Jumaane Smith

Best known to audiences throughout the world as the lead trumpeter for international superstar Michael Buble for the past decade, multi-faceted singer, entertainer and musician Jumaane Smith is set to make his highly anticipated, critically acclaimed independent standards-filled debut album I Only Have Eyes For You. Smith, whose collaborations range from pop idols to jazz legends, including Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Aretha Franklin, Alicia Keys, The Jonas Brothers, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Barbara Streisand, Natalie Cole, Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Santana, Chris Botti and others. "I strived to create an intimate album which focused on the sentiment of love and romance while being perfect for any occasion and best to be enjoyed with a glass of wine and someone you care about" Executive produced by Smith and produced by Dave Pierce, I Only Have Eyes For You is a lush celebration of the Great American Songbook featuring interpretations of classics full of personal emotion

Creole Orchestra Featuring Ren�� Marie

By Etienne Charles

Label: Culture Shock Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Old School; Poison; Think Twice; I Wanna Be Evil; Holy City; Ten to One Is Murder; Centerpiece; Douens; A Shade of Jade; Colorado River Song; Stompin' at the Savoy; Take My Breath Wway; Night Train.

D. D. Jackson, Asher Gamedze & Caroline Davis

by Maurice Hogue
October 7, 2024

A big “welcome back" to pianist D.D. Jackson who's not been heard much on recordings for the last several years. He returned to his native Canada to make Poetry Project, inspired by a commission received during the pandemic to compose music for a poem written by former poet laureate George Elliott Clarke. That led to Clarke ...

Etienne Charles: Creole Orchestra Featuring Ren�� Marie

by Chris May
June 12, 2024

Trinidad-born Etienne Charles has been fortunate in his associates during his development as a jazz musician. One of the first friends he made on arrival in the U.S.A. in the early 2000s to study at Florida State University was faculty member Marcus Roberts. Among much else, the pianist taught Charles the importance of keeping in touch ...

Charlotte Jazz Festival 2019

by Perry Tannenbaum
May 13, 2019

Patina Miller, The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, The Future of Jazz Orchestra, Maria Muldaur, Carlos Henriquez, Paul Nedzela, and Donna Hopkins Charlotte Jazz Festival Charlotte, NC May 1-4, 2019 Presented by the Leon Levine Foundation and staged by Blumenthal Performing Arts, the Charlotte Jazz Festival is continuing to grow incrementally ...

I Only Have Eyes For You

By Jumaane Smith

Label: Jumaane Smith
Released: 2014

Jazz-Infused Film 'Handsome Harry' Starring Jamey Sheridan to be Released by Paladin Films on April 16

March 5, 2010

Handsome Harry is the latest film by Bette Gordon, whose 1983 feature Variety remains a signal work of the early American “indie" movement. Heading an impressive ensemble cast, Jamey Sheridan (The Ice Storm, Syriana) portrays the title role -- a divorced man, alienated from his grown son, whose life is defined by a number of casual ...