804JAZZ NEWS- Bill McGee's HIT CD - CHASE THE SUNSET is still hot all over the country and around the world. CHASE THE SUNSET peaked at #43 on the Top 50 Smooth Jazz Chart and #14 on the Indie Smooth Jazz Chart... receiving strong airplay in many major markets including Houston, Birmingham and Nashville. Purchase your copy today. Also available as a download on Itunes, Rhapsody, Zune, Napster and other popular download sites.

804JAZZ's Bill McGee is now a voting member of the Recording Academy based on his years of significant contribution to recorded music and music education. Voting members are allowed to nominate artist, albums and singles for recognition and placement on the GRAMMY ballot. This year we are proud to announce that we have submitted for nomination three of our dear friends and colleagues. We have submitted for Best Contemporary Smooth Jazz CD, JAMES SAXSMO GATES - It's Time and PLUNKY - Drive It. We also submitted ALEX LATTIMORE - Promises. which was submitted for Best Contemprary Jazz Album Vocal. We are very proud to announce that all three artist were accepted by the Recording Academy and their names appear on the ballot that has been sent to GRAMMY voting members for the 51st annual GRAMMY Awards. We wish them well and pray that they will receive enough votes to make the list of GRAMMY finalist.

PLUNKY was HOT with Cold Heat, the HIT CD by PLUNKY BRANCH that burned up the airwaves on the Michael Baisden Show. Now he's blazing the charts full speed ahead with the New CD DRIVE IT Already gaining significant airplay around the world PLUNKY - DRIVE IT is a BIG HIT PLUNKY.

Scott Obrien from SmoothJazz.Com says - As I listen to Virginia guitarist Jim Adkins’ new album CITY STREETS, I’m pondering as to what it is about his music that makes me feel so good. The first song of Jim’s that I remember being enamored with was “Into the Storm” from his 2002 release TURNING POINT. Now, two albums later, CITY STREETS evolves and continues the outstanding quality I heard in that first listen to his music six years ago. This isn’t just a good album… it’s a great album… make that exceptional, it’s an exceptional recording! My ultimate test of any song is whether or not I would stay with it until it ends, even though I’d be delaying an activity such as getting out of the car or shutting off my iPod or Roku. There is not one track on this new album that I wouldn’t want to savor in its entirety before doing something else. Again, I have to ask why that is, and without delving too deeply into some analysis best left to a musicologist (or perhaps a psychologist) I’ll simplify it and call it an organic, simple elegance of expression. I love his melodies, the tone he brings out of his instrument, his pacing, his economy of notes, his soul, as it were, coming through his music. Jim Adkins’ CITY STREETS works beautifully for me. I can’t imagine that it wouldn’t work exactly that way for you!

We are proud to annouce the release of FEELIN' IT by one of our best west coast friends and colleagues - FREDDIE FOX. The new CD FEELIN' IT is Hot, Cool, Groovin' and Smooth. Freddie is absolutely one of the best guitar players around. How many guitar players can say that they've played guitar on a CD and #1 Hit by the great GEORGE BENSON; Freddie can. He's also married to our favorite DISCO QUEEN Evelyn Champagne King who sings beautifully on the Frankie Beverly Hit Happy Feelin's. The CD FEELIN' IT features many of todays top recording artist including Najee, Marion Meadows, Michael Lington, Walter Beasley and our own BILL MCGEE on trumpet/flugelhorn. Freddie Fox attended Berklee with our own JAMES SAXSMO GATES and has performed and recorded with a who's who of artist, including Evelyn Champagne King, Rose Royce, Atlantic Starr, Jennifer Holiday and Eric Benet. We highly recommend that you click on the link and buy a copy today. This is GREAT smooth jazz!! We've already purchased several copies and will be giving this CD away as Christmas Gifts.

Do you have your copy of the CD IT'S TIME by James Saxsmo Gates - Saxsmo is known all over the world for his work with Billy Kilson, Larry Carlton, Roberta Flack, Dizzy Gillispie, Art Blakey, Terri Lynn Carrington, Fred Wesley and Bill McGee, just to name a few. A Berklee College of Music graduate, Saxsmo is in 2008 going to make his mark on the Smooth Jazz music scene with his second solo jazz project... Produced by Hannon Lane (Roy Ayers, Evelyn Champagne King and The Main Ingredient). The great trombonist FRED WESLEY former Music Director for James Brown, and George Clinton's Horny Horns came to 804JAZZ and recorded a blazing version of Ain't No Stopping us Now with Saxsmo on his new Hit CD IT'S TIME.... After you buy your copy of It's Time you should also pick up Fred's book HIT ME FRED, it's a first hand look at the last 40 years of R&B, Soul, Jazz and Funk, being that Fred worked with the late Ike Turner, the late James Brown, George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic, Bootsy's Rubber Band, and the late Count Basie. Also recording with Fred on trombone was Hannon Lane (Producer) and Brandon Lane who plays bone and bass. Brandon's only 15 years old....... p.s. our Associate Producer Bill McGee is mentioned by name in Fred's Book...

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