Smooth Jazz Therapy

Brian Culbertson - It's On Tonight

That delicious space someplace between smooth jazz and R & B where rhythm and melody blends with a soulful groove is where many smooth jazz artists aspire to be.  Some achieve it fleetingly, others never at all, yet Brian Culbertson has managed it consistently over a career that is just about to reach even greater heights with the July 26 release of his debut album on GRP, ‘Its On Tonight’.

Larry White - Newport Pacific Records

How does an up and coming independent record company take on the major labels in the all important battle for radio airplay while still finding its own niche in the ever more competitive markets of contemporary and mainstream jazz? This was one of the burning questions that I put to recording artist and President and CEO of Newport Pacific Records Larry White when I talked to him recently.