BOB JAMES & DAVID SANBORN PAY TRIBUTE TO DAVE BRUBECK & PAUL DESMOND

ON THEIR NEW ALBUM, QUARTETTE HUMAINE

It’s the first collaboration between James & Sanborn since their 1986 Platinum-Selling, GRAMMY® Award-Winning Album, Double Vision, and features bassist James Genus & drummer Steve Gadd on the all-acoustic project.

OKeh released keyboardist-composer-arranger Bob James and alto saxophonist David Sanborn’s new album, Quartette Humaine, on May 21, 2013. The project is the first collaboration between the two musicians since their 1986 Platinum-selling, GRAMMY® Award-winning album, Double Vision. An all-acoustic quartet offering, Quartette Humaine pays tribute to the late iconic pianist-composer Dave Brubeck, putting a prime spotlight on his work that featured alto saxophonist Paul Desmond.

“David and I realized long ago that Double Vision had become more successful than we originally imagined it could be,” James says. “Ironically, although we’ve met in the studio, doing other people’s projects, we’ve never toured, or performed together live as a band. The exception was a midnight jam session at the Tokyo Jazz Festival a few years ago. We played just a couple of tunes, but it engendered the feeling that a reunion was way overdue.”

You can read the whole story behind the album at http://www.bobjames.com/2013/04/17/james-sanborns-quartette-humaine-headed-for-big-things/

Who doesn’t want a “Sweeter Life?” With timeless vocals reminiscent of greats like Natalie Cole and Nancy Wilson, Delilah sings from her enchanted Gypsy soul spinning tales and delivering the history of the Roma in the modern world with the release of “Sweeter Life” (aka “A Sweeter Life”).

The heavy-hitting producers on “Sweeter Life” include Grammy® nominated Vikter Duplaix, Earth Wind and Fire , Erykah Badu, and Incognito) on “A Sweeter Life” and “My Happiness,” along with Canada’s top earning songwriter and producer Marcus Kane/Rane Parish for “Magic” and “Queendom.” Lemoyne Alexander (R. Kelly and Aaliyah) produced “Love Me,” “I’ll Be Over You,” “Precious Love,” “Unbelieveable” and “Hello,” while Dave Sereny (guitarist and founder of the Groove United music label) produced “Tell Me” and “Love Life.” Featured artists on the CD include the Steve Wonder rhythm section of Nathan Watts and Stanley Randolph.  During the developmental stages of her US solo career, a few tracks from the “Sweeter Life” CD were featured in a CD known as “A Sweeter Life.” However, as a struggling artist on the rise, this CD never had a chance to be fully brought to life. Favorite tracks were pulled from this album with seven new songs to create the CD simply titled “Sweeter Life” that you hear today.

In another project, Delilah teamed up with the legendary Jim Peterik as writer and producer for the “Beats for You” EP, which enabled Delilah to take her talents to an extraordinary new realm. (The accolades for rocker Jim Peterik are many and includes being named a Grammy® award winner, as well as an Oscar nominee for “Eye Of The Tiger,” His song writing credits are many and include “The Search Is Over,” “Hold On Loosely,” “Vehicle” and many more.)  For his EP, Jim produced and wrote four songs for Delilah: “Beats for You,” “Love by Numbers,” “One Lifetime” and “Fascination with Fire.”  With sexy undertones and simmering melodies, these songs mark a progressive maturity for Delilah into the world of pop music.

“Once in a great while, you find a voice with a certain ethereal quality that speaks to the soul. When I first heard Delilah sing I felt that. It’s been a joy working with this gifted singer and her musician partner Dave Sereny. As her producer, I am very grateful for the life she brought to my songs. I’m looking forward to the world discovering this great artist,” said Peterik.

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The release of his fourth studio album proves that Phillip “Doc” Martin is no flash in the pan. Boasting a strong resume of chart successes from his previous CDs; “Doc Martin” is a rising star who’s powerful, heartfelt melodies are wooing live audiences on stages in the US and internationally. And if Martin has his way, music fans all of world over will soon find themselves enjoying a “good day at work” thanks to the intoxicating sounds of his alto saxophone!

“Good Day At Work”, features 10 new songs that just don’t passively fit the traditional smooth, instrumental or funky rhythm genres. His tunes flex, bounce and bend offering audiophiles a “new sax” diagnosis. Martin plays his horn with a warm and clear tone supplemented by a amazing range that takes you on a soulful and energetic journey with the likes of classical soul crooners like Donny Hathaway, Gerald Levert and James Brown. His unique sound has drawn the praise of Jazz superstars George Benson, Kim Waters, and Jeff Lorber, who has proclaimed that “Doc Martin’s music captures the energy of a live club recording…”

“Sunshower,” the new single from the contemporary jazz group Airborne, embeds the beauty of nature into an amazing and smooth grooving tune that will shine a light of delight to any listener’s ear, mind and body.

A sunshower is a meteorological phenomenon in which rain falls while the sun is shining. These conditions often lead to the appearance of a rainbow.

This feel good theme of “Sunshower” opens up as a sky with raindrops that groove a heartfelt beat as the haunting wind of the soprano sax colors a rainbow through the clouds with a wondrous joy streaming through the warm rays of sunlight of the other instruments and vocals to create a cool atmosphere of music that is truly Airborne.

“Sunshower” is the first single from the soon to be released “Silver Skies” 25th anniversary CD by the Airborne band. “Silver Skies” includes a wide range of all new compositions filled with their joyful trademark sound of island passion and urban emotion. Airborne has produced a signature variation of musical conditions to specifically and remarkably chase the clouds away. Jump on board the Airborne experience in 2013 with the 25th anniversary “Silver Skies” CD on Tilt Records.

More About Airborne:

Airborne is a multi-cultural, contemporary jazz group based from New Haven, CT USA. Formed in the 1980’s these veterans of jazz celebrate years of recording projects, jazz festivals, concerts, and clubs. Airborne the proclaimed “Musical Peacemakers” of contemporary jazz sends out an inspirational message of hope to the world.

Through the years, these musical peacemakers have garnered positive reviews by the press and radio. For instance, in a review of their last CD, “Back in the Dayze – Airborne Anthology,” noted jazz journalist Brian Soergel proclaimed in the UrbanMusicScene.com that in addition to their “upbeat sound” that the band possessed “…top-quality musicianship with heft and plenty of sway.”

The tradition of positive music with killer musicianship continues with the single release of “Sunshower” and the upcoming release of the “Silver Skies” CD.

For more information, please visit the Airborne website: http://www.airbornejazz.com