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David Benoit's next CD "Heroes" Set To Be Released in May 27, 2008
May 2, 2008 - Famous contemporary jazz pianist, composer and producer David Benoit is set to release his brand new album entitled "Heroes" for Peak Records in May 27, 2008. |
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David Benoit's next CD "Heroes" Set To Be Released in May 27, 2008
 May 2, 2008 - Famous contemporary jazz pianist, composer and producer David Benoit is set to release his brand new album entitled "Heroes" for Peak Records in May 27, 2008. This album is Benoit's homage to his musical heroes and includes the famous tracks "Your Song," "Mountain Dance," "Light My Fire," "Waltz For Debbie," and "Human Nature." Composers and artists represented are Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, The Doors, The Beatles, Dave Grusin, and Horace Silver. The album starts with famous Michael Jackson's track "Human Nature". The album includes two new Benoit compositions, including a tribute to Dave Brubeck, "A Twisted Little Etude." |
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 In addition to his contemporary jazz work, Benoit has established himself as a classical composer, conductor, and artist. He is currently serving his 7th season with the Asia America Symphony Association as Music Director & Conductor of the Asia America Symphony Orchestra and Asia America Youth Orchestra. He will be debuting his latest concert work, "Dolores Del Carmen" for Spanish Guitar and Orchestra on June 7, 2008, with the Asia America Symphony Orchestra. He will be performing over the course of the season with famous Japanese sax player Sadao Watanabe, Japanese American pianist Jon Nakamatsu, and one of the world's top ukulele players, Jake Shimabukuro.
Five-time Grammy nominee David Benoit has arranged, conducted and performed music for many popular pop and jazz artists over the years, including Russ Freeman and the Rippingtons, Kenny Loggins, Patti Austin, Dave Koz, Kenny Rankin, Faith Hill, David Lanz, Cece Winans, David Pack, David Sanborn, and Brian McKnight. - by Akbar Nour
For more information: www.benoit.com; www.asiaamericasymphony.org |
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Dave Koz Gets Ready for Summer Tour
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Smooth
Jazz Christmas 2005
 September
28, 2005 - Smooth Jazz artists Dave
Koz, Brian
McKnight, Chaka
Khan, Eric
Marienthal, Vanessa
Williams, Norman
Brown, David
Benoit, Toni Braxton, Rick Braun,
and Gerald
Albright, will all contribute to this holiday
seasons "A Charlie Brown Christmas Tribute".
The album is due October 4th from Peak
Records.
Anita Baker will also release a holiday album with Blue Note.
"Christmas Fantasy" hits stores October
4th, and will feature appearances by Joe
Sample, Larry
Carlton, Nathan
East, Ricky Lawson, and all four members of The Yellowjackets.
Barry Eastman, who co-produces here, also wrote
three original tunes for the outing.
Diana Krall will deliver her first Christmas album in 2005.
The outing, "Christmas Songs" will be
released on Verve November 1st.
Dave Koz and friends, David Benoit, Patti Austin,
and Jonathan
Butler will be hitting the road on "A Smooth
Jazz Christmas Tour". Dates are available on www.davekoz.com - by Cheryl
Philips
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Smooth
Jazz Goes Cruising Crazy
 February
21, 2005 - Seems like everyone is cruising these
days. Smooth Jazz Cruise pioneer Warren
Hill has just completed his second sell out
full charter while, almost at the same time, Bob
James was sailing on a musical journey out
of San Diego. Later in the year Rick
Braun is leading a top-notch line up on a
seven-day trip out of Galveston and Warren Hill's
2006 event is already proving to be a big early
seller. Sandwiched among all this is the "Dave
Koz & Friends At Sea" cruise that
sails from San Diego on November 5 and is being
managed by the same organization that made Hills
last event such a success. Calling at destinations
that include Mazatlan, Cabo San Lucas and Peurto
Vallarta, Koz has assembled a line up every bit
as good as one would expect from this master of
live Smooth Jazz. Artists already confirmed, and
who performed on the Hill cruise, are Wayman
Tisdale, Kirk
Whalum, Jeff
Golub, and Jonathan
Butler. Joining them will be Marc
Antoine, Patti
Austin, David
Benoit, Chris Botti, George Duke, Jeffrey Osborne and Praful. It's
a line up that promises to produce seven days
of high quality Smooth Jazz. - By Denis
Poole
David
Benoit Excited About New Orchestral Album
 December
4, 2004 - Like Chris
Botti, David
Benoit is diggin' the strings. The pianist's
next album will be a whole orchestral affair.
Set for a spring 2005 release "Orchestral
Stories" is now being recorded in Prague,
Czechoslovakia and will feature the Czech National
Symphony Orchestra. Like Chill music strings could
be a new trend for Smooth Jazz artists considering
Botti is sitting pretty at #37 on the Billboard
Top 200. Benoit has had the album in the works
for many years and he's a natural, he performed
numerous times with Orchestras, has written music
of the ilk and he has studied conducting. Benoit
is also the Music Director and Founder for the
Asia America Youth Honor Orchestra. The project
works with students 11 to 18 years old.
Russ
Freeman Reunites with David Benoit on Project 2
 June
29, 2004 - Ten years after they released their first
Project CD David
Benoit and Russ
Freeman are finally back with their follow up
simply titled 'The
Benoit-Freeman Project 2.' The album released
on Freeman's Peak label has been out since Tuesday
June 22. The two musicians go way back when they
worked together on the first Rippingtons album 'Moonlighting'
in 1986. Since then Freeman has lead the Rippingtons to being one of the top acts in Smooth Jazz.  Though
Benoit has made guest appearances with the Ripps
the pianist has had a long successful solo career
having released over thirty albums since 1977. Benoit's
last album 'Right Here Right Now' was officially
his last for GRP/Verve and appropriately he has
signed on to Freeman's Peak records. Benoit says
his next album will be released either late 2004
or early 2005. The Benoit -Freeman Project have
announced a short tour so far. Click here for the
details. http://www.peak-records.com/tour.html
David
Benoit To Release New Album in Late Summer
 May
2, 2003 - Keyboardist David Benoit will be in good
company on his next album. The new project due in
late summer will feature trumpeter Rick
Braun who's producing the project as well as
saxophonists Mindi
Abair and Dave
Koz and guitarist Peter
White. Like Pat
Metheny on his soon to released album, Benoit
will feature a version of Norah
Jones' Grammy-winning
hit "Don't Know Why." Benoit is also working
on a song in tribute to the events of 911. Benoit
has just been nominated for two National
Smooth Jazz Awards: keyboardist of the year,
and album of the year for his 2002 release Fuzzy
Logic.
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