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S p r i n g 2 0 0 8 Ae n-t Te r Rt a i An m Ie nNt WELCOME TO THE A-TRAIN NEWSLETTER! The A-Train newsletter is back for 2008. With it comes several new releases, positive reviews and exciting live Top News performances. Enjoy! •6 A-Train artists Happy New Year to all! We hope you found your holidays fulfill- nominated for GRAMMYS ing. Now that our tummies have settled down from all the festive •A-Train gets digital rights feasting, we can venture into 2008, a nice round number sure to to ARTizen music bring with it a nice phat catalog of musical tastes and adventures. •A-Train acquires digital As zesty as “Oh Seven” may have been, this year we are filling up rights for Ziriguiboom on the robust, including new acquisitions from both the •Shantel hits #1 on World Ziriguiboom/Crammed Discs and ARTizen labels, as well as stack- Music European Charts ing chips for those oh-so-tasty Grammy Awards, celebrated by •New releases from nominations from six A-Train supported artists! And if that isn’t ARTizen artists and Henry enough to ring in the New Year, we have a treasure trough (trove?? – Kaiser no trough i.e. play on food theme) of new releases to dish out on the •New tour dates for side. So come fill yer plate with all we’re spreadin’ around. Don’t Wadada Leo Smith, Will Bernard, and Arianna worry, we won’t tell if you take seconds. Solare - The A-Train Staff A - T r a i n E n t e r t a i n m e n t • P . O . B o x 2 9 2 4 2 • O a k l a n d , C A 9 4 6 0 4 • 5 1 0 . 8 9 3 . 4 7 0 5 S p r i n g 2 0 0 8 NEWS & REVIEWS It’s GRAMMY Time! accessible with releases from Rick Braun, critical acclaim. “The variation on this Richard Elliot, Jason Miles, Chris record is great, soft pieces and fierce Congrats to all the Grammy nominees Standring, Jackiem Joyner and more. 11 moments alternate, with "And Nothing for a year of outstanding accomplishment! new titles to whet the appetite. Visit the But" offering probably one of the most Though they didn’t all win, A-Train is proud to support the following artists New Release section and find something to beautiful free sax moments of the year, munch on… starting slowly but then gaining whose albums are readily available for momentum ending again in a great finale. download: www.artizenmusic.com Yet it's not all power play or sweet • Konono Nº1 Live At Couleur Café emotions, there are some joyous moments, (Crammed Discs/Rykodisc - Best Say This Three Times Fast… moments of great interaction, just for the Traditional World Music Album) Ziriguiboom joy of making music together, and the two • Peter Kater Faces Of The Sun (Silver A-Train is proud to announce the drums really do some great things together, Wave Records - Best New Age Album) digital acquisition of Crammed Discs rolling and thundering at times, subtle and • Black Lodge Watch This Dancer! Ziriguiboom label, the imprint launched in sensitive at others. An album with a high (Canyon Records – Best native American 1998 by Crammed Discs in collaboration Music Album) level of "woohaa", bringing everything with A&R/Producer Béco Dranoff. great music should offer: true emotions, • R. Carlos Nakai, Cliff Sarde, Ziriguiboom's aim has always been to find adventure, variation, interplay, tension, William Eaton & Randy Wood and present original artists and as-yet- Reconnections (Canyon Records - Best surprise and entertainment. “From the unexposed aspects of modern Brazilian ‘Out Trios’ series at Atavistic, this is native American Music Album) music by producing and releasing keystone definitely the best one.” -Free Jazz • Johnny Whitehorse Totemic Flute Chants albums. Today, Ziriguiboom is synonymous (Silver Wave Records - Best native www.artizenmusic.com with the best in modern sounds from Brazil American Music Album) (WINNER) and boasts releases from Bebel Gilberto, www.crammed.be Suba, Auco 103, DJ Dolores, and more. www.silverwave.com Let’s Go Disko! As a fantastic intro to this dynamic label A- www.store.canyonrecords.com Another Crammed Discs success! The Train happily offers Bossacucanova’s pioneer of the Balkan club scene, Classics Revisited. Straight from Ipanema, Congratulations to another A-Trainer, SHANTEL, has hit number 1 in the World Rio de Janeiro, comes an updated album of Will Bernard, who picked up a Grammy Music European Charts for his latest solo smooth soulful themes recorded by new nomination for Best Contemporary Jazz album Disko Partizani! This is the sound and classic Bossa Nova stars, featuring Album with his latest release for Palmetto of new Europe, centered in the middle of artists from the original Bossa invasion of Records, Party Hats. Be sure to check