Talking Smooth Jazz

Contemporary jazz vocalist, Victor Fields, joins forces with smooth jazz guitarist, Chris Camozzi, for a head-bobbing and soulful rendition of a Lou Rawls classic!  The Lou Rawls Project is a sultry, bluesy and easy swinging set featuring lush, sophisticated re-imaginings of ten Rawls classics.  Victor's rich gauzy tenor and his ability to move seamlessly between the blues, jazz, R&B and Pop prompted the legendary Lou Rawls to call him “the man with the golden voice” and the Los Angeles Times to describe him as "a stylistically accomplished singer who deserves much more attention."

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President & CEO Alvin Keels joins us to talk about his Jazz Legacy Foundation's Fundraising Gala weekend happening November 13-15, 2015, in Hampton, VA.  Line-up includes, Brian Culbertson, Gerald Albright, El Debarge, Marcus Johnson, Boney James, Maysa, Richard Elliott, Rick Braun and more! 

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Chris Geith returns to talk about his latest release Chasing Rainbows, a collection of music heard on The Weather Channel's Local on The 8's and his upcoming release, Well Tempered Love.  

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Jazz guitarist dee Brown returns with a new release called Brown Sugar, Honey Coated Love on Innervision Records.  Foundationally inspired by Proverbs 27:7 which says, “a satisfied soul loathes the honeycomb, but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.” 

Possessing a solid musical background, dee has performed with artists such as Nate Harasim, Aretha Franklin, BeBe & CeCe Winans, Paul Taylor, Randy Scott, Michael Winans and Gail Jhonson, just to name a few. 

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Craig “Thumper” Samuels, the one man band from Omaha Nebraska has been on the music seen for several years and has a very high following. He's a musician, singer, songwriter, actor, model, composer, producer, and much more. His style of music blends rock, gospel, funk, jazz, pop, R&B, and many other styles together and adds a little spice of his own to produce his sound - the O-Zone sound. We will talk to Craig about his latest release, One. 

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Producer and Keyboardist Jason Carroll and Trumpeter Isaac Byrd, Jr., joins us to talk about their new project Silky & Smooth. Formed by Jason and Isaac, Silky & Smooth is a collaboration that features the likes of Jeff Gaeth, Nathan Woodward, David P. Stevens, and Charlie Duran. With a lineup as versatile as this, the sound is as unique as smooth jazz gets. Though Carroll produced all of the songs on the album, Silky & Smooth has enough diversity from song to song to satisfy just about any smooth jazz lover's craving for tasteful music.

Take one of the hottest composers and keyboard players in instrumental pop, add in featured performances from the likes of Gerald Albright, Paul Taylor and Nils Landgren, hook them up with ten wonderful new tunes and what do you have?  The answer is ‘Fritzenized’, the latest album from the Billboard chart-topping, artist Jonathan Fritzén.

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We welcome Bobby to talk about his latest release, Comin At You.

Guitarist Ken Navarro has released "Hope, Joy, Strength" a trilogy of 3 new songs.  Uplifting and energetic beautiful contemporary jazz music from one of the genre's most gifted and successful recording artists.  Top charting and award winning contemporary guitarist and composer Ken Navarro begins 2015 with positive and soulful new music.

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Saxophonist and flutist Nelson Rangell is back with two new releases: "Blue" an entire collection of flute recordings.  This is a diverse cd with everything from pop jazz originals, cool covers, uptempo straight ahead to jazz adaptations of well known classical pieces from Ravel, Faure and Prokofiev.  The other new release is called "Red" featuring all saxophone tunes.  Nelson says "this is more of a contemporary pop jazz cd than a smooth jazz recording with a pretty fair amount of improvisation going on." 

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