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The Late Show's very own Jon Batiste & Stay Human fittingly wrap up 2019 with a performance of 'Auld Lang Syne.'
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Merry Christmas from JazzHQ #jazz
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White Christmas - The Drifters (Video/cartoon)
Sung by The Drifters. Cartoon by Joshua Held.
Featuring Bill Pinkney on lead bass and Clyde McPhatter on tenor.
Sing along:
Ooh
Doop doop, doop doo doop
Ooh
Doop doop, doop doo doop
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know,
Where those treetops glisten, and children listen,
To hear sleigh bells in the snow, the snow.
Then, I-I-I am dreaming of a white Christmas,
With every Christmas card I write,
May your days, may your days, may your days be merry and bright,
And may all your Christmases be white.
I-I-I am dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know,
Where the treetops glisten, and children listen,
To hear sleigh bells in the snow.
I-I-I am dreaming of a white Christmas,
With every Christmas card I write,
May your days, may your days, may your days be merry and bright,
And may all your Christmases be white.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells all the way.
Ooooh.
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Gina Kronstadt’s therapeutic self-expression #jazz
The jazz singer-songwriter’s adult pop album, “October Comes Too Soon,” drops March 20.
Jazz singer-songwriter Gina Kronstadt was in a vulnerable head space. Saddled with the physical challenge of an eight-month recovery from multiple shoulder surgeries that could have spelled the end of her 43-year career as a first-call violinist, Kronstadt turned to writing as therapy, which provided a much needed creative outlet after feeling stifled by not being able to play her beloved instrument for so long. Opening up her heart, she wrote a collection of intimate vignettes that give voice to some of her own relationships and romantic experiences. She’ll share the eight-song “October Comes Too Soon,” on March 20, her third album that she produced and arranged.
Kronstadt’s soothing vocals and poetic lyricism are paired with a sensual aural palette consisting of various hues of jazz, sophisticated pop and funky R&B grooves. Her graceful delivery, rhythmic phrasing and the ability to hold and bend notes into shadowy swatches make her expressive voice as much of an instrument as the astute accompaniment she receives from top-drawer players including keyboardists John Beasley and Nicholas Semrad, bassist Benjamin Shepherd, drummer Joel Taylor, trumpeter Michael Stever, saxophonist/woodwind player Bob Sheppard and a 12-piece string section. Together, they pave the way for Kronstadt’s tales to venture off on experiential journeys through heartache, longing, introspection, pondering, hope and head-over-heels joy. Each song is personal, honest and quite real. For Kronstadt, she needs to feel something deeply in order to write and her experiences through the course of a trying year have provided a fount of inspiration.
“Every song I've created comes out after being inspired and then I literally have no choice but to let the music out. If I'm not moved by something or someone, there are no songs. This record is no different. It's my personal therapy, and I felt such focus and love while creating it. Also, since I immediately hear the full intention of the song, I choose not to have another producer, arranger or singer, etc. because of the desire to express my true vision. It's simply just me expressing who I am,” said Kronstadt, who will launch the FallOff Records album with a concert performance in Los Angeles on March 22 at Herb Alpert’s Vibrato Grill, Jazz, Etc.
“October Comes Too Soon” is a crossover album that will be promoted on multiple jazz radio formats. While straight-ahead jazz outlets will be able to take their pick of selections from the record, smooth/contemporary jazz radio will receive “The Threat Of Love,” a sultry confessional about a seductive man who possesses intoxicating allure.
