Continuing
to harness the momentum of two Billboard top 5 and two top 10 singles from last
year’s “Soul Stories” album, guitarist Blake Aaron will preview his “Color and
Passion” album by issuing the first single, “Summer Ride,” which goes for radio
playlist adds on May 16. Four days prior, he will perform the vibrant electric
guitar-driven vehicle during a live show recorded in Sirius XM’s Washington, DC
studios that will air on the national satellite radio broadcaster at a date
soon to be announced.
Like the varied songbook that make “Soul
Stories” a captivating listen, “Color and Passion,” Aaron’s sixth album
scheduled for September release on Innervision Records, will offer an assorted
sound palate swirling imaginative hues of funk, R&B, soul, jazz, blues and
Latin music. Aaron wrote “Summer Ride” and expects to pen most of the material
for the new collection.
“’Color and
Passion’ is my funkiest and most emotional project to date,” Aaron described.
“It explores every end of the spectrum of ‘color and passion’ in music - from
the red fire of Latin music, to the deep purple grooves of American jazz, funk,
R&B and soul to the cool blues of the most sensitive, emotional and
intimate ballads. I can’t wait to share it with you this fall!”
Dialing in
the show before the trek back east, Aaron will play a sold-out concert at
Southern California’s contemporary jazz hot spot Spaghettini near Los Angeles
on Saturday night (May 7). The evening before the Sirius XM concert, he’ll play
a set in Hampton, Virginia on May 11 at a gig sponsored by local radio station
WHOV-FM. On May 13, Aaron will hit the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club
stage with Phillip Doc Martin in Maryland and perform on May 14 at a show
presented by WVST-FM in Richmond, Virginia. Then it’s back to the studio to
finish “Color and Passion.” Aaron shall emerge for a June 17 concert at The
Perfect Note in Birmingham, Alabama; June 18 at Atlanta’s St. James Club where
he will share the bill with soul-jazz trumpeter Joey Sommerville; and June 25
for a date at the King Center in Melbourne, Florida with Sommerville and
saxophonist Warren Hill.
Along with
his busy solo career, Aaron juggles being a first-call session player,
in-demand sideman, and songwriter and producer for other artists. He hosts the
nationally syndicated radio show “Blake Aaron Live with Tina Anderson.”
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