SHAUN MARTIN Focus KEY SELLING POINTS • Multi Grammy Award winner • Works with Kirk Franklin, Snarky Puppy, and more • His debut 7 Summers is in steady demand on streaming services, and sold well on CD and download to loyal fans DESCRIPTION ARTIST: Shaun Martin Shaun Martin has been playing, creating, and collaborating for most of TITLE: Focus his life, yet his contributions go much further than just playing. When CATALOG: CD-RAD420 you move through the projects that Shaun has been a part of you can LABEL: Ropeadope feel his style and influence; you can sense his presence throughout the GENRE: Jazz BARCODE: 8248330202530 compositions. Shaun’s willingness and ability to be a subtle part of each FORMAT: CD band has allowed him to be part of the very foundation. HOME MARKET: Dallas, Texas RELEASE: 8/3/2018 After the acclaimed release of Shaun Martin’s debut - 7 Summers - LIST PRICE: $13.98 / AM Martin returns to the studio for a simpler project - A Jazz Trio recording entitled Focus, with frequent collaborators AJ Brown and Jamil Byron, TRACKLISTING (Click Tracks In Blue To Preview Audio) with special guests Keith Taylor and Robert ’Sput’ Searight. 1. Recordame ‘I wanted to sit down and fall back in love with the piano - to dance with 2. Ms. Genell the one that brought you.’ - Shaun Martin 3. Body And Soul 4. Soundcheck and Whatnots The trio format lends plenty of inspiration for Shaun, he counts Bill 5. Festina Lente Evans, Oscar Peterson, Keith Jarrett, and Gary Peacock as influences 6. Focus and standards for the trio vibe, with the magnetic interplay between the 7. Triad instruments as the foundation. Yet as always, Shaun Martin makes the trio his own, comfortably expressing himself as though he is in fact dancing with the one that brought him. A couple of standards from Joe Henderson and Billie Holiday set the frame, with five original compositions that bring the story into Focus, and the interplay between these lifelong friends is indeed magnetic and seemingly effortless. PROUDLY DISTRIBUTED BY FAT BEATS DISTRIBUTION | 8930 ETON AVE. CANOGA PARK, CA 91304 | DISTRIBUTION.FATBEATS.COM.