George A. Johnson Signs with Wolf Entertainment for new album, "Evolution"
George A. Johnson Signs with Wolf Entertainment for an Evolution
All Star drummer George A Johnson has signed a world wide distribution deal for his new album "Evolution" with Wolf Entertainment.
All Star drummer George A Johnson has signed a world wide distribution deal for his new album "Evolution" with Wolf Entertainment.
(Free-Press-Release.com) September 19, 2011 -- If you are into Jazz, of course you have heard about Jimmy Garrison, Buster Williams, Ron Carter, Lou Donaldson, Cedar Walton, Lonnie Listen Smith, George Adams, Curtis Fuller, Johnny Hammond, Jimmy Merit, John Thaïs and Gene Ammos. But then you also heard about McCoy Tyner.
And what about Abdullah Abraham? Means anything to you? Or you would have heard about Winton Morsels and Charles Ear! Then again you might have come across Craig Handy, Milt Hinton, Shirley Scott, Wickliffe Gordon, Terrell Stafford and Sir Roland Hannah.
George A Johnson Jr. has played with them all. Three years touring with one of the very best in the Jazz world McCoy Tyner says what George is all about. A world class drummer, one of the very best around.
And where did George play live? Well he played at the biggest festivals in his genre, like the Atlantic City Jazz Festival, the Playboy Jazz Festival and Chicago Fest. He played at the Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, at Montreal Festival, The Forum in London, the Porto Jazz Festival in Portugal, Jazz Hamburg, Opera Leipzig, and North Sea Festival, at the Mellon Jazz Festival featuring Grover Washington, Jr. and featured as guest drummer with the Willie Williams Quartet at Cape May Jazz Festival. George performed with his own band at the Newport Jazz Festival in Bryant Park in New York and so on.
Now George is releasing his new album called "Evolution" and an evolution this album really is. It is an evolution in Jazz, combining more traditional elements with way out there modern Jazz styles, often with a solid funk groove that George hammers down. Then again there is a South American sounding "open chord" track called "Midnight Man", or the synthesizer haunted track called "Mr Clean". All seven songs have something very special something for jazz, rock jazz and funk jazz fans that takes you deep.
George A Johnson Jr., Born in Bridgeton, NJ in 1953, is a third generation drummer. Johnson Jr. began playing drums at the age of five and began playing professionally at the age of 12 in the Atlantic City music scene. As a young adult Elvin Jones and Art Blakey mentored Johnson; in fact, it was Jones who helped Johnson pick out his first set of drums.
To work with such a fantastic musician means a lot to Hellmut Wolf, director of Wolf Entertainment, who said about the new collaboration: "To be able to work with such an accomplished musician as George is an honor and pleasure. He is right up there and in the same league as some of the other artists we are working with like Robin Duhe, Jerome Smith, HB Brown and Kangwon Kim. Wolf Entertainment is representing a wonderful stable of Jazz artists, and to even know these people is amazing, let alone to gain their trust and to distribute their music. George is a real inspiration for me, as many of the people he has been playing with are absolute heroes for me. I hope to have the pleasure one day to get up there with George myself and blow some stuff to his drumming. Once the album is released we will get it to all the jazz stations and programs we are connected to, to ensure this album gets out there."
Evolution will hit all the download shops world wide by early October, are you up for a revolution evolution?
More information can be found online at http://www.wolfentertainment.com
Posted by Administration at 9/19/2011 11:02 AM 
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Categories: Urban Jazz, New Music Release, Jazz, News-Update, New Jazz Releases
Tags: 2011 Releases Jazz Music Music News Update New Jazz Albums Urban Jazz
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