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Review - Demo Cates - I'll Try Something New  October
10, 2003 - Being an old Motown song, more specifically a Smokey
Robinson tune you
know that this one has been tried by many. Of course, Smokey and the
Miracles did it in the early sixties and there were covers by the
Temptations and Diana Ross and the Supremes. So why would Toronto's
Saxophonist/vocalist Demo
Cates even try this
one when it's already been done to perfection? Probably for the same
reason Michael
McDonald recorded
his Motown album because they can pull it off! Covering a Motown tune
is kind of like doing a Beatles cover, it's not the Holy Grail but
it can make you look foolish if you don't have the chops. Read
more of the review.Linda Nash introduces Tidal Wave Records  October
9, 2003 - It's sometimes said that being a Jazz musician can be a
thankless job especially if you were playing a few decades ago. If
you think playing the music was tough selling it was even harder.
Thankfully, the Jazz and Smooth Jazz worlds are slowly becoming more
marketable by the season but we have some unsung heroes in the format
to thank, people like Linda Nash. In the seventies as a promo rep
for the now legendary CTI label Nash was the one knocking on the sometimes
not so friendly doors trying to get the music heard. Fast forward
to 2003 and Nash still has a passion for the genres of Jazz and Smooth
Jazz and this time around she's the boss having started her own label
Tidal Wave Records. We chatted with Nash via phone in September 2003.
Read the interview.Demo Cates Releases Single On New Canadian Smooth Jazz Label August
26, 2003 - Toronto singer and Sax wiz Demo Cates is back with the
new vocal single "I'll Try Something New," the old Smokey
Robinson hit. It's the first release from Tidal Wave records, a new
Canadian Smooth Jazz label created by one of the marketing innovators
of the genre in Canada, Linda Nash. She worked with the very popular
CTI records in the early seventies laying the groundwork for the rise
of commercial Jazz via acts like George Benson and Grover Washington
Jr. Nash told Smooth Jazz Now, "Demo is an extremely polished
singer songwriter, saxophonist and his moving to Canada has definitely
been the United States' loss and Canada's gain." Cates is originally
from Detroit. Nash says Cates first album on Tidal Wave will be released
in the next two months. Titled "Finding Demo" Nash says
"We went with a little inspiration from the Pixar mega hit "Finding
Nemo" so new fans who don't him won't call him demo as in demo
tape, it's actually Demo as in Nemo." The new single arranged
by Toronto artist/writer/producer Eddie
Bullen is two parts
can-con. Tidal Wave records a division of Crossover music Inc. is
the first all Smooth Jazz label in Canada. For product contact Linda
Nash at nashthehitmaker@cs.com |
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