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Congratulations to Wadada Leo Smith for being among the eight jazz artists to receive the fifth annual Doris Duke Artist Awards!

According to a press release from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, artists are “appointed in recognition of their creative vitality and ongoing contributions to the fields of dance, jazz and theater.” Awardees will each receive $275,000 “in flexible, multi-year funding as well as financial and legal counseling, professional development activities and peer-to-peer learning opportunities provided by Creative Capital, DDCF’s primary partner in the awards,”.

Read more about the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation here!

Please visit the Willie Royal Caregiver Fund on GoFundMe.com to help the beautiful and talented Willie Royal raise the funds he needs to receive the proper care; he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s over a year ago.

Currently at $4200 of $10K, your gift will certainly touch his life just as his music over the years has touched yours. Please continue to support and share the Willie Royal Caregiver Fund with those whose lives his music has touched as well!

Contemporary Jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer Peter Horvath was in for some amazing news worthy of celebrating this past weekend. Released just last Friday January 29, 2015, he already landed #1 on Amazon’s Jazz Fusion sales for his new album “Absolute Reality“! Congratulations and cheers to a successful opening weekend!

To get in on the buzz, check out Peter Horvath’s “Absolute Reality” here http://amzn.to/1PavESB.

Congrats to our A Train Artists whose hits made it in the the Smooth Jazz Top 20 Songs of  2015! Thanks for the announcement Allen Kepler!

#1 Gregg Karukas ” Rio Drive”

#2 Rick Braun “Silk”

#3 Gerald Albright “Because of You”

#8 Jeff Golub “Swagster”

#9 Richard Elliot “Lip Service”

#12 Jeff Golub “Open Up”