Ever since her first film score gig playing violin for 5-time Grammy winner and 6-time Academy Awards nominee Lalo Schifrin, Kronstadt has cultivated an unparalleled resume of performing on soundtracks and scores for blockbuster movies (“Star Trek,” Pirates of the Caribbean,” “The Incredibles” and “Despicable Me”) and iconic television shows (from “Mad Men” and “Lost” to “American Idol,” “The Voice” and “America’s Got Talent”). She’s played concert and recording dates with A-listers Nina Simone, Burt Bacharach, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, George Harrison, Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Aerosmith, Beyoncé, Usher, Taylor Swift, Gloria Estefan, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion, James Brown, Carrie Underwood, David Sanborn and Chris Botti. Her film session assignments have been with some of Hollywood’s finest composers such as Thomas Newman (14-time Academy Awards nominee), Michael Giacchino (an Oscar, Emmy and 3-time Grammy winner) and Hans Zimmer (4-time Grammy winner, 2-time Golden Globes winner and an Academy Awards winner). Kronstadt has performed on all the major awards shows such as the Academy Awards, Grammys, Emmys, American Music Awards, Soul Train Awards and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
As gratifying as the high-profile work is accompanying others, the artist longed to convey her own musical vision. Kronstadt finally dropped her debut disc, “Come Over,” in 2013. Radio airplay encouraged her to release an earlier offering, “Walk My Way,” the following year, which was originally recorded in 1997. A few years ago, she issued the one-off single, “That Way.” Resilient and back in good health, “October Comes Too Soon” merits Kronstadt the attention, accolades and admiration typically reserved for her clients.
“October Comes Too Soon” contains the following songs:
“A Simple Man”
“IRL”
“The Threat Of Love”
“Forever In A Row”
“October Comes Too Soon”
“Love Game”
“Maybe I Trusted”
“Who’ll Save You”
For more information, please visit http://ginakronstadt.com.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Special EFX eager to get into some all-star "Hanky Panky" on Valentine's Day #jazz
The world jazz collective is set to drop the “All Stars” album on February 14
preceded by the radio single “Hanky Panky Boys.”
Mainstay of the GRAMMY® nominated collective that is Special EFX, guitarist Chieli Minucci has spent a lot of time on the road the last few years with a revolving lineup of celebrated musicians who bring the band’s world jazz brand to life. When Minucci began writing the group’s 21st album that he produced, he came up with the idea of inviting each player from the rotating touring ensemble to perform on the album and even composed material with specific musicians in mind. The luminous result is “All Stars,” a title that is a nod to an accomplished supporting cast. The imaginative collage of contemporary jazz, world music and blues drops on February 14 on the Trippin ‘N’ Rhythm imprint. Radio will get its first sampling in the form of “Hanky Panky Boys,” a groovy, retro cool tune that finds Minucci’s guitar and organ getting into a heap of mischief with saxophonist Eric Marienthal.
“It was the first tune that I wrote specifically for the album and it doesn’t really sound like Special EFX, whatever that might be! I wanted to write something a bit different that we could play at jazz festival jam sessions, a piece that kind of sounds like a standard. Writing it got me fired up and inspired to write other music for the project,” said Minucci, who co-founded Special EFX 35 years ago with the late percussionist George Jinda and has amassed a host of Billboard No. 1 singles.
Minucci wrote thirteen songs for “All Stars” and scrapbooked the talented artists who brought his eclectic vision into focus along with his New York City-based core band members Jay Rowe (keyboards), Jerry Brooks (bass) and Joel Rosenblatt (drums). Among the dozens of guest stars on the album are violinist Regina Carter, saxophonist/flautist Nelson Rangell, trumpeter Lin Rountree, multi-horn player David Mann, Spyro Gyra drummer Lionel Cordew, bassist Gerald Veasley, keyboardist Lao Tizer, fretless bassist-vocalist Fernando Saunders, a longtime Special EFX family member who has a history with the outfit dating back to their formative years; and 2019 Soul Tracks Female Vocalist of the Year Maysa Leak, who soars mightily on a version of Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing.”
“I grew up listening to Jimi Hendrix. During a show we did two years ago with Maysa, I asked if she’d like to try singing ‘Little Wing’ and I was totally blown away. I asked her about making a recording of it and when she agreed, I got serious about the arrangement. I wanted to pay homage to the rock aspect of Jimi Hendrix. I also wanted to do something that was modern R&B. I think it came out unusual and I’m curious to hear how people react to it. I don’t really do cover tunes too often so this was different,” said Minucci, who will lead a revolving Special EFX lineup on a busy touring schedule in support of “All Stars” beginning on the eve of the album release date at Yoshi’s Oakland.
