Kyle Wolverton – Soul Groove
Kyle was born in Seattle, Washington to Lee and Cherry Wolverton, an extremely musical family. Kyle’s Father, Lee as well as Kyle’s younger brother Joel, are also sax players. With Mom acting as the family manager and booking agent, the “Wolverton Family Sax Trio” was a very hot ticket throughout the greater Northwest. Much of their repertoire consisted of traditional gospel selections.
Growing up in the cozy, damp, environment of Seattle, Kyle had many hours to listen, learn, and play while watching the rain fall. With his early musical taste firmly rooted in gospel, Kyle found himself drawn toward influences such as Grover Washington Jr., Maceo Parker and David Sanborn. His love of fusion jazz combined with R&B influences such as Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross, and Keith Sweat soon melded together to create a very unique sound.
Kyle studied music at Pacific Union College. While in school, Kyle founded the Smooth Jazz -Fusion band “Similar Differences”, who featured members of Taj Mahal. Similar Differences played throughout the Napa Valley and San Francisco Area. After college, Kyle traveled throughout the South Pacific playing with many native acts which broadened his musical horizons even further. Upon returning to the states, Kyle joined forces with Northern California’s premier blues band, “Marshall Law”.
In 2001, Kyle relocated to Los Angeles and has since performed with a countless list of fantastic recording artists of all styles. It is with much excitement and anticipation that Kyle Wolverton‘s debut solo project, Soul Groove is being released on CDBaby.
If all the world is indeed a stage, pianist-composer Hiromi Uehara has played on just about every corner of it. Since the beginning of the decade, she has supported her impressive body of studio work with an ambitious tour schedule that has electrified audiences throughout the U.S. , Europe, Asia and elsewhere with performances that have pushed the limits of piano jazz to new frontiers of compositional and technical skills.
Somewhere between the atmospheric soundscapes of New Age, the hypnotic grooves of Chill, and the harmonic textures of Jazz, flows the music of Stephan Earl. His melodic focus is reminiscent of Classical composers with a unique and modern edge, while his rhythms and grooves paint with a distinctive pallet that is both enchanting and thought provoking.
When Rocco was 14 years old, he began to study clarinet at the Conservatory of Music of Bari and after four years Rocco got his first gig with the Symphonic Orchestra of the Petruzzelli’s Theatre of Bari, playing with great artists like Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Josè Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli. After graduating Rocco began to study saxophone as self-taught and in meantime he participated to some “clinics” with David Liebman, Michael Brecker, Eric Marienthal, Lee Konitz.
Stan Barnes‘ new CD The Way You Make Me Feel has music lovers once again excited. His approach to this compilation offers the hope that the Music Industry has long awaited. Stan is a highly energetic performer and entertainer that is not afraid to mix genres and styles to deliver great music to his listeners. His interpretation of the different styles of music through the years has grown into a respected artistic expression of sound and styles all of his own. You are absolutely going to love this CD.
Thanks to the benefit of a subscription to Chris Standring‘s newsletter I can announce glad tidings about the nearly arrival of his new album Blue Bolero, which will be released on his label Ultimate Vibe Records on March 2nd 2010. The first single will be out in February.
The genius is back with his new album Only Everything, scheduled for release on Decca, on January 26, 2010. “Among the great saxophonists of the past four decades,” says one Rolling Stone writer, “David Sanborn has earned an identity all his own. He’s jazz, he’s funk, he’s soul, he’s pop, he’s blues, he’s rock. Most remarkably, he excels in each of these genres with a voice that is both forceful and tender, sensuous and subtle.”
Memories Of A Winter’s Night features the Koz-penned title track plus 12 holiday standards. Highlights include two brand new duets: first single White Christmas with Kelly Sweet, who scored a Top Ten hit at both Adult Contemporary and Smooth Jazz radio with Raincoat the first single from her debut album and Please Come Home For Christmas with Christmas tour mate Kimberley Locke, who has topped the AC charts for the past two holiday seasons with singles Up on the Housetop and Jingle Bells.
WHUR 96.3 is very proud to present its inaugural Soul of the Holidays, direct-to-DVD/CD holiday musical extravaganza. This DVD/CD music compilation truly defines the sound and “soul” of classic holiday favorites featuring the vocals and music stylings of Spur of the Moment, Angie Stone, Joe, Phil Perry, Maysa, Brian Culbertson, Plunky, Vanessa Renee Williams, Tony Rich and Mike Phillips.
After Imagine This Tom Braxton returns with his second album for Pacific Coast Jazz entitled Endless Highway. Tom Braxton regards his own life as highway with many obstacles and odds.
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