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Double Grammy winner, Paul Brown, both as an artist and producer, is responsible for more that 60 #1 contemporary jazz radio hits!  PB has produced and shared the stage with a who’s-who of music royalty such as Luther Vandross, George Benson, Patti Austin, Boney James, Norman Brown, and Peter White, just to name a few.

Collaborations have been plentiful in the recording artist’s career, including his recent album Soul Searching with guitar icon Larry Carlton.

The Los Angeles born and raised guitarist’s R&B driven sound has been a foundational element in smooth and urban jazz since the early 1990s, when he produced saxophonist Boney James’ breakout debut Trust. He has since worked with many of the genre’s most influential artists including Larry Carlton, Dave Koz & Friends, Euge Groove, Rick Braun, Kirk Whalum, Jeff Golub, and Al Jarreau!


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Album Review

Norman Brown: Let's Get Away

Read "Let's Get Away" reviewed by La-Faithia White


Norman Brown is an American smooth jazz guitarist and singer. Brown's style is contemporary, with a soul-jazz rhythmic storytelling vibe. His interest in guitar began at age eight, after discovering his brother's acoustic six-string. Brown's own take on the perfect getaway involves “a joyful and peaceful mental state, surrounded by companionship in an atmosphere of inspiration and beauty that is illustrated by the colors of nature." Each song delivers the genius of Brown's playing while giving attention to the fusion ...

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Album Review

Paul Brown / Marc Antoine: Foreign Exchange

Read "Foreign Exchange" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


When two jazz guitarists of different styles, George Benson and Earl Klugh, came together, it was hailed as a success. The formula also worked for Lee Ritenour and Larry Carlton. Now, Paul Brown and Marc Antoine attempt to capture that flair with Foreign Exchange. California native Brown is, perhaps, one of the most established influences in smooth jazz. A producer who has contributed a lot of the cookie-cutter programming for such artists as Boney James, Carlton, and ...

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Album Review

Paul Brown: Upfront

Read "Upfront" reviewed by Brian Soergel


You probably should have seen this coming, but it’s still somewhat of a surprise. When the king of smooth jazz producers decides to make an album, you figure it’s a vanity project. But what you get instead is one of 2004’s early surprises, top-to-bottom smooth jazz stunner brimming with bright melodies, good picking by Brown on the guitar and enough hits to fill a Christmas stocking.

More than any other producer in his genre, Brown defines what makes a hit. ...

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Music Industry

Axon Radio Releases Naptown Hustle Featuring Paul Brown

Axon Radio Releases Naptown Hustle Featuring Paul Brown

Source: Axon Radio

Two-time Grammy winner Paul Brown and Billboard hitmaker Darren Rahn team up with the Indianapolis duo on “Naptown Hustle,” which began collecting playlist adds this week. While the video for contemporary jazz group Axon Radio’s new single looks like a modern love letter to their hometown, Indianapolis, the roots of “Naptown Hustle” run nearly one hundred years deep. The duo that makes up Axon Radio, drummer Travis Brant and bassist Cory Carleton, set out to honor Indianapolis’s jazz history by ...

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Get Ready For The Free 4th Annual GRandJazzFest Aug. 15-16 In Downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan

Get Ready For The Free 4th Annual GRandJazzFest Aug. 15-16 In Downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan

Source: Molly Klimas

GRandJazzFest presented by DTE Energy Foundation brings 10 diverse jazz performance acts to the Rosa Parks Circle stage in jny: Grand Rapids, Michigan on Aug. 15-16, West Michigan’s only free, weekend-long jazz festival. This year’s headline act brings together three internationally acclaimed musicians—Paul Brown and Nate Harasim with special guest Deon Yates – under the billing “The Producers.” “What’s better than one headliner? Three headliners!” GRandJazzFest Founder Audrey Sundstrom said. “This trio brings nonstop soul-shaking, house-rocking guitar, keyboard and saxophone ...

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Music Industry

Jessy J Awarded ASCAPLUS, Signs With New Management and Returns to Studio with Paul Brown

Jessy J Awarded ASCAPLUS, Signs With New Management and Returns to Studio with Paul Brown

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions

Los Angeles, CA—When singer/composer/saxophonist Jessy J sets her sights on a career goal, she follows through with laser-like precision. Two years and two albums after her auspicious debut on Peak Records/Concord Music Group, Jessy J has been selected by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) for the prestigious ASCAPLUS writing award, announced new management and is returning to the studio with Grammy Hitmaker Paul Brown. After a whirlwind year of touring and being awarded the ASCAPLUS, Jessy ...

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Interview

The Producer's Corner with Spud Too Tight Discusses Production/Engineering and Guitar Dynamics with Two-Time Grammy Award Winning Producer/Jazz Guitarist Paul Brown

The Producer's Corner with Spud Too Tight Discusses Production/Engineering and Guitar Dynamics with Two-Time Grammy Award Winning Producer/Jazz Guitarist Paul Brown

Source: entertainmentPR

Minneapolis, MN - One of the hottest and most unique celebrity driven radio platforms to hear some of Billboard's chart topping music producers, composers, arrangers and engineers discuss their production techniques and preferences, influences, music instruments, their craft, state of the art recording equipment and upcoming projects is The Producer's Corner with Spud Too Tight Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight is also prolific and gifted on keyboards, guitar/bass, drum programming, engineering and is an avid Logic Pro 8 and MacBook ...

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Recording

Paul Brown & Marc Antoine Release New Album

Paul Brown & Marc Antoine Release New Album

Source: On Target Media Group

Smooth Jazz Guitarists Paul Brown & Marc Antoine's new collaboration CD Foreign Exchange hits stores this week. The new album produced by Brown, co-produced by Antoine features guest performances by some of the genre’s most acclaimed artists (including Jessy J and keyboardists Philippe Saisse and Gregg Karukas). The collection brings out the best in both guitarists as they explore their longtime passions for a wide variety of influences; pop, jazz, old school R&B, soul-jazz, and Brazilian & Latin music. Capturing ...

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Recording

Peak Records Set to Release New Paul Brown & Marc Antoine Album

Peak Records Set to Release New Paul Brown & Marc Antoine Album

Source: On Target Media Group

Peak label-mates and superstar guitarists Paul Brown and Marc Antoine are set to release Foreign Exchange – a stylistically diverse collaboration album, available next week (4.7) on CD and digitally via Peak Records (Concord Music Group). Having performed together at ‘Paul Brown’s Guitar Night’ in 2008, two-time GRAMMY® Award winner Brown, who was in the early stages of producing a follow-up to his smash 2007 disc White Sand, invited Marc Antoine to play on one of his new songs. This ...

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Recording

Hitmaker Paul Brown Signs With GRP Records

Hitmaker Paul Brown Signs With GRP Records

Source: All About Jazz

Peerless smooth jazz producer to make debut recording under his own name in February

Hitmaker Paul Brown has signed to GRP Records, the leading contemporary jazz label for over twenty years. Brown, who has produced 38 #1 hits on Radio & Records' Smooth Jazz chart, has never before put out a recording under his own name. He will release Up Front, his GRP Records debut, in February 2004.

Ron Goldstein, President & CEO of The Verve Music Group, commented on ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Let's Get Away

Shanachie Entertainment
2022

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The Funky Joint

Soul Note
2012

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Foreign Exchange

Peak Records
2009

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White Sands

Soul Note
2007

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Upfront

GRP Records
2004

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Naptown Hustle (feat. Paul Brown)

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