Thursday, December 31, 2020

LINDSEY WEBSWTER · HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS


 


Lindsey Webster's Single for Christmas time. Enjoy!!


Wednesday, December 30, 2020

VADIM TIKHONOV ft. ELENA IOUROVA · SNOWFLAKES IN THE CITY

United Music Group
Dec. 25, 2020


Vadim Tikhonov's New Single ft. Elena Iourova

Available on all Digital Media Outlets

MICHAEL FIELDS JR. Feat. CARMEN BRUNER · CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE

Water From The Rock Productions


Michael Fields's Single for Christmas time. Featuring Carmen Bruner. Enjoy!!


Tuesday, December 29, 2020

LEE RITENOUR · DREAMCATCHER

Mascot Label Group/Players Club
Dec. 4, 2020

Master guitarist Lee Ritenour released his brand-new album, ‘Dreamcatcher’ on 4th December 2020.

For Lee Ritenour, there aren’t many ‘firsts’ left to achieve. During his dazzling five-decade career, the fabled LA guitarist has taken his music to the outer limits, alighting on every genre and occupying every position in the rock ‘n’ roll firmament. He’s been an enfant terrible of ’70s fusion, a crossover star of the ’80s pop chart, an honorary exponent of Brazilian jazz, and the fingers behind ’90s supergroup, Fourplay. Ritenour’s accolades include: 45 albums,16 Grammy nominations, Alumnus of the year at USC, Los Angeles’ Jazz Society Honoree (2019), plus thousands of sessions with legends such as Frank Sinatra, Pink Floyd, B.B. King, Tony Bennett, among others.

And yet, when he checks the rear-view mirror, the 68-year-old acknowledges he’s never made a record like Dreamcatcher. “People have been telling me for years: ‘Rit, you gotta make a solo guitar record’. In the past, I’ve always been the band guy, the ensemble guy, the collaborative-guitar-player guy. So this was the one project I hadn’t done. And this year, I knew it was time.”

Weaving tapestries of instrumental guitar and conjuring eclectic moods, the 12 tracks of Dreamcatcherrank amongst the most melodic and tinglingly beautiful in Ritenour’s catalogue. But there’s a power and purpose here, too, hinting at the darker circumstances that sparked this new record. “Our house and my studio in Malibu, California burnt down in 2018,” he recalls. “About 100 of my guitars went up in the fire, plus 40 amps, lots of music, the history of my whole career, pretty much. A week after the fire, I went to the hospital, which I’d never had to do before, for surgery to replace an aortic valve. So those incidents and the support from my family and friends absolutely went into this music. Making this record was a life-saver for me.”

Even without lyrics, every track tells a story. Take the molten blues licks of “Abbot Kinney”, named for the fabled boulevard in Venice, California. Anyone living through the age of Covid-19 will feel a deep affinity with “2020”: a three-part symphony in which Ritenour takes the pulse of the times. “The three parts were a reflection of what was going on this year,” he nods, “when all of a sudden everybody’s life shut down. I was thinking about the young musicians that were out of work – and people in every walk of life.”

Ritenour strived to switch up musical styles – from the title track’s dovetailing classical guitars to the Taylor baritone that drives “Starlight’s” tumbling folk, and the mad scientist multi-tracking of “Couldn’t Help Myself.” “For DG” salutes the harmonic sensibilities of the great producer, pianist, and long-time comrade, Dave Grusin.

But it couldn’t be further from “Charleston”, whose mellow slink is laced with bittersweet thoughts on the ebb and flow of US race relations. “A few years ago, I played in Charleston, South Carolina,” recalls Ritenour, “and it was charming and the people were warm, and it was a very mixed, soulful audience. Charleston has a history of the beginnings of slavery, but this was modernday Charleston, y’know? But then, a few years later, I’m writing this tune while watching the continuation of the struggle. As musicians who travel all over the world, we go, ‘What? This shit is still going on in the US?’ So it was appropriate to dedicate that song to Black Lives Matter.”

Long-standing fans will recognize “Morning Glory Jam” as a rework of the guitarist’s classic 1977 tune. “On 2015’s A Twist Of Rit, I had revisited a lot of older material, so I wanted to keep this record fresh. But one day, I remembered when I did sessions for Barry White and how there had been four or five guitar players all playing these incredible rhythm parts. That’s the kind of groove I had in my head for this new version of Morning Glory.”