One song on “All Stars” is especially personal to Minucci. “‘Sweet Memories Of You’ is a solo guitar piece that has a deeper meaning for me because I wrote it around the time my mom was passing a few years ago. It’s one of the pieces I felt would be important to include on the record - not only to break up the mood and texture of the listen, but also to give people something a little more contemplative in the middle of the record.”
As the listener gets deeper into the album, the depth and breadth of Minucci’s compositional and arranging skills are on full display. “Kampala” was written on a borrowed acoustic guitar in a Ugandan hotel room during a concert tour. Minucci calls the two-part “Great Escape” “a labor of love that was written in odd meter because that’s part of the style I grew up listening to and really love. ‘Flows Like Water’ is a bit jazzier than what I typically do with Special EFX. I wanted to let people hear something a little bit different. I like to give people who buy our records and come to our shows a variety of styles. ‘Flows Like Water’ is a really nice representation of how tight the band has become over the many years we’ve worked together.”
“All Stars” concludes with “One Stick And A Stone” - the stick being Steve Adelson’s Chapman Stick that engages Minucci’s guitar intimately. “It’s a world groove piece reminiscent of what my late great partner, George Jinda, used to do on percussion. I wanted to end on a nostalgic note, something very true to the Special EFX sound.”
In addition to crafting Special EFX records, Minucci has released nearly a dozen solo collections. A guitar player gifted with an extensive sonic palate and technical proficiency, he has recorded and performed with a galaxy of A-list pop, rock, R&B and jazz stars spanning Celine Dion, Lou Reed, Chaka Khan, Lionel Richie, Jennifer Lopez, Jewel, Mark Anthony, Michael Bolton, Kirk Whalum, Jeff Lorber, Norman Brown, Rick Braun, Marion Meadows and Mindi Abair. Nominated for ten Emmy Awards for the music he created for television shows such as “The Guiding Light,” “Dancing With The Stars,” “American Idol” and “Good Morning America” (theme), Minucci is a three-time Emmy winner. He has also composed music for film (“Bowfinger,” “Legally Blond” and “Panic”) as well as stage (“Peter Pan,” “Dora the Explorer” and “Thomas the Tank Engine”).
On the other side of the holidays, Minucci is eager to begin introducing the music from “All Stars” to listeners. “I think it’s a really interesting sounding record. All over the place stylistically as I always do, but I enjoy that aspect. It was really intensive making this record.”
“All Stars” contains the following songs:
“Mr. Marzipan” “Wake Up”
“Sunset Passion Juice” “Sweet Memories Of You”
“Hanky Panky Boys” “Kampala”
“Little Wing” “Great Escape (part 1)”
“Empathy” “Great Escape (part 2)”
“Two Dancing” “Flows Like Water”
“Arise” “One Stick And A Stone”
Catch Special EFX featuring Chieli Minucci on tour on the following dates (partial list below):
January 24 & 25 Bermuda Jazz Festival Devonshire, Bermuda
February 13 Yoshi’s Oakland Oakland, CA
February 15 Spaghettini Seal Beach, CA
February 16 Aliante Casino Hotel & Spa N. Las Vegas, NV
February 18 Blues Alley Washington, DC
February 19 Middle C Jazz Charlotte, NC
February 20 Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts Winter Park, FL
February 21 & 22 The Velvet Note Alpharetta, GA
March 11 Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN
March 12 Soiled Dove Underground Denver, CO
March 13 The Sofia Sacramento, CA
March 14 Tower Theatre Fresno, CA
March 21 Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts Melbourne, FL
April 2-4 Boscov’s Berks Jazz Festival Reading, PA
April 11 The Cutting Room New York, NY
For more information and the complete concert itinerary, please visit http://www.specialefxmusic.com and https://chielimusic.com.
Blooming beautifully: urban-jazz pianist Kayla Waters tops the Billboard singles chart for the third time with “Full Bloom” #jazz
Urban-Jazz pianist Kayla Waters is blooming into a consistent hitmaker. The Washington, DC-based musician-songwriter-producer-arranger went No. 1 on the Billboard national airplay chart dated December 14 with “Full Bloom,” which became the third chart-topping single of the emerging artist’s budding recording career.
