Jay Graydon's latest album "Past to Present - the 70s" is now released and available at CD BABY www.cdbaby.com/cd/jaygraydon06 directly or via the links at www.jaygraydon.com
"Past to Present - the 70s" is the 8th album on Jay Graydon's own record label Sonic Thrust Records. From the Garden Rake Studios tape vault... super sounds of the 70s... an album as close to AIRPLAY as it will ever get... This album is featuring Jay Graydon on vocals, guitars, bass and some synth stuff; great singers such as Bill Champlin, Marc Jordan, Tata Vega, Lisa DalBello, Ed Whiting and more.
On all tracks other musicians include such top names as David Foster, Jeff Porcaro, Mike Baird, David Hungate, Mike Porcaro, Greg Mathieson, to name a few. The album has 20 tracks and this stuff has never been released before. Apart from the main songs, there are a few bonus tracks - fun stuff like TV themes, a jingle, and also 2 instrumental tracks.
Jay says about his new album...
"If you are interested in hearing great singers, musicians, and songwriters that had surfaced as "top notch" in the 70s during the beginning of their professional careers, you will enjoy the CD."
JAY GRAYDON is a twice Grammy awarded (Best R&B songs) and 12 times Grammy nominated (among the top 5 finalists), Los Angeles top songwriter, recording artist, guitarist, producer, arranger, engineer, and more. More info at www.jaygraydon.com
Read about the recording sessions with David Foster, Bill Champlin, Jeff and Mike Porcaro, David Hungate, Marc Jordan and all of the other top names and Jay's hard work with getting the old master tapes up to date in his own extended liner notes www.jaygraydon.com/pasttopresent.htm
These recording sessions, original stuff from the 70s, are previously never released. Listen to a few sound bites from the album at CD BABY, featuring Jay singing on two of the songs (IF THERE'S A WAY and YOU CAN COUNT ON ME) and Bill Champlin singing on one - an alternate version of WHAT GOOD IS LOVE. Bill also sings another never before released song - IT'S RIGHT TO BE IN LOVE - and like we told you earlier the album features the session aces from the 70s era and from any era - just check out the list of the participating musicians and vocalists...
Musicians and Vocalists:
GUITARS: Jay Graydon
KEYBOARDS: Jay Graydon, David Foster, Greg Mathieson
DRUMS: Jeff Porcaro, Willy Ornelas, Mike Baird, Ralph Humphrey
BASS: Jay Graydon, Dave McDaniel, David Hungate, Mike Porcaro, (most likely David Shields)
VOCALISTS: Jay Graydon, Bill Champlin, Ed Whiting, Marc Jordan, Tata Vega, Lisa DalBello, Nettie Gloud, Carmen Twillie
SONGWRITERS: Jay Graydon, David Foster, Harry Garfield, Bill Champlin, Marc Jordan, B. J. Cook Foster
Contact Name: Kerstin
Contact Email: sonicthrustrecords@yahoo.com
A few reviews:
Fantastic !
Reviewer: Francesco Chelini
What can I say? A genius decided to give the world some pearls! We are very happy!Listen to the previously unreleased tracks and simply thank the artist for the gift.I do.
classic sound
Reviewer: michael james moore
Back in the 70s Jay was playing on everyones records.I grew up in the valley and he was a legend.This cd has great production and some great songs that could be hits.
Simply the best songwriter and guitarplayer ever.....
Reviewer: Lars Wærness
This album contents some of the greatest songs ever written. I specialy am a big fan of the arrangements and the beautiful instrumentations. Very nice that some of the songs are without vocals so that you really can enjoy the music. I just miss "The Rakes" out of this world guitar solos.
Reviewer: Hiroaki
Great! This album is so great! I'm listening to the great sound like 70's westcoast aor everyday.I wanna listen to the other Jay's sound from 70 to 80 or to 90.This album is my most favorite one. From Japan! Thanks
a great surprise
Reviewer: Bengt Isaksson
Jay Graydon - Past to Present - The 70s. It was a great surprise that Jay Graydon should release a record with old material, and now it's here and it sounds as the 70s. With some material never released before this production is great, the record includes a few bonus tracks - fun stuff like TV themes, a jingle, and also 2 instrumental tracks. If you are a Graydon fan, you must have this in your collection.
Christmas came early this year!
Reviewer: Olov Andersson
Absolutely fantastic CD. 8 totally new songs plus Airplay demos, a Bill Champlin track and lots of short musical incidents like jingles and such. Top class music from start to finish. Old fans will love it! I hope he releases all his old songs eventually. Christmas came early this year!
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