Those eclectic early tastes served Ritenour well. The jazz giants at The Lighthouse were a passion for life: just check out his love-letter to the great Mr Montgomery on 1993’s Wes Bound. But from the day he lucked into his first session for The Mamas And The Papas at age 16, Ritenour had the widescreen musicality to forge a career as one of LA’s busiest session men. “I remember John Phillips had this incredible studio in his Beverly Hills mansion and I just thought, ‘This is what I want’. As for my favorite and memorable sessions, I remember getting called by Bob Ezrin to record on “One Of My Turns” and “Comfortably Numb” on Pink Floyd’s, The Wall…incredible. And then there was Quincy Jones producing George Benson’s, “Give Me the Night” album and all of us waiting ‘til 4am for Stevie Wonder to show up and play a song he’d written for George’s album…Ha! Too many memories!”

His jazz supergroup Fourplay scored a commercial hit with their eponymous 1991 debut album. For Ritenour, the attraction was all about the chemistry between the band members. “The magic was immediate between me, Bob James, Harvey Mason and Nathan East. You can’t draw that sort of thing up on a chart – it either works or it doesn’t. We did three albums, but then the business got so complicated that I took a pass in 1997. But there was always friendship and musical respect, and we are talking about doing one last reunion project together.”

In a career full of left-turns, Dreamcatcher is another thrilling detour for Lee Ritenour. Both by necessity and design, this latest album represents music in its purest form: one man, channelling his headspace and the history unfolding around him, using the instrument that has sustained him all these years. There is a first time for everything and there has never been a better time for “Dreamcatcher”. “I’ve never done anything like this before and it’s an important missing piece in my guitar history. It was inspiring and it was meant to happen this year, in these times – after a lifetime of playing the guitar,” he considers, “this project reaffirmed just how much I love the guitar.”

Mascot Label Group/Players Club

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

LIV NESLOWE · MY GREATEST GIFT IS YOU

Music and lyrics by Tom Hansen. 
Arranged by Kenneth Eriksen.

Liv was born in Larvik in 1985, and was 5 years old when she started in a children's choir, which was the start of a great interest in song and music. Actually, Liv had a big dream of becoming Michael Jackson's drummer, but for some reason her parents never bought the nice blue kids drum kit she wanted. So then she was singing instead.

In 2005 Liv joined the musical theater line at Bårdar Academy in Oslo. After two years, she was fortunate enough to be accepted at the prestigious Guildford School of Acting in England. Graduated with a Bachelor of Dramatic Arts in 2010.

Since then, Liv have had the experience of sharing the stage with, among others, Shirley Bassey, Tony Christie and Beverly Knight, I have performed at The Royal Albert Hall in London, and she have sung for Prince Edward and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. Liv have starred in several films, including the BBC film Lapland directed by Catherine Morshead, and worked with famous names such as Richard Stilgoe and Ryan McGinley.

Now Liv work freelance as a singer and actor and run the theater company Tre på Rad, together with two other great actors, and she is regular soloist in the documentary concert series Spillelista.

Musicians are:
Kenneth Eriksen and Magne Arnesen.



Tuesday, December 22, 2020

DAVID GARFIELD · HOLIDAYS OUTSIDE THE BOX


Creatchy Records
Oct. 30, 2020

David Garfield’s Holidays Outside The Box, released on October 30, 2020 via Creatchy Records, is an ongoing international collaboration that merges the diverse cultures of our world into one celebratory musical experience. Produced and arranged by the multi-talented keyboardist, his latest Outside The Box project mixes contemporary seasonal favorites with traditional songs, including a fresh arrangement of “Chanukah, Oh Chanukah.”

Reimagined in five languages with an all-star cast, performers include members of Chicago, Pablo Cruise, Santana, Yellowjackets, War, Jimmy Buffet’s Coral Reefer Band, Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers and The Rippingtons.

“When I envisioned this holiday album I was thinking of how I could promote peace, spread love and bring the people of this world we’re all living in together,” says Garfield. “Having traveled the world from top to bottom, I was blessed with so many musical friends to collaborate with on this project of global unity.”

We know you’re making a list (and checking it twice), so be sure this album is at the top of yours.

Chart Room Media

Monday, December 21, 2020

MICHAEL DUNSTON · I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S CHRISTMAS

Boomtang Records

In our world of “flash-in-the-pan” singers and “here today, gone tomorrow” pop stars, it is a deserved treat to hear a beautiful tune rendered soulfully and with an authentic depth of emotion that only a seasoned artist like Michael Dunston can bring. While we feel that Dunston’s music speaks for itself, there is clearly more to his story. “Michael is someone who channels the whole history of male R&B vocals when he sings,” elaborates Andrew Scott. “This is someone who can light up a room like almost no other performer. I’ve seen him energize a crowd in the thousands with his enormous talent and boundless energy.”




