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Brian Culbertson - Another Long Night Out (2014)

2014-03-12T16:46:37Z

Brian Culbertson - Another Long Night Out (2014)


01 – City Lights (Feat. Lee Ritenour)
02 – Fullerton Ave. (Feat. Chuck Loeb)
03 – Beyond The Frontier
04 – Heroes Of The Dawn (Feat. Eric Marienthal & Rick Braun)
05 – Beautiful Liar (Feat. Steve Lukather)
06 – Double Exposure (Feat. Russ Freeman)
07 – Twilight (Feat. Eric Marienthal)
08 – Horizon (Feat. Patches Stewart)
09 – Alone With You
10 – Long Night Out (Feat. Candy Dulfer)
11 – Changing Tides (Feat. Jonathan Butler)

Brian Culbertson - Piano, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Keyboards, Euphonium, Trombone
• Russ Freeman (Rippingtons) - guitar
• Eric Marienthal (Chick Corea Elektric Band, solo and others) - sax
• Chuck Loeb (Fourplay and solo) - guitar
• Candy Dulfer (solo & Prince) - alto sax
• Steve Lukather (Toto) - guitar
• Paul Jackson, Jr. (Tonight Show with Jay Leno and countless records) - guitar
• Will Kennedy (Yellowjackets) - drums
• Jimmy Haslip (Yellowjackets, Bruce Hornsby and others) - bass
• Nathan East (Fourplay, Toto, Eric Clapton and others) - bass
• Ricky Lawson (Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Yellowjackets and others) - drums
• Michael Thompson (David Foster, Celine Dion and others) - guitar
• Lenny Castro (percussionist for everyone) - percussion
• Michael Bland (Prince and the New Power Generation) - drums
• "Patches" Stewart (Al Jarreau, Marcus Miller and others) - trumpet
• Ricky Peterson (David Sanborn) - Hammond B3 organ
• Rick Braun (solo artist) - flugelhorn
• Ray Parker Jr. (solo artist) - guitar
• 33-piece orchestra

My name is Brian Culbertson and I am a contemporary jazz multi-instrumentalist with 13 award-winning albums released over the last 20 years. I’ve been touring non-stop while continually writing and producing new music and am currently in the studio re-recording my very first album, Long Night Out, with many of the musicians that inspired me back in the day! The new version (which will be released on the 20th anniversary of the original in February of 2014) will aptly be named, Another Long Night Out.

I’ve had the idea to re-record this album for many years now and have been waiting for just the right time. Since I recorded the original while attending DePaul University in my college apartment (above a Costume Shop) with 3 roommates on a busy street in Chicago with very little money, I was extremely limited to say the least. Therefore, I had to make do with my resources at hand which meant programming most of the instruments to sound real using drum machines, synth bass and most dreadedly, sampled/synth piano. Since those days, I’ve been able to meet and work with many of the top names in the music industry so I thought coming up on the 20th anniversary of the original release would be the perfect time to re-record all of those songs with the artists and musicians that have been so influential to me since the beginning.

This record is a true passion for instrumental contemporary jazz and a real full circle for me as a recording artist...and YOU can help make it happen!

To record this album ‘the way I always wanted to make it’ is going to be a huge undertaking both financially and logistically. For starters, every song will feature a host of the biggest names in jazz, many with legendary status. I also have to hire recording and mix engineers, a few outside studios (other than my own), a mastering engineer and studio time there, plus I have an idea to use a real orchestra on four of the songs (this is not cheap). --- indiegogo.com

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Brian Culbertson - Live - 20th Anniversary Tour (2015)

2015-12-01T16:46:03Z

Brian Culbertson - Live - 20th Anniversary Tour (2015)


01. City Lights Intro 
02. Always Remember 
03. Hollywood Swinging
04. Do You Really Love Me? 
05. Come to Me 
06. All About You 
07. Let's Get Started 
08. Fullerton Ave. 
09. Beautiful Liar 
10. Get It On
11. Skies Wide Open 
12. Another Love 
13. Horizon 
14. Think Free 
15. Dreams 
16. On My Mind 
17. Secret Garden 
18. Serpentine Fire 
19. Funkin' Like My Father 
20. City Lights Outro 
21. Our Love 

Brian Culbertson - Piano, Trombone, Background Vocals & Additional Percussion
Marqueal Jordan (vocals, sax & percussion)
Adam Hawley (guitar & vocals)
Eddie Miller (keyboards & vocals)
Michael Stever (trumpet & keys)
Rodney Jones Jr. (bass) 
Chris Miskel (drums)

Recorded live at the famed Yoshi’s jazz club in Oakland, CA September 11-14, 2014.

The expression ‘been there, done that, bought the tee-shirt’ may be overused yet in the case of smooth jazz superstar Brian Culbertson he never ceases to find new and innovative ways for his myriad of fans to do just that.

Take for example the 2014 smash ‘Another Long Night Out’ which in reality was simply a reworking of his 1994 debut ‘Long Night Out’ or his latest project, ‘Live - 20th Anniversary Tour’, a blockbuster double album featuring 22