SmoothJazz.com top 100 album chart 🎷 🎹 🎸  - Part 1

Enjoy this Exclusive World Premier Presentation of Larry Carlton & Paul Brown's SOUL SEARCHIN' with SmoothJazz.com Global Founder, Sandy Shore featuring interview segments, song samples and artist song introductions!
Presentation originally aired on SmoothJazz.com Global Radio on Saturday, September 18, 2021.
Album available Worldwide on Shanachie Entertainment September 24, 2021.
On Demand Experience edited by Rowan Meert for SmoothJazz.com, 2021.

Soul Searchin'

Larry Carlton & Paul Brown - Soul Searchin'

ALW ENTERTAINMENT presents The DAVE KOZ and DAVID SANBORN :  Side by Side Tour with special guest Chante Moore and Jonathan Fritzén with back to back shows in Houston and Dallas Texas this August.

In the 25 years since the release of his solo debut album, Saxophonist Dave Koz has received 9 GRAMMY® nominations and had 9 #1 albums on Billboard. David Sanborn has released 24 albums, won 6 GRAMMY® Awards, and has had 8 gold albums and 1 platinum album. Singer and songwriter Chante Moore was heavily influenced by the music of George Duke and Lee Ritenour. Take one of the hottest composers and keyboard players in instrumental pop and you have the Billboard chart-topping artist Jonathan Fritzén. Don’t miss this amazing show!

Dave Koz & David Sanborn : Side By Side

Joyride

Elevation

Tempo (feat. Anesha Birchett)

Daydreams (feat. Cindy Bradley)

Untitled (How Does It Feel)

Intimacy

Ignite

Sanctity

Affection

Step

A song written in NYC with my longtime collaborators Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken, it’s called “Long Goodbyes” and features the absolutely gorgeous piano of one of the all time greats (and a huge musical mentor to me and so many others), the amazing Bob James. There’s a really funny (and completely true) story of how Bob got involved with this song in the first place…click the blue video to hear it, and hear the song. Trust me, you can’t make this stuff up!! :)

Thematically, this song is about that feeling of having to say goodbye to someone we don’t want to say goodbye to. The emotion behind that moment is represented in the song…wistful, but with a tinge of hopefulness, as if maybe this goodbye won’t be forever. It’s a feeling we are all familiar with, especially in the pandemic. One of the most difficult aspects of this period has been not being able to see our loved ones for so long, making those "long goodbyes” inevitable. But one day soon we will all be reunited…and what a reunion it will be!

A New Day

06 Long Goodbye (featuring Bob James)

This is my first album of original material in 10 years, so I didn't plan on recording any covers this time out. But then flipping through the channels, I heard the Beatles' "Yesterday" on the radio. Through the lens of the pandemic, I felt this amazing melody and prophetic lyrics in a completely different way. Oh, how I longed for Yesterday! Haven’t we ALL?! It's always been one of my favorite songs and I'd never gotten the chance to record it. Considering how much all our lives had changed since the pandemics arrival, it seemed like the right idea to include this amazing song in the narrative of the album, for it truly was just yesterday that our lives were completely different. And while we can’t necessarily go back to that same kind of innocence, the prospect of a bright tomorrow is something we all can focus on.

I immediately enlisted the help of genius vocalist / instrumentalist / producer Matt Cusson, who developed the hauntingly beautiful and intimate track…it's Matt who does all those stunning Take Six-style vocals you’ll hear. And then we invited the incomparable Meshell Ndgeocello to play bass…and man, did she turn in an EPIC performance. The bass part alone is a work of art! Click on the yellow image above to hear our version of "Yesterday." I do hope it brings peaceful memories of life before the pandemic, and helps you chart your course for the future as well...for knowing where we’ve come from will help guide us to where we are going.

04 Yesterday

03 Still Got It (featuring Antwaun Stanley of Vulfpeck)

It’s called “The Closer We Get,” and I’m proud to say I wrote this song with the fantastic saxophonist/producer Darren Rahn, who has really become a big star in his own right. Darren and I wrote this tune to be the kind of song you put on and hopefully, it just takes you away…without a care in the world. It’s a romantic song for sure, but the inspiration is also firmly rooted in the quarantine, in that we’ve all had to find new ways to be close to the ones we love in this very surreal time. The pandemic has shown us you don’t really need to be WITH someone to feel close to them.

02 The Closer We Get

“Summertime In NYC”, featuring the amazing Brian McKnight. Yesterday, on SiriusXM Watercolors, mid-day host Talaya spun the song for the very first time on radio. That still is an indescribable thrill for me! And now, it’s YOUR turn to spin the song...it’s available everywhere digitally today! Be sure to click on the red video above to hear a story about “Summertime In NYC" and then I will play it for you live!

01 Summertime In NYC (featuring Brian McKnight)

G-Stream

Hope

Better Days Ahead

Crazy

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SmoothJazz.com top 100 album chart 🎷 🎹 🎸 - Part 1

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