‘Midnight Groove’ from keyboard player Brian Simpson will be his twelfth studio album and ahead of its release comes the hot new radio single ‘Under The Stars’ which even at this early stage seems destined to be one of the contemporary jazz tracks of the year.
This rhythmic gem is everything you would expect from an artist who enjoys status that might best be described as smooth jazz royalty. Not only that, the supporting musicians he routinely enlists for all his projects is a glowing tribute to the regard in which he is universally held.
‘Under The Stars’ is a case in point with Isaiah Collier on sax, Ray Fuller on guitars, ‘go to’ bass player Alex Al, drummer to the stars Michael White, the ubiquitous Ramon Yslas on percussion and Yarone Levy on acoustic guitar.
This is a track that is destined to be right up there in my Smooth Jazz Therapy Top Twenty of 2025.