Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Back with a vengeance: Paul Jackson Jr. returns to the spotlight

It’s been nearly six years since Paul Jackson Jr. scored a #1 single at contemporary jazz radio with his version of the Motown classic, “It’s A Shame.” Since then you’ve seen him deploy his chameleon-like “guitarisma” on American Idol each week and on other national television shows, including the Grammy Awards and the NAACP Image Awards. He’s one of the most recorded guitarists who has literally played on more than a thousand albums for a library list of legends including the best-selling album of all-time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Jackson Jr. is finally reassuming center stage armed with his seventh solo album, Lay It Back, which will be released March 17th on the newly formed Branch Records, Inc. The title cut, a bumpin’ bottom-end R&B groove in an edgy futuristic setting from which Jackson Jr. dispenses cool jazz riffs, was sent to radio with a February 16th add date although it’s already amongst the most added singles on the Radio & Records chart.

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