Sunday, December 20, 2020

FOLLOW ME 87.6 RADIO SHOW · EP. 215 -CHRISTMAS-


Playlist

B.B. KING – I´ll Be Home For Christmas
Vanessa Williams - Joy To The World – (Feat. Brian Mcknight) – December lullaby –
Steven Ford & Friends – Let Everyday Be Christmas
Jody Mayfield – Park Avenue – NEW - Angels We Have Heard on High
NEW - Zoe Scott – Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas -The christmas Song
Gregory Porter – The Christmas Song
Mario Biondi -White Christmas
Kelvin Wooten – Joyful, Joyful
NEW - Kim Scott – Five Favorite Things 

Friday, December 18, 2020

MARTIN & GARP · TOLD YOU STRAIGHT -RADIO SINGLE-

Légère Recordings
Dec. 18, 2020

“Told You Straight” is the second single from Martin & Garp’s upcoming debut album “Sentimental Fools”, which will be released in January 2021.

Thursday, December 17, 2020

KIM SCOTT · FIVE FAVORITE THINGS

Innervision Records
Nov. 20, 2020


Kim Scott's New Single for Christmas time. Enjoy!!


Tuesday, December 15, 2020

HAMBURG SPINNERS · SKORPION IM STIEFEL

Légére Recordings
Digital release: Dec 4 2020 / LP release: Jan 21 2021

"Skorpion im Stiefel" is the long-awaited debut album by Hamburg Spinners, a contemporary soul, Hammond jazz, mod-jazz and R&B outfit based in Hamburg/Germany.

The Hamburg Spinners sound blends floating Hammond organ lines, kinetic, driving grooves, funky breaks and slicing, economic improvisation. The quartet features Carsten Meyer on Hammond B-3, Dennis Rux on guitar, David Nesselhauf on bass, and Lucas Kochbeck on drums.

"Skorpion im Stiefel" was cut live on a weekend in May 2020 in Hamburg's Yeah!Yeah!Yeah!-Studios with all band members playing together in the same room as a way of capturing their live sound on tape. The only overdubs were a few shouts and some ambient noise. With Meyer's soulful organ sound owing equally to Booker T. Jones, Ingfried Hoffmann as well as Georgie Fame, his gritty soulful sound is buoyed by Rux's warm and gripping guitar sound, Nesselhauf’s dynamic bass lines and Kochbeck's tight in-the-pocket drumming. Who needs winners when there’s Hamburg Spinners!?

Monday, December 14, 2020

MARIA JACOBS · EMMANUEL

Nov. 20, 2020 
Independent


Maria Jacob's New Single for Christmas time. Enjoy!!


FOLLOW ME 87.6 RADIO SHOW. EP. 214


 
Playlist:

Roberto Tola – Libecci
NEW
- Vadim Tikhonov - My Happy Christmas With You
NEW
- Chan hall – In Pursuit
NEW
-Marcus Click – Together We Stand
Shawn Raiford - Good Vibrations
Jarrod Lawson – Universal Chord
Mark Etheredge – You & Me & We (Feat. Paul Brown)
Rick Habana – Loungin (Feat. Jackiem Joyner) 

Sunday, December 13, 2020

DEBORA GALÁN · THE CHRISTMAS SONG

Nov. 26, 2020
Debora Galán


Debora Galán's New Single for Christmas time. Enjoy!!


Thursday, December 10, 2020

VADIM TIKHONOV · MY HAPPY CHRISTMAS WITH YOU

United Music Group
December 4, 2020


Vadim Tikhonov's New Single for Christmas time. Enjoy!!


Wednesday, December 9, 2020

MARTIN & GARP · SENTIMENTAL FOOLS

Légère Recordings - Jan. 15, 2021
P-Vine Records Japan - Oct. 21, 2020

Dutch musician and producer Phil Martin has always been interested in the West Coast music scene and distinctive sound from the late 70s era. Artist like Steely Dan, Hall & Oates, The Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles all featured heavily in his diet of music when he was growing up. As a producer and songwriter, Phil has historically been more active in soul and jazz music. He has produced albums for successful projects such as The Jazzinvaders, Laura Vane and the Vipertones and The Soul Snatchers, all busy touring bands with international radio support. After working on a project with singer Lo van Gorp (Garp) from the Netherlands, Phil found the perfect vocal fit to his recordings for his own West Coast flavoured pop album. Together with other songwriters like Joel Sarakula and Laura Vane he began writing and producing songs. Lo van Gorp is a well known backing singer and saxophonist in Holland, recognized for his work backing many bigger artists like Marco Borsato, Paul Carrack, Roger Hodgson, Chaka Khan, Trijntje Oosterhuis and Al Jarreau, to name a few.

The sound of Martin & Garp can best be described as feel-good, radio friendly melodies romantically looking back to California in the 70s. In amongst the catchy guitar and synth licks and luxurious harmonies, the theme is the unifying effect of music in the quest for sunny optimism. This album spills groovy rhythms like in the first single “Making Up”, together with jazz harmonies and smooth vocals as in the second single “Told You Straight” to release next decmber 18. Imagine that ‘feel-good record’ that has to be played loudly in your convertible, recorded by super-pro musicians on original analog equipment. Cruising down the coast with the wind in your hair, darting in and out of the shade created by beach-side palm trees: That’s “Sentimental Fools”.

Légère Recordings

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

ROBERTO VAZQUEZ · THE CHRISTMAS SONG

Roberto Vazquez
Dec. 2020

Born in Cuba, composer and keyboard player Roberto Vazquez is without doubt a star in the making. Already a considerable force in the sphere of Latin music, this working musician who plays keyboards every week in the prestigious ‘Legends In Concert' stage show in Harrah's Casino on the famed Las Vegas strip.

Sunday, December 6, 2020

FOLLOW ME 87.6 RADIO SHOW EP. 213



Playlist

Roberto Vazquez - The Christmas Song (Feat. Rene Toledo)
Brian Bromberg - Let It Snow (Feat. Maysa & Chris Walker) – Feliz Navidad (Najee) - Jingle    Bells Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel St. Thomas (Feat. Elan Trotman)
Alana Marie & Franco Sattamini - White Christmas
Nils – Merry, Merry Christmas - (Feat. Erin Stevenson)
Human Nature - Please Come Home for Christmas (Feat. Smoking Robinson) - White                 Christmas – Sleigh Ride (Feat. Jessica Mauboy)
Maysa – This Christmas (Feat Will Downing) – It´sthe Holidays 

R.L. WALKER · GRATEFUL

R.L. Walker Music


As we approach the Holiday Season, it is a great time to reflect on just how Grateful we all should be! In the midst of termoil and strife, there still remains many blessings and triumphs. R.L. Walker and Demitriace "Chee Chee" Jordan brings you a track of Praise and Positivity "Grateful"


Available on all Digital Media Outlets



Thursday, December 3, 2020

MARCUS CLICK · TOGETHER WE STAND -RADIO SINGLE-

Twin Records
Nov. 16, 2020

Marcus has released his single “Together We Stand” on November 16, 2020, which displays an uptempo jazz funk style. This song will keep you locked in for more of Marcus’s music. Therefore, you may want to stay tuned for the release of Marcus’s new CD, Brand New Day, early 2021!!!


Available on all Digital Media Outlets

 

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

CELIA BERK · HOLIDAY BELLS MEDLEY

Nov. 15, 2020 
Gramercy Nightingale Music

"Holiday Bells Medley" is a blend of Silver Bells, Carol of the Bells and Shostakovich's Waltz #2, Opus 99. Jazz Pianist Jon Weber arranged the medley and vocals. Steve Kenyon and C.J. Camerieri provided the Trumpet, French Horn and Woodwind arrangements. Producer Scott Lehrer found ways for us to collaborate in the studio, at home and on Zoom.

Available on all Digital Media Outlets

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

FOLLOW ME 87.6 FM RADIO SHOW EP. 212

Playlist

NEW
- Roberto Vazquez feat: Rene Toledo- The Christmas song
NEW
- Debora Galan – Feat Greg Manning –Adam Hawley – Hussain Jiffri and Eric Valentine - The Christmas song
NEW
- Kim Scott – Five Favorite Things
NEW
- Jay Rowe – Jingle Bells
Maria Jacobs – Emmanuel
NEW
- R.L. Walker – Feat. Demetriace “Chee Chee” Jordan- Grateful
Ragan Whitside – Flyng on 75
NEW
- Patrick Mclean – Release Their Soul
Christian de Mesones – Sweetnight
Debora Galan – feat. Greg Manning – Make you Mine
Carmen Bruner – Hold On to You
Lindsey Webster – Close To You