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Jackiem Joyner - Baby Soul (CD)
Jackiem Joyner; Contributions by Jackiem Joyner; Produced by Jackiem Joyner; Performed by Joyner,Jackiem
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R409
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With his ARTizen Music Group debut Babysoul, 26-year-old Jackiem
Joyner is the latest saxophonist in contemporary jazz history to
musically chronicle the experience of emerging from the ranks of
extraordinarily busy sideman to center stage on his first
recording. An instantly engaging, soulful release, Babysoul will
astound listeners with its musicality and accessibility. After
several years of playing with keyboard greats Marcus Johnson and
Bobby Lyle and saxophonist Jaared, co-headlining a 30 city tour in
2004 with Ronnie Laws and jazz and soul singers Angela Bofill and
Jean Carne, and opening gigs for everyone from India Arie to Boney
James, Spyro Gyra and George Benson, Joyner took a full year off to
focus on writing and recording an album that marks his status as “a
baby coming into the world, a new soul emerging into the music
business.” Babysoul is more than just a title- it is a true
description of his professional re-birthing. Jackiem's insistent
and seemingly limitless invention on the thumpin’, finger snapping
title track is all about the urgency of getting out there and
showing everyone what he’s got. Thinking back on dealing with
difficult characters on the business side of things along the way,
"Elevation" finds Jackiem in a retrospective place ruminating upon
his life so far in the music business while the tune's ebullient
character suggests an inner resolution and dedication to move only
onward and upward. The dreamy, ambient closer “Innocence” strips
away the obstacles and gives him a fresh, optimistic mindset
towards the future. Considering that this past New Year’s Eve, he
held his own jamming onstage during the Jazz Spectacular at the
Hyatt Regency in La Jolla, California with genre greats Gerald
Albright, Richard Elliot, Jeff Golub and Peter White—whose graceful
acoustic guitar graces Babysoul’s sensual, soprano driven first
single “Stay With Me Tonight”—it’s clearly a gift that comes
naturally to Joyner. “For this record, I’m really trying to
communicate the soulful sound I have cultivated as much as
possible,” he says, “delivering the message that I’m not only an
emotionally strong player, but also technically on par. I have the
best of both worlds on Babysoul, with a lot of dance groove
elements up front and then the second half of the disc that slows
down into a slightly more romantic mindset. Even during the time
that I was growing as a sideman, it felt right for me to step up
front and take solos.
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