“Full Bloom” appears on Waters’ sophomore album, “Coevolve,” issued last year by Trippin ‘N’ Rhythm Records. The album is a conceptual collection of songs loosely mirroring Waters’ own growth and development – musically, personally and spiritually. On “Full Bloom,” she uses the metaphor of a plant to tell the story of its evolution from seedling to flourishing flora. Writing with Michael Broening, who crafted the rhythm track, Waters’ lush piano melodies are permeated with fervent joy and exuberance just like the artist herself. Midtrack, guitarist and labelmate Nick Colionne adds an electric guitar solo like a nourishing ray of sunshine.
“Full Bloom’s” chart coronation concludes another year of significant growth for Waters, a classically trained pianist and a Howard University music school graduate. She spent half her weekends in 2019 on the road performing at marquee music festivals, theaters and clubs. Highlights include her debuts at Boscov’s Berks Jazz Festival, Seabreeze Jazz Festival, Newport Beach Jazz Festival, Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival and the Algarve Jazz Festival, the last of which marked her European premiere. Waters’ 2020 concert calendar is already booking up with dates into September. Next month, she hits the high seas for the first time to perform aboard the Capital Jazz SuperCruise and in June, she will make her first appearance at the Napa Valley Jazz Getaway.
Waters introduced herself with self-confidence in 2017 with “I Am,” the first single from her debut album, “Apogee.” The single became her first Billboard No. 1 hit. The imaginative set earned her the Rising Star in Jazz award from the Black Women in Jazz and the Arts and Best Jazz Artist honors at DC’s Wammies. A year later, Waters scored her second consecutive No. 1 single with “Zephyr” from “Coevolve.”
Still in her 20s, Waters’ artistic vision, creativity, old-soul depth and sophisticated sonic palette that incorporates improvisational jazz, R&B grooves and inspired gospel tones have made her a welcome addition to the contemporary jazz scene. Add to it Waters’ ambition, attention to detail, alluring beauty, charismatic charm, devotional nature and fashion-model style, she represents a brand with the true potential to transcend far beyond music. Her plans for 2020 include releasing her third album in the fall and opening her PuriKey Productions to writing and producing music for other recording artists.
Monday, December 16, 2019
"Scheming" - The Jazz Defenders - Released Dec 6 on Haggis Records - #jazz
The Jazz Defenders‘ debut album “Scheming” is released on Haggis Records, the label started by UK funk band The Haggis Horns. Jazz has always been a massive part of what The Haggis Horns are about so this marriage was the perfect fit.
The Jazz Defenders produce music that is a modern soul-jazz slant on classic bebop and hard bop, effortlessly channeling the spirit of the golden Blue Note era of jazz. The band was founded by George Cooper, one of the UK’s most formidable jazz pianists, who at only 31 years of age has already amassed a comprehensive repertoire of working partnerships including Hans Zimmer, Nigel Kennedy, U2 and The Haggis Horns.
In 2015 George set about choosing some of the finest musicians the UK has to offer to form a group that have since wowed audiences with their superb musicianship and virtuosity. For their debut album, The Jazz Defenders offer an original set of tunes written by Cooper and each member of the ensemble.
Opener “Top Down Tourism” immediately sets the tone from the first notes of George Cooper‘s piano, played in a style reminiscent of Dave Brubeck‘s infectious riffs. “Everybody’s Got Something” is a swingin’ number based around the fun exchange between sax and trumpet, while the titletrack switches things up with swirling organ taking the place of the piano.
In “Late” the bass provides a solid groove for horns and piano to explore melodically, and things take a latin-tinged turn in “Costa Del Lol“, whose title underlines the playfulness of the entire album. “Rosie Karima” slows down the tempo and provides a beautifully intimate and delicate performance, and closing things off is the hypnotic and cool “Brown Down“.
