The great news continues this week
Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White's newly relaunched Kalimba Music
label (www.kalimba-music.com), with their new artist, composer/keyboardist Greg
Manning, making a powerful debut on smooth jazz radio while EWF's single
"Never" -- the lead single from the re-mastered collector's edition
of the hit album The Promise -- makes its debut on the New & Active portion
of the Billboard Smooth Jazz chart.
Manning's
"Cruisin' Down The Road," featuring chart-topping saxophonist Vincent
Ingala, is the #1 Most Added track on the Billboard Smooth Jazz chart, the
SmoothJazz.com chart recap and Spincreased list and the Radio Wave Internet
Airplay chart.
On the
Billboard chart, Manning's song tops a list that includes fellow emerging
artists like Jeanette Harris and Bennett B. as well as genre superstar Brian
Culbertson. The Smoothjazz.com chart includes another veteran star, saxophonist
Richard Elliot. In addition to numerous terrestrial and internet stations
throughout the U.S., the track is receiving spins on Sirius XM Satellite
Radio's "Watercolors" channel.
"Cruisin'
Down the Road" joins Manning's previous hit singles "Dance With
You" -- which reached #1 on the taste-making chart, The Smooth Jazz Top 20
with Allen Kepler -- and "Groove Me" (featuring saxman Elan Trotman)
on his new 11-track collection Dance With You, which will be released by
Kalimba Music on July 8.
This
week, EWF's "Never" -- which was released to smooth jazz radio May 19
-- also remains in the Top 50 of the Smoothjazz.com chart and the Top 25 on the
Smoothindiestar.com chart.
White,
who originally established Kalimba Music in 2003 as a vehicle to promote Earth,
Wind & Fire as well as up and coming performers, decided to re-launch based
on his passion and love for music and worthy artists.
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