Jazz saxophonist Gerald Albright can be performing reside at Blues Alley September 21 by way of September 24, 2023. Buy tickets right here.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Albright was already an completed saxophonist by the point he enrolled on the College of Redlands, however he switched to bass after he noticed Louis Johnson in live performance. A number of months after graduating from school, he joined jazz pianist/R&B singer Patrice Rushen, who was within the technique of forming her personal band. Later, when the bassist left in the course of a tour, Albright changed him and completed the tour on bass guitar. Taking part in each sax and bass, he grew to become the consummate session and touring musician within the 80s, working with everybody from Anita Baker, Ray Parker, Jr., Atlantic Starr, The Temptations and Maurice White to Les McCann, Teena Marie, the Winans and Whitney Houston.
He launched his solo profession within the infancy of what grew to become the graceful jazz format, with Simply Between Us in 1987 and has been a core a part of the style with chart-topping albums, numerous radio hits and as a member of many all star excursions, together with Guitars & Saxes and Groovin’ For Grover. Within the late 90s, he fronted a giant band for and toured with pop star Phil Collins and did a twin recording with vocal nice Will Downing referred to as Pleasures of the Night time. Between his final two Grammy-nominated solo albums Pushing The Envelope (2010) and Slam Dunk (2014), he loved hit collaborations with two large hits – 24/7 with guitarist Norman Brown and Summer season Horns by Dave Koz and Associates (together with Mindi Abair and Richard Elliot), which had been additionally Grammy-nominated for Finest Pop Instrumental Albums. He toured with Brown and Summer season Horns, and most not too long ago has been on the highway with South Africa gospel/jazz singer and guitarist Jonathan Butler. Albright’s different albums whose titles completely mirror their movement embrace Clean (1994), Groovology (2002), Kickin’ It Up (2004) and Sax for Stax (2008).
As a result of Albright’s musical muse has taken him to so many desirable locales alongside the modern R&B/city jazz spectrum, he’s joyfully defied straightforward categorizations.
“High to backside,” Albright says, “Whether or not in live performance, listening to my music over the radio or CD participant, I at all times need my listeners to be taken on a musical journey with completely different textures, rhythms, chord progressions and moods. I need individuals to know the place I’ve been and the place I’m going, and to allow them to hear that I’m in a extremely good place in my life.”
