Duncan Butler

Duncan Alson Butler,  from Greensboro, North Carolina. He comes from a family that is musically talented which attributes  his music ability. Duncan’s father, the late Charles Alson Butler, recorded several gospel songs with the King Stars Quartet. His mother and siblings have been involved in music as music teachers, church musicians, and band members.

Early Beginnings…

Butler’s musical journey began at the age of nine when his family recorded “I’m Looking for a Home,” which was written by his mother. In his high school years, he taught himself to play piano and he played in the school orchestra for six years. Later he continued his musical career performing in different venues, such as the Apollo Theater and participated several musical competitions.


In 1987, he placed as the regional winner of the Budweiser Showcase. Duncan was also the first place winner in 1999 for the Great American Gospel Fest in N. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In 2000, Butler was a featured artist on Inspiration across America, a national radio show. Throughout the years, Butler has been privileged to perform for Maya Angelo, Jessie Jackson, Martin Luther King, III, Maxine Waters and other musical producers and artists.

 Phone: (336) 272-7529
Website-  http://www.musicbyduncan.com/
Email: musicbyduncan@gmail.com

 Phone: (336) 272-7529
Website-  http://www.musicbyduncan.com/
Email: musicbyduncan@gmail.com

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Ambrosia

Ambrosia an American rock band formed in Southern California in 1970. Ambrosia had five Top Forty hit singles between such as Biggest Part of Me”, “You’re the Only Woman”,“How Much I Feel.” The group was founded as a quartet with guitarist/vocalist David Pack, bassist/vocalist Joe Puerta, keyboardist Christopher North, and drummer Burleigh Drummond. They chose the name Ambrosia in 1970 to represent a vision of their music: all shades, textures, colors and styles. While Ambrosia had many radio hits in the 1970s, much of the material on their five albums is progressive in nature.

David Pack's 1985 solo album Anywhere You Go actually featured both Puerta and Drummond (alongside Kerry Livgren, Michael McDonald, Stanley Clarke, and Toto's Michael Porcaro), and the band reunited several years later. Several tours followed during the '90s, along with new recordings featured on the band's 1997 Anthology release. Pack left after 2001 for additional solo projects, and the band released the concert album Live a year later without him. Read More

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Boz Scaggs

Grammy-Award winning rock legend Boz Scaggs showcases both original songs and choice covers in his new album, MEMPHIS out March 5, 2013 on 429 Records. Produced by Steve Jordan (John Mayer), Memphis was recorded at Willie Mitchell legendary Royal Studio in Memphis, where the late Mitchell recorded Al Green and other hit music artists. Joining Scaggs on MEMPHIS are Willie Weeks (bass), Ray Parker Jr. (guitars), Spooner Oldham (keyboards), the Memphis Horns, Lester Snell (string arrangements) and Steve Jordan (drums). Read More

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Art of Noise

Art of Noise (also The Art of Noise
An avant-garde synthpop group formed in early 1983 by engineer/producer Gary Langan and programmer J. J. Jeczalik, along with arranger Anne Dudley, producer Trevor Horn and music journalist Paul Morley. The group's mostly instrumental compositions were novel melodic sound collages based on digital sampler technology, which was new at the time. Inspired by turn-of-the-20th-century revolutions in music, the Art of Noise were initially packaged as a faceless anti- or non-group, blurring the distinction between the art and its creators. The band is noted for innovative use of electronics and computers in pop music and particularly for innovative use of sampling.
The name of the group alludes to the essay "The Art of Noises" by noted futurist Luigi Russolo. From the earliest releases on ZTT, the band referred to itself as both Art of Noise and The Art of Noise. Official and unofficial releases and press material use both versions. The group is perhaps best known currently for the international Top 20 singles "Kiss" and "Peter Gunn", the latter of which won a 1986 Grammy Award.

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Kid Creole and the Coconuts

Kid Creole and the Coconuts have been entertaining crowds around the world. Inspired by Cab Calloway and the Hollywood films of the 30's and 40's, the Kid fills out his colorful zoot suits with style and grace, dancing onstage with his inimitable, relentless and self-proclaimed cool.

