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 Veteran contemporary jazz quartet Fourplay has been known to feature special guest vocalists on its recordings, but in recent years it has turned mostly to its bassist, Nathan East, for vocal duties. On its latest release, Energy, the foursome not only feature East but jazz sensation Esperanza Spalding.
Spalding is an upright bassist and vocalist, who recently released her CD Esperanza on the Heads Up International label. She joins Fourplay to sing "Prelude For Love," an original tune penned by Hilary James, daughter of keyboardist Bob James, and her husband Kevin DiSimone.
East explains that Spalding was suggested to the group as a singer by the Heads Up label. Said East: "We hadn't really heard of her. And when we heard her voice, and especially what she did with the song, we just became instant fans. And I actually had a chance to see her live and she's an amazing musician, just a very, very bright, shining star."
Energy also features the current smooth jazz single "Fortune Teller."
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 Saxophonist Eric Marienthal is making another assault on smooth jazz radio with a brand new single, the title track to his latest solo album, Just Around The Corner.
The pop-edged, up-tempo tune was penned by Marienthal with Stephen Lu and was produced by Lu.
For the album -- his 11th solo set --Marienthal also collaborated with keyboardist Brian Culbertson, who produced and co-wrote the set's first single, "Blue Water."
Jeff Lorber and Paul Brown, also had a hand in creating music for the set.
Marienthal maintains a busy concert schedule, performing with various artists. His next gig is an October 10th performance with the Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band in Laguna Beach, California.
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 From January 31st through February 5th of 2009 Norman Brown will host The Smooth Music Cruise.
The self-proclaimed “ultimate music vacation” will include stops in Key West, the private island of Coco Cay and the Bahamas. Although this year’s cruise is set to be an upscale event, it is still focused on the music.
Norman Brown will host along with fellow headliner and jam session host Nick Colionne.
The event will also feature Boney James, Mindi Abair, Heather Headley, Larry Carlton, Acoustic Alchemy, Greg Adams, Marlon Meadows, Steve Cole, Shilts, Steve Oliver, Chieli Minnuci, Michael Lington, Alan Hewitt and Althea Rene, and many others. Daily performances will be scheduled in the afternoons and all evening, and all musicians will perform their show at least twice during the cruise to accommodate all guests. The event will also host autograph and interview sessions, as well as late night jam sessions. |
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 James Taylor supported his just-released new album, Covers, with a set of his own material on October 2nd in a special solo performance at Borders Books & Music's headquarters store in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Taylor explained to the crowd of 400, who had lined up early in the morning for wristbands, that he could not perform most of the songs from Covers, which he recorded with his 12-member Band of Legends, by himself. He did, however, play a rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne," which appears on the album, along with "Something In The Way She Moves," "Secret O' Life," "Carolina In My Mind," "Sweet Baby James," "Belfast To Boston (God's Rifle" from 2002's October Road album, and "Mexico."
Taylor was in a jovial mood throughout the half-hour set, talking a bit about Covers and telling stories about the songs he did play. He got a laugh from the crowd after "Something In The Way She Moves," which he said got him his deal with the Beatles' Apple Records label: "I played it for Paul McCartney and he liked it. I played it for George Harrison, and he liked it so much he went home and wrote it" -- referring to Harrison's Beatles' hit "Something."
The performance was filmed and will be posted on the Borders.com web site early next week.
Taylor has upcoming appearances booked on NBC's The Tonight Show on October 7th, Public Radio International's The Tavis Smiley Show on October 8th and an October 22nd stop on PBS' Charlie Rose with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who played on "Suzanne." Taylor is also taping a segment for Sundance's new Spectacle: Elvis Costello With...
A version of the Temptations' "It's Growing" is the first single from Covers.
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 Guitarist Richard Smith assembled a who's who of Los Angeles musicians to record the ensemble CD L.A. Chillharmonic, featuring the current single, a version of Stevie Wonder's "Boogie On Reggae Woman."
Featured on the CD are bassist Brian Bromberg, drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, percussionist Alex Acuna, keyboardist Jeff Lorber, pianists Patrice Rushen and Greg Karukas, trumpeter Greg Adams, and saxophonists Gary Meek, Michael Paulo, and Eric Marienthal.
Smith, also a professor at the University of Southern California-Los Angeles, says that in writing and orchestrating music for so many top notch players, he had to focus on the strengths of the musicians. He explained: "When you're doing something artistically, one of the things I tell my students is, do it for somebody else. If you're making a record, make it for your mom or your dad and take yourself out of the equation. Duke Ellington did this as well. When he wrote pieces he thought of the members of his band. And he wrote things, just either subliminally or overtly, for specific musicians. "
He continued: "Here I am surrounded by these amazing cats that I've been working with for years, Brian and Jeff Lorber and all these guys who give me this kind of imagery musically. And so I decided to follow my own advice, and I stopped thinking guitar and I stopped thinking about what my sensibilities are and I started thinking, well, is this guy gonna have a lot of fun when I get in the studio with him. So I made each tune sort of a little feature statement for those guys. And I guess that's why it kinda sounds like there's a group ownership to the whole thing."
Smith's L.A. Chilharmonic ensemble performed this past weekend at the JazzTrax Catalina Island Festival in Avalon, California.
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