From the first to last track it’s evident The Jazz Defenders thoroughly enjoyed making this album. There’s a connective thread of irony throughout “Scheming“, proving jazz doesn’t have to take itself too seriously to be of the highest quality
Monday, December 09, 2019
Smooth Jazz Chart - Weekly Top 20 - December 9, 2019 #jazz
TW - LW - Artist - Album - (Label)
1 - 1 - Eric Darius - "Breakin' Thru" - (SagiDarius Music)
2 - 2 - Paul Hardcastle - "Hardcastle VIII" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
3 - 6 - Lisa Addeo - "Listen To This" - (Little Black Dress)
4 - 7 - Najee - "Center Of The Heart" - (Shanachie Entertainment)
5 - 3 - David Benoit - "David Benoit and Friends" - (Shanachie Entertainment)
6 - 5 - U-Nam - "The Love Vault (Future Love Part 2)" - (Skytown)
7 - 4 - Kim Scott - "Free To Be" - (Inntervision Records)
8 - 8 - Dave Koz & Friends - "Summer Horns II: From A to Z" - (Concord)
9 - 11 - Nick Colionne - "Just Being Me" - (Trippin N' Rhythm)
10 - 9 - Adam Hawley - "Double Vision" - (Kalimba)
11 - 12 - Blake Aaron - "Color And Passion" - (Innervision)
12 - 15 - Julian Vaughn - "Supreme" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
13 - 14 - Cindy Bradley - "I'm All Ears" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
14 - 10 - Brian Culbertson - "Winter Stories" - (BCM)
15 - 18 - Brendan Rothwell - "Sentiment" - (Independent)
16 - 19 - Rick Braun - "Crossroads" - (Shanachie Entertainment)
17 - 16 - Brian Bromberg - "Thicker Than Water" - (Mack Avenue Records)
18 - 13 - FOUR80EAST - "Four On The Floor" - (Boomtang)
19 - 22 - Herb Alpert - "Over The Rainbow' -(Herb Alpert Presents)
20 - 20 - Joyce Cooling - "Living Out Loud" - (Funky Kitchen)
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Monday, December 02, 2019
Smooth Jazz Chart - Weekly Top 20 - December 2, 2019 #jazz
TW - LW - Artist - Album - (Label)
1 - 1 - Eric Darius - "Breakin' Thru" - (SagiDarius Music)
2 - 3 - Paul Hardcastle - "Hardcastle VIII" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
3 - 2 - David Benoit - "David Benoit and Friends" - (Shanachie Entertainment)
4 - 4 - Kim Scott - "Free To Be" - (Inntervision Records)
5 - 8 - U-Nam - "The Love Vault (Future Love Part 2)" - (Skytown)
6 - 6 - Lisa Addeo - "Listen To This" - (Little Black Dress)
7 - 14 - Najee - "Center Of The Heart" - (Shanachie Entertainment)
8 - 5 - Dave Koz & Friends - "Summer Horns II: From A to Z" - (Concord)
9 - 13 - Adam Hawley - "Double Vision" - (Kalimba)
10 - 9 - Brian Culbertson - "Winter Stories" - (BCM)
11 - 12 - Nick Colionne - "Just Being Me" - (Trippin N' Rhythm)
12 - 11 - Blake Aaron - "Color And Passion" - (Innervision)
13 - 15 - FOUR80EAST - "Four On The Floor" - (Boomtang)
14 - 10 - Cindy Bradley - "I'm All Ears" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
15 - 19 - Julian Vaughn - "Supreme" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
16 - 24 - Brian Bromberg - "Thicker Than Water" - (Mack Avenue Records)
17 - 20 - Jeff Ryan - "Embrace" - (Woodward Avenue)
18 - 18 - Brendan Rothwell - "Sentiment" - (Independent)
19 - 7 - Rick Braun - "Crossroads" - (Shanachie Entertainment)
20 - 21 - Joyce Cooling - "Living Out Loud" - (Funky Kitchen)
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Guitarist Lawson Rollins returns with the familiar yet noticeably different “True North” #jazz
His tenth album drops January 17 preceded by the single, “Bluewave Bossanova.”
Lawson Rollins’ recordings have always possessed a grand sense of travel, exoticism and adventure, narrated by the global guitarist’s prodigious and alacritous classical fingerstyle play that Guitar Player magazine recently spotlighted by selecting Rollins as one of the “50 Transcendent Acoustic Guitarists” of all-time. After embarking upon a creative departure on a few recent projects, the chart-topping composer-producer-musician, best known for crafting lush amalgams of contemporary jazz, world music, Latin and New Age over the past twenty years, charts a more familiar course on his tenth solo album, “True North,” dropping January 17, 2020 on Infinita Records. Yet there is a marked difference in his approach.