out the old continent, but incorporating the early 60's and reconstructed by three our selection of other WB classics vibrant influences from the emerging young Carioca DJ/Producers. A must including, Directions To My House and frontier that stretches all the way to have for lovers of the swaying sounds from Motherbug, both currently available for Mitteleuropa, the South East, Greece, the South! your listening pleasure, as well as his tour Turkey and beyond. His video is in www.crammed.be dates hitting the US! rotation on MTV in several countries and www.willbernard.com can be seen, along with a candid interview www.palmetto-records.net Up From Under…An All and a few audio bytes, on the crammed website. Around Winner www.crammed.be ARTizen Has Arrived We are very excited to announce the ARTizen is now officially in cahoots latest addition to the A-Train line-up, the with A-Train! One of smooth jazz’s most latest album from Larry Ochs, Up From Under, released by Atavistic in 2007 to successful independent labels now digitally A - T r a i n E n t e r t a i n m e n t • P . O . B o x 2 9 2 4 2 • O a k l a n d , C A 9 4 6 0 4 • 5 1 0 . 8 9 3 . 4 7 0 5 S p r i n g 2 0 0 8 NEW RELEASES Jackiem Joyner - Babysoul Entertainment, the Today Show and was one of People Magazine's Top Jackiem's insistent and seemingly Fifty bachelors. limitless invention on the thumpin’, finger snapping title track is all about Lao Tizer - Diversify the urgency of getting out there and Lao Tizer has had a nearly life-long showing everyone what he’s got. affair with the charms of the piano Thinking back on dealing with starting at age five and beginning difficult characters on the business formal education at age nine. He side of things along the way, recorded three solo keyboard/piano "Elevation" finds Jackiem in a titles while still in his teens and retrospective place ruminating upon his life so far in the music moved to Los Angeles to pursue a business while the tune's ebullient character suggests an inner broader career and discover a mentor resolution and dedication to move only onward and upward. The in famed guitarist Chieli Minucci of dreamy, ambient closer “Innocence” strips away the obstacles and the internationally acclaimed group, Special EFX. Lao's first band gives him a fresh, optimistic mindset towards the future. recording, Golden Soul was met by universal acclaim and acceptance. A single from that CD, "Her Poetry" charted at Radio & Record's Jason Miles - To Grover, With Smooth Jazz chart and Billboard's Top 50 Contemporary Jazz chart in Love addition to garnering a nomination for “Best New Artist” at the The Grammy-nominated King of the National Smooth Jazz Awards. His sensitivity tempered with an innate Homage, Jason Miles assembles an feel for composition and marvelous technique will win him a broader, all-star cast of R&B and jazz motivated fan base with Diversify. superstars on a heartfelt tribute to innovator, melodicist, musician - Peter White Christmas with Grover Washington. This is not your Mindi Abair and Rick Braun ordinary tribute CD filled with mere For the fifth year in a row, A Peter exercises in nostalgia, but one filled with cutting-edge, contemporary White Christmas Tour has visited performances by flutist Herbie Mann, vocalist Regina Belle, sax man locations throughout the country as Steve Cole and guitarist Russ Freeman, among others. Each track one of the most popular holiday exhibits high standards of musicianship from start to finish, from the tours in smooth jazz. This year, guitar lead of Russ Freeman on "East River Drive" to the soulful sax there's a new CD to go along with wailings, this CD dusts off, shakes down, and hands you some searing the show. “It's taken from the live soul, scorching riffs, and serious funk. show and…recorded live in studio exactly the way we play the arrangements live,” said White. “We didn't make any changes…It's Jimmy Sommers - Sunset pretty raw, and that's what we wanted to capture.” "The arrangements Collective for each song evolved night after night on tour,” Abair notes, “I think Sunset Collective features that's what makes this CD so interesting and special. It's a mix of all performances by such diverse and three of us adding to the other's music and leaving our mark on some intriguing artists as Vikter Duplaix, great Christmas classics.” ”I can see the joy on the faces of our fans,” Macy Gray, Paul Oakenfold, Rahsaan adds Braun, “It's as if together we're bringing the Christmas spirit to Patterson, Paul Brown and Brian life.” All the joy must be striking the right note, as A Peter White Culbertson as well as a bonus remix Christmas is now celebrating its fifth year.