Showing posts with label Ray Charles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ray Charles. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Why Take 5? When You Can Take 6?


"When Angels Cry" Available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play and Spotify

"Believe" on March 25, 2016

You'd better "Believe" Take 6 is back!


“When Angels Cry,” the first single from multi-award winning jazz, pop and R&B group TAKE 6’s highly-anticipated album “Believe,” is now available for purchase on iTunes, Google Play and Amazon and streaming on Spotify. The new album will be available worldwide on March 25, 2016 via SoNo Recording Group. Known for working with some of the biggest and most iconic names in music, including Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Celine Dion, Lionel Richie, Justin Timberlake, Al Jarreau, Don Henley and James Taylor, to name a few, Take 6 will delight music lovers with “Believe” a contemporary record filled with exciting collaborations and new material with every hallmark of the classic TAKE 6 sound.

Motown Legend Stevie Wonder recently met up with the guys in Nashville to contribute his exquisite harmonica playing to the song “You Know You Are In Love.”

“When Angels Cry”
iTunes – https://itun.es/us/96Rr-
Google Play – https://goo.gl/7R6Utl
Amazon – http://amzn.to/1Migrgd
Stream on Spotify – http://spoti.fi/1NueQJU
Back In Action
Take 6
TAKE 6 (Claude McKnight, Mark Kibble, Joel Kibble, Dave Thomas, Alvin Chea and Khristian Dentley), has been heralded by none other than Quincy Jones as the "baddest vocal cats on the planet!” Their uniquely cutting-edge style is comprised of six virtuosic voices united in crystal clear harmony, against a backdrop of syncopated rhythms, innovative arrangements, and funky grooves. All of this bubbles into an intoxicating brew of gospel, jazz, R&B, and pop. TAKE 6 are quintessential a cappella.

The group, considered torchbearers for an entire reemergence of a cappella as a musical movement, has been performing together since their days at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama in 1980. Their debut album scored two 1988 Grammy Awards and landed in the Top Ten Billboard Contemporary Jazz and Contemporary Christian Charts.

Twenty seven years later, the most talked-about vocal group of all time, TAKE 6 is in greater demand than ever, selling out shows all over the world. They have performed on Saturday Night Live, the Oscars, the Grammys, had the honor of performing for four sitting U.S. Presidents, and appeared at the Democratic National Convention. The group, which has inspired and been a founding influence to a generation of recording artists including Boyz II Men and *NSYNC, has collaborated with a who’s who of artists – including Stevie Wonder, Gordon Goodwin, Don Henley, Whitney Houston, Al Jarreau, Quincy Jones, k.d. lang, Queen Latifah, Brian McKnight, Luis Miguel, Marcus Miller, Joe Sample, Ben Tankard and Cece Winans.

TAKE 6 Tour Dates:
Dec 11 Lincoln, NE - Lied Center for Performing Arts
Dec 12 University Park, IL - Governors State University
Dec 13 Houston, TX - The Fountain of Praise
Jan 02 Aspen, CO - Downstairs @ The Little Nell
Jan 03 Aspen, CO - Downstairs @ The Little Nell
Feb 12 Flagstaff, AZ - Northern Arizona University
Feb 14 Chandler, AZ - Chandler Center for the Arts
Feb 18 Santa Rosa, CA - The Summit: The Manhattan Transfer Meets Take 6
Feb 20 Bellingham, WA - Mount Baker Theatre
Mar 17 Urbana, IL - Krannert Center’s Colwell Playhouse
Apr 01 Reading, PA - Berks Jazz Festival (The Summit Show)
Apr 06 Red Bank, NJ - Count Basie Theater (The Summit Show)
Apr 15 Oceanside, CA - Miracosta College - Oceanside Jazz Festival
May 14 Malibu, CA - Smothers Theater - Pepperdine University

 

Monday, July 22, 2013

Lee DeWyze In Da House !

Lee DeWyze is like the Energizer Bunny, he keeps on movin'........

Premiering on Yahoo! is a live acoustic in-studio video of the song“Fight” – the lead track from Lee DeWyze’s upcoming album FRAMES.  Filmed at the historic Boulevard Recording Studios in Hollywood, CA (which has hosted such notable artists as Pink Floyd, Ray Charles and Steely Dan to name a few), fans can download an MP3 of the song at http://leedewyzeofficial.com/free-mp3-download-.


Lee is currently on a solo tour through July 28th in Evanston, IL with more dates to be added soon. These dates are in support of his album FRAMES which will be released August 20th on Vanguard Records. Tour dates listed below For more information visit: www.leedewyze.com

FRAMES marks Lee DeWyze’s Vanguard label debut and spotlights his diversity as a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. DeWyze played guitar, piano, mandolin, banjo and drums during the recording sessions, during which he collaborated with renowned producer/songwriters Toby Gad, Drew Pearson, Matthew Wilder and Phil Allen, as well as mixer extraordinaire Jim Scott. Lee recently premiered the first single, “Silver Lining” when he made a triumphant return to the American Idol stage. 
                                                         "Silver Lining" on American Idol
                                           


Lee DeWyze on tour:

2013-07-16           Annapolis, MD – Ram’s Head On Stage
2013-07-17           Charlotte, NC – The Evening Muse
2013-07-24           Milwaukee, WI – Shank Hall
2013-07-25           Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
2013-07-26           Osceola, IA – Lakeside Casino
2013-07-28           Evanston, IL – Space