DANIEL GUANUCO

DANIEL GUANUCO A Professional Musician, Guitarist, Guitar Teacher from Cordoba - Argentina, has performed with Jazz Flat Trio and Pardon Me Duet. He works currently as a Guitar Teacher in prestigious conservatories and music schools in Argentina. In addition, he teaches private guitar lessons and workshops in several cities in Argentina. Specializing criticisim has refered to Daniel Guanuco by saying, "No unncessary demonstration of virtuosity, he improvises subtly and distilly melodic ideas."
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Tony Exum Jr.

                  
TONY EXUM, JR. brings to mind the soufulness of David Sanborn, the sensual sounds of the late Grover Washington Jr. and the silky sounds of late George Howard.

Tony Exum, Jr. felt much the same in releasing his debut album of that name.

 In 1996, Exum joined with Meadowlark Jivin', a funk-filled jazz/blues/soul group local to Ft. Collins, CO and spearheaded by Brian Hull and, continued touring and recording with them for 7 years. Throughout it all, he had also stepped out on his own within the Colorado music scene and soon found himself opening for and performing with such notables as the Temptations, the Four Tops, the Manhattans, Chieli Minucci & Special EFX, Nelson Rangell, Marion Meadows, and many others.  Website 




 

George Benson

Greatest Hits Of All has a nicely varied, mix of 19 tracks that are very well written songs by this clearly talented artist. With many of the songs displaying a lot of the kind emotion that makes for a really great listen. Seemingly drawing from what I can only imagine are him own real life experiences. At different points touching on the most real emotions like love, heartbreak, pain, failed relationships and unattainable romance. They’re all here.

After four years of touring and developing “An Unforgettable, A Tribute to Nat King Cole,” the legendary George Benson makes his most inspired album: My Inspiration: A Tribute to Nat King Cole. The recording is one of the most meaningful of Benson’s career and is a testament to the spirit of Cole’s timeless body of work. Benson’s heartfelt renditions of some of Cole’s greatest songs with Nelson Riddle arrangements and the 42-piece Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra are complemented by duets with Tony Award winner Idina Menzel and rising star Judith Hill, along with a special collaboration with multi-GRAMMY and Pulitzer Prize-winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Video for promo use.

Al Jarreau & George Benson

Al Jarreau  

Jarreau was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the fifth of six children. His website refers to Reservoir Avenue, the name of the street where he lived. His father was a minister and singer, and his mother was a church pianist. He and his family sang together in church concerts and in benefits, and he and his mother performed at PTA meetings. Read More

George Benson- Benson was born and raised in the Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.At the age of 7, Benson first played the ukulele in a corner drug store, for which he was paid a few dollars. At the age of 8, he played guitar in an unlicensed nightclub on Friday and Saturday nights, but the police soon closed the club down.  At the age of 10, Benson recorded his first single record, She Makes Me Mad, with RCA-Victor in New York, under the name Little Georgie. Read More

Rick Braun

Rick Braun’s done just about everything, from backing the likes of Rod Stewart and Sade to stepping out into the spotlight as a vocalist and a master of the trumpet and flugelhorn. The Allentown, Pennsylvania-born Braun began playing music in elementary school, ultimately winding up at the prestigious Eastman School of Music. There he hooked up with like-minded musicians to form a jazz-fusion combo, Auracle. Braun’s first big break came when he composed “Here With Me,” a Top 20 hit for REO Speedwagon. He soon became a highly regarded pop sideman, touring and recording with the likes of Rod Stewart, War, Sade, Tina Turner, Natalie Cole, and Tom Petty. The trumpeter became a NAC fixture with his debut, Intimate Secrets. His records have ranked in the Top 10 of Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Chart with Kisses in the Rain reigning at #1 for 11 weeks and his singles have held the #1 position on the R&R NAC/Smooth J Jazz album charts.

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Hawai‘i state universities and colleges, Hawai‘i Academy of Recording Arts, a non-profit organization formed in 1982 to promote Hawai‘i’s recording industry and the music of Hawai‘i Compilation Album "Crossing"as we feature "In My Dreams and The Moon"now playing.

Daft Funk with Nathan East

New Release March 25 2014/ Nathan East

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