The prolific Rollins spent the last couple of years exploring vast horizons. Last year, he assembled “Airwaves: The Greatest Hits,” which includes the Billboard top 10 hit “World of Wonder” featuring 3rd Force and earlier this year, he released the experimental “Dark Matter: Music for Film.” Rollins also scored his first feature film, “Stay Out Stay Alive,” a multiple award-winning movie opening November 26 for which he served as executive producer of the film festival favorite. These diverse projects broadened the scope of his artistic muse, now budding in entirely new and different dimensions. Culling elements from each one, Rollins picked up his trusty acoustic nylon string guitar and utilized a fresh approach to write and produce “True North,” the first album that he produced entirely on his own. The wide array of projects also impacts the way he plays guitar, which exhibits a keener focus, discipline and restraint.
“The past couple of years have really expanded my musical horizons through my work on film music and also the single, ‘And If You Will Come With Me’ by Israeli superstar singer Idan Raichel. Those experiences forced me to hone down my quite often exuberant nylon string guitar style to suit the needs of the particular projects and also to delve more seriously into other instruments like the electric guitar, synthesizers and electronic percussion programming. With ‘True North,’ I was able to bring that new knowledge and perspective back home, in a sense, to the type of nylon string guitar-centered music that has been my true calling as an artist over the past 20 years,” said the San Francisco-based Rollins who hails from Durham, North Carolina.
“This is the first album I solely produced and also recorded all my guitars myself. I was able to take my time to capture performances that felt natural and unhurried to me, and I'm also really pleased with the warmth and purity of the acoustic guitar tone."
Change is also evident on the album cover and in the accompanying booklet, which are bright with pastoral colors and sunlight in photos taken on the Outer Banks, North Carolina, where Rollins spends a lot of time each year. Before the holidays next month, radio outlets will get to experience the first single from “Truth North” when “Bluewave Bossanova,” a sultry dance of textured world beat rhythms and an impassioned surge of guitar arpeggios, scales and harmonies, goes for playlist adds. The radio edit includes the addition of a sensitive soprano sax played by Mary Fettig.
Rollins thrives on the collection, stretching out by playing nylon string guitar, slide guitar and electric guitar along with keyboards and drum programming. He’s accompanied by drummer and percussionist Dave Bryant, bassist Dan Feiszli, violinist Mads Tolling and Stephen Duros who plays additional keyboards and electric guitar on “With the Wind,” an eclectic and imaginative album highlight destined to blow to the top of the radio charts.
“Many of the tracks, such as the title track as well as ‘With the Wind’ and ‘Dead Ahead,’ are unlike anything I've ever done, with new textures augmenting the familiar sound of my main instrument, the acoustic nylon string guitar. There's a more intense focus on melodic expression on this album and less on long improvisational flights of fancy. It's all about staying firmly on course - true north, as it were - and doing what serves the songs best."
Rollins’ unique brand defies simple categorization and has proven crossover appeal. He has placed albums in the top ten of Billboard’s World Music chart and his singles have conquered the contemporary jazz charts as well as garnered an abundance of airplay from world music and New Age outlets. Videos showcasing his lightning speed, extraordinary dexterity and mesmerizing guitar technique have received over 10 million YouTube views. After debuting in 2000 as a member of Young & Rollins, a duo that dropped four albums, Rollins premiered as a solo artist in 2008 with “Infinita.” His albums serve collaborations with an assorted mix of GRAMMY® winners and nominees that spans Tolling, guitar eccentric Buckethead, Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Charlie Bisharat.
Rollins’ “True North” album contains the following songs:
“True North”
“With the Wind”
“Perpetual Motion”
“Bluewave Bossanova”
“South Beach”
“Full Sail”
“Dead Ahead”
“Yearning to Know”
“Year Abroad”
“Nostalgia”
“In the Shadows”
“The Winding Road”