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Charlton Singleton

A native of Awendaw, SC, Charlton Singleton began his musical studies at the age of three on the piano. He would then go on to study the organ, violin, cello, and the trumpet throughout elementary, middle and high school. In 1994, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance from South Carolina State University. Since that time, he has taught music at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, as well as being an adjunct faculty member at the College of Charleston. In 2008 he co-founded and became the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Charleston Jazz Orchestra; an 18 piece jazz ensemble of some of the finest professional musicians in the Southeast and the resident big band in Charleston, SC

Influencers vol. 1

By Lee Barbour

Label: Self-produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Countdown 26-2 In A Sentimental Mood In A Mellow Tone Strollin' Song For My Father One Finger Snap Driftin' Blue in Green Solar

Crossroads

By Charlton Singleton

Label: Baxter Music Enterprises
Released: 2022

Ramsey Lewis, Duke Ellington & Charlton Singleton

by Joe Dimino
October 2, 2022

We begin the 771st Episode of Neon Jazz with South Carolina-based trumpeter Charlton Singleton with a song off his album Crossroads. From there, we hear from a legend and the headliner at Charlton's first jazz concert in Dizzy Gillespie. We also hear from some local Kansas City talent in veteran drummer Arnold Young, guitarist Alex Frank ...

Django Reinhardt, James Moody and Nancy Kelly

by Joe Dimino
August 21, 2022

We kick off the 756th Episode of Neon Jazz with vocalist Nancy Kelly then spin an array of new music from the likes of Sidney Jacobs, The Extended Trio, Pasquale Stefano and Charlton Singleton. Brazilian jazz artist Tetel Di Babuya steps away from her violin in a new role as a singer on her new album ...

Quentin E. Baxter & Charlton Singleton Mark Nearly 30 Years Making Music Together With Joint Albums 'Art Moves Jazz' & 'Crossroads,' Set For Aug. 12 Release By Baxter Music Enterprises

July 15, 2022

Friends, bandmates, and fellow members of the Gullah cultural community Quentin E. Baxter and Charlton Singleton enrich their relationship yet further with the tandem August 12 release of their albums—Baxter’s Art Moves Jazz and Singleton’s Crossroads—on Baxter’s own BME/Baxter Music Enterprises. Two-fifths of the Grammy-winning Gullah music ensemble Ranky Tanky, drummer Baxter and trumpeter Singleton each ...

Charleston Jazz Festival 2020

by Martin McFie
January 28, 2020

Various Venues Charleston Jazz Festival Charleston, SC January 23-26, 2020 Jazz Festivals are like people, six years old is still in infancy, but everything has to start somewhere. Historically, the city which gave birth to the Charleston dance craze and was the inspiration for Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, deserves The Charleston ...

Good Time

By Ranky Tanky

Label: Resilience Music Alliance
Released: 2019
Track listing: Stand By Me; Freedom; All For You; Let Me Be; Sometime; Good Time; Beat Em Down; Green Sally; Old Bill; Pay Me My Money Down; Worried Now; Shoo Lie Loo.

Charlton Singleton At The Jazz Corner

by Martin McFie
October 29, 2019

The Charlton Singleton Quartet The Jazz Corner Hilton Head Island, SC October 27th, 2019 It was Sunday. Charlton Singleton played the organ for the morning congregation at his church in jny: Charleston, South Carolina. Then he drove with his quartet a hundred miles south through the Carolina Lowcountry ...

Ranky Tanky: Good Time

by John Bricker
August 10, 2019

The West African phrase Ranky Tanky roughly translates to “get funky" or “work it," according to the band's website. The band earns this title with danceable blends of gospel and jazz, celebrating the Gullah culture found in their home state of South Carolina. Although Good Time delivers more infectious energy than their self-titled debut, Ranky Tanky ...