804JAZZ NEWS - Bill McGee's HIT CD - CHASE THE SUNSET is still burning up the air waves all over the country and around the world. CHASE THE SUNSET hit #43 on the Top 50 Smooth Jazz Chart and #14 on the Indie Smooth Jazz Chart... receiving strong airplay in several major markets including Houston, Birmingham and Nashville. Bill is currently working hard on his latest CD to be released Fall 2011.

Jim Atkins is working on his 7th Solo Smooth Jazz CD.. to be released early in 2012. Jim is one of the top smooth jazz guitarist on the east coast and has charted nationally on his previous releases.... check back here for more information or click on Jim's CD cover to check out his website...

CHECK OUT OUR ARTIST PAGE - We feature friends of 804 Jazz, The 804 Jazz Allstars and New friends from around the country who have GREAT Smooth Jazz Cd's. Please support INDEPENDENT SMOOTH JAZZ.

Check out Saxsmo and his hit CD "IT'S TIME" by James Saxsmo Gates - Saxsmo is known all over the world for his work with Billy Kilson, Larry Carlton, Terri Lynn Carrington and Bill McGee, just to name a few. A Berklee College of Music graduate, Saxsmo is poised 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 was recently at 804JAZZ recording with Saxsmo for his "IT'S TIME" CD.
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 Ike and Tina Turner, James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic, Bootsy's Rubber Band, and 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. Bill McGee is mentioned by name in Fred's Book...

PLUNKY is HOT and On Fire, the newest CD by PLUNKY BRANCH is burning up the airwaves and the group is burning up the stage. Plunky & his son, Fire, have produced an album of new songs that are both retro and ultramodern by utilizing the lyrical styles and melodies of R&B and jazz in conjunction with the techniques and technology of hip-hop. The result is a new, organic-techno soul music that is highly danceable, listenable and funky.

This album consists of 13 new soulful songs spiced with several live performance clips, skits and spoken word interludes; so it has the flow of a theatrical production. All of the studio tracks were created by Fire, and the whole project was co-produced as a father-son collaboration. So the headline might be Jazz Saxophonist Father and Hip-hop Beat-Making Son Find Common Ground in R&B Music. 18 Hot, spicy, rhythmic, deep-grooved, quirky, genre-bending, idiosyncratic tracks…

Plunky's video for Drop is still burning up the internet. Check him out at PLUNKY.

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