Jazz News

Jazz Pianist Sunnie Paxson’s Hot "Bohemian Sun" Is Rising

Source: Diane Hadley
March 13, 2012

Since the beginning of the year, innovative contemporary jazz pianist, songwriter, producer and performer Sunnie Paxson has been methodically moving up the Jazz Week and Smooth Jazz charts with her new album, Bohemian Sun, released on the Roxboro Entertainment label. The CD has been gaining in radio play both domestically and internationally. Currently she ranks 23 on SmoothJazz.com's Radar Chart and 32 on the Jazz Week (February 28) charts as submitted by national radio stations and is moving up the ...

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Guitar Maestro Lloyd Gregory's "Gentle Warrior" CD Is Slamming It Up The Jazz Radio Airplay Charts

Source: Diane Hadley
January 14, 2012

The New Year finds award winning jazz guitarist, composer Lloyd Gregory’s CD, Gentle Warrior, surging up the jazz indie and radio airplay charts with its first single “Haiti.” January 9, 2012, Gentle Warrior jumped from 79 to 46 on the “SmoothJazz.com Current Top 50 Indie Chart.” It moved from 23 to 18 on the “SmoothJazz.com Radar Chart.” The album is on jazz icon Stanley Clarke’s new label, Roxboro Entertainment Group, which is distributed by Bungalo Records division of Universal Music ...

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Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., Visit Their Jazz and Blues Roots at Catalina’s Jazz Club in Hollywood

Source: Diane Hadley
August 12, 2011

Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., former lead singers of the internationally renowned, six-time Grammy-winning super group, The 5th Dimension, and later a Grammy winning duo, are looking forward to exploring their jazz and blues roots at Catalina's Jazz Club in Hollywood, CA, 8:00 p.m., August 25-27. In addition, the audience can expect to be entertained by many of their 5th Dimension classic hits including “Up, Up & Away," “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In," “Wedding Bell Blues," “One Less Bell to ...

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Stanley Clarke Set To Be Honored At Montreal Jazz Festival With Esteemed Miles Davis Award June 26

Source: Diane Hadley
June 17, 2011

Stanley Clarke will be the 18th recipient of the Miles Davis Award at the Montreal Jazz Festival June 26, 8:00 p.m., Salle Wilfrid-Peiletier venue. The award will be presented before his festival performance with Return To Forever. The Miles Davis Award was created in 1994 to honor a great international jazz musician for the entire body of his or her work and for that musician's influence in regenerating the jazz idiom. “Awards such as this make me remember and appreciate ...

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Stanley Clarke 60th Birthday Celebration Onstage in LA & NY

Source: Diane Hadley
May 9, 2011

Stanley Clarke is turning 60-years-old and he is celebrating as fans might expect—with live jazz. After several months on the road, he's bringing his Grammy Award-winning Stanley Clarke Band home to a Los Angeles for three nights of live performances at Hollywood's Catalina Jazz Club and then for six nights to The Blue Note in New York City. Special music friends will join the celebration for evenings of unforgettable jazz.

“I've spent a huge part of these last 60 years ...

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Grammy Winner Stanley Clarke Reflects On His Win And Two Nominations

Source: Diane Hadley Public Relations
February 14, 2011

Jazz bass legend Stanley Clarke is thrilled to win 2011 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album with his most recent CD, The Stanley Clarke Band, on the Heads Up International, a division of Concord Music Group, and the Roxboro Entertainment Group label. He was also nominated in the category of Best Pop Instrumental Performance, “No Mystery." Clarke is especially pleased because he feels that this album's music is fresh and different from just about anything he's done before. He ...

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