Happy Release Weekend, Gerald Albright Music and congrats on your feature in iTunes Jazz’ New Music https://goo.gl/seUZLH!
AND we want to celebrate Gerald’s raving charts! “G” is currently:
#1 on the iTunes Jazz Charts US!!!
#49 ON AMAZON MP3!!!
#2 on Amazon Jazz MP3
#4 on Amazon Jazz CD
#135 on Amazon CD
#135 iTunes
Go Gerald! It (was) your birthday! We gonna party like it (was) your Release-Day-Weekend!
To see artist Wadada Leo Smith on the front cover of November’s Downbeat issue brings a huge smile to our faces here at A Train and calls for a congratulations! And to be considered a National Treasure to top it all off? What a way to celebrate the legendary trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist who has not only played across the country and around the globe, but even studied a variety of music cultures from African, Japanese, Indonesian, European to American – maybe the next time we see his face on the cover of a magazine, he will be featured as an
“(Inter)National Treasure”!
We are pleased to announce that our clients and friends from Clippers Music Spain for 6 Latin Grammy nominations:
In the Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album category:
5 tracks on the Universal Music release by Pablo Lopez- El Mundo y Los Amantes Inocentes
In the Best New Artist category:
1 track on the album by Morat
Check out Blktop Project cruise and groove while on their “Concrete Jungle” Tour!
Congratulations to Wadada Leo Smith for being among the eight jazz artists to receive the fifth annual Doris Duke Artist Awards!
According to a press release from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, artists are “appointed in recognition of their creative vitality and ongoing contributions to the fields of dance, jazz and theater.” Awardees will each receive $275,000 “in flexible, multi-year funding as well as financial and legal counseling, professional development activities and peer-to-peer learning opportunities provided by Creative Capital, DDCF’s primary partner in the awards,”.
Read more about the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation here!
Please visit the Willie Royal Caregiver Fund on GoFundMe.com to help the beautiful and talented Willie Royal raise the funds he needs to receive the proper care; he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s over a year ago.
Currently at $4200 of $10K, your gift will certainly touch his life just as his music over the years has touched yours. Please continue to support and share the Willie Royal Caregiver Fund with those whose lives his music has touched as well!
Congratulations to Brazilian pianist and singer/songwriter, Eliane Elias, for winning a Grammy last night for Best Latin Jazz Album! Listen to the award winning album “Made in Brazil” and check out all the buzz on The Rio Times!
Contemporary Jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer Peter Horvath was in for some amazing news worthy of celebrating this past weekend. Released just last Friday January 29, 2015, he already landed #1 on Amazon’s Jazz Fusion sales for his new album “Absolute Reality“! Congratulations and cheers to a successful opening weekend!
To get in on the buzz, check out Peter Horvath’s “Absolute Reality” here http://amzn.to/1PavESB.
Congrats to our A Train Artists whose hits made it in the the Smooth Jazz Top 20 Songs of 2015! Thanks for the announcement Allen Kepler!
#1 Gregg Karukas ” Rio Drive”
#2 Rick Braun “Silk”
#3 Gerald Albright “Because of You”
#8 Jeff Golub “Swagster”
#9 Richard Elliot “Lip Service”
#12 Jeff Golub “Open Up”
#2 Gregg Karukas- Rio Drive
#4 Rick Braun- Silk
#5 Richard Elliot- Lip Service
#6 Gerald Albright- Because of You
#13 Rick Braun- Back to Back
#16 Jeff Golub- Swagster
#23 Gerald Albright- Elegant Nights
#26 Jeff Golub- Open Up
#28 David Benoit- Too In Love
#30 Peter White-Smile
#35 Down to the Bone- The Bounce
#42 Jessy J- the Tango Boy
#45 Peter White- Head Over Heels
#49 Gerald Albright- It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World
Glad to see all our A Train artists on the Billboards Smooth Jazz charts for 2015! Check them out!
