Sponsored by Payne Pest Management We at Payne Pest Management are so proud and honored to share the news of the release of a very special single by Latin Grammy Award-winning flautist Nestor Torres dedicated to our Co-Founder and former CEO Willie Payne Jr., called “Thank You Willie.” Payne Pest Management has supported live music…
By Melanie Maxwell We are sad to report that guitarist Nick Colionne passed away on Jan. 1, 2022. The Chicago native died unexpectedly at a local hospital. His cause of death has not yet been disclosed. As a teen, Colionne honed his guitar skills playing with The Staples Singers, The Impressions, Curtis Mayfield and Natalie…
Willie was a positive person, and rather than mourn his loss with sadness, he’d probably prefer that we celebrate the fun times we had with him. The post In Memory of Willie Payne appeared first on Smooth Jazz News.
By Melanie Maxwell Heidi Klum may be the queen of Halloween for the fashion and acting crowd, but in the smooth jazz world, Camella Elliot and her GRAMMY-nominated saxophonist husband, Richard Elliot, slay the holiday with dragons, skeletons, ghouls, goblins and a DW3 dance party! Camella’s decor, both inside their home and throughout their vineyard…
Partying down in Elliot town on Halloween! Spooky and spectacular is the type of Halloween bash Camella and Richard Elliot threw last Saturday night. Nearly every inch of their North San Diego County ranch was decorated in spirited, scary and sometimes shocking flair: From the entrance of their home filled with skulls, angry pumpkins, a…
Back in February of 2020, during what might be described as the quiet before the COVID storm, Australian sax-man Gary Honor hit the scene with the Latin flavoured ‘The Pulse’. Produced by Skinny Hightower, it featured Cheili Minucci on guitar and was intended as the first single from what was to become ‘Momentum’. Then came…
Hot on the heels of the critically acclaimed California Funk Machine Volume 1 and ahead of Volume 2, that is expected to hit the streets later this year, comes a tasty interpretation of Herbie Hancock’s 1983 blockbuster ‘Rockit’. California Funk Machine is not just a collection of music. California Funk Machine is a concept, a…
When, in June 2021, pianist, composer and producer Brian Simpson released the excellent ‘All That Matters’, I immediately identified it as one of the best albums of the smooth jazz year with the Smooth Jazz Therapy top track being the beat driven ‘What I’m Waiting For’ that came complete with outstanding sax from Steve Alanis.…
Released in May of 2021 on Trippin ‘N’ Rhythm, ‘Hear At Last’ from UK based guitarist Mark Jaimes was a project that had been long in the making. Now it is being given a new lease of life with the servicing to radio of the easy grooving single ‘ABC’ that finds Jaimes at his foot…
Following on from guitarist Norman Brown’s 2020 project ‘Heart To Heart’ comes the highly anticipated ‘Lets Get Away’, a fine amalgam of jazz, R&B, pop and blues all delivered with the sort of style that has become Brown’s calling card. Produced and mixed by Paul Brown the collection opens with the exquisite ‘Back At Ya’…