator Jeff Lorber’s R&B rhythms.Read more
  58. 14 July 2015Steven Davis: Jazz crooner’s big voice almost silenced permanentlyLos Angeles, California (14 July 2015):Read more
  59. 7 July 2015Masterfully “Cool”: An album unlike any other by Bob James and Nathan EastNashville, 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, the long-time collaborators emerged with an unexpected and audacious collection of original compositions plus a few handpicked classics, an acoustic jazz outing that will make you forget everything you thought you knew about these GRAMMY®-recognized artists best known as contemporary jazz luminaries. The disc produced by Gero, James and East will be released September 18.Read more
  60. 24 June 2015Steven Davis: Swept up in the magic of a classic “Romance”Los Angeles, California (24 June 2015):Read more
  61. 23 April 2015Steven Davis: “Perfectly Perfect” soundtrack for summer loveNashville, Tennessee (23 April 2015):Read more
  62. 16 March 2015Blake Aaron spins soulful guitar tales on “Soul Stories,” coming May 5Aliso Viejo, Calif. (16 March 2014): Guitarist Blake Aaron utilized an unconventional approach when constructing his fifth album, “Soul Stories,” which will be released May 5 by Innervision Records. To maintain his presence on radio and in the marketplace while juggling a busy schedule as a first-call session player, featured sideman and in-demand producer, he issued a variety of singles with three cuts – the retro funk-disco energizer “Groove-O-Matic,” the urbane romantic duet with jazz crooner Spencer Day entitled “You’re the One for Me” and the salsa-singed “Encantadora” featuring Najee on flute – entering the Billboard Top 10. The ten-track “Soul Stories,” Aaron’s first collection that is entirely self-produced, contains eight original tunes authored by the artist.Read more
  63. 12 February 2015DW3 pays “Tribute” to their late drummer-mentor Ricky LawsonLos Angeles, California (12 February 2015):Read more
  64. 28 January 2015Saxophonist ShaShaty set to embark upon a “Dream Ride”Los Angeles, California (28 January 2015): It’s a new dawn for veteran contemporary jazz saxophonist ShaShaty, who will release his sixth album entitled “Brighter Day,” on March 3 on the newly formed A.H.I. Records. His first collection comprised entirely of original songs in more than a decade, the set showcases the artist who had a hand in writing seven of the disc’s eleven songs that were produced by guitarist-vocalist Steve Oliver, writer or co-writer of ten songs for the record. The energizing excursion “Dream Ride” bodes to illuminate radio playlists ahead of the album’s street date when the single is serviced to stations for airplay early next month. The video for the single will premiere at Universal CityWalk in Universal City, California where ShaShaty has been a featured performer over the past decade.Read more
  65. 15 January 2015Lawson Rollins is a virtuosic tour guide on a musical explorationSan Francisco, California (15 January 2015): Lawson Rollins is a virtuosic tour guide on a musical exploration around the globe on his fifth album, “Traveler,” which will be released February 17.Read more
  66. 12 January 2015Brian Culbertson celebrates a milestone anniversary “Live”Los Angeles, California (12 January 2015):Read more