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My favorite jazz tune growing up in Sumter, SC was organist Jimmy Smith’s High Heel Sneakers, which also tied with his Got My Mojo Working. I was turned on to Jimmy Smith after my father returned from his second trip to Viet Nam with a seven-inch reel-to-reel player. Jimmy Smith was one of the recorded…
Destin Smooth Jazz Piks Apr 13
With school, work and launching a new business I pushed it hard this past week, because if I sleep I’m two-steps behind. I started this week’s #SmoothJazzPiks 5 days ago and took then the opportunity to relax a bit and complete classwork. After finishing an assignment, I decided it was music time. I love hearing…
Gulf Coast Bass Player Creates Perfect Storm
I had the pleasure of meeting Chris Snowden about 4 years ago at Seabreeze Jazz Festival. My best bud, Jay Smooth introduced me to him and had nothing but great things to say about him. Over the past 6 months I have been nothing but impressed by the somewhat quiet demeanor and extraordinary skills of…
A Smooth Jazz Lifestyle – Ten Years in the Making
In 2009 my wife and I attended our first jazz festival. Our biggest dilemma prior to deciding to go, could we stomach 3 days of jazz? I had a history of peaks and valleys in my jazz listening habits and collected and listened to jazz since high school. At one point, I was even trying…
Destin Smooth Jazz Piks Mar 16
What a week!! We traveled to Galveston, Tx this past weekend for the Moody Gardens Wine and Jazz Festival and had a great time.Iw as introduced to the expertise of Andre Cavor on the sax with great performances by Norman Brown, Julian Vaughn, Gerald Albright and others. All and all, we had a great weekend…
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr On The Importance Of Jazz
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr On The Importance Of Jazz On the Importance of Jazz Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Opening Address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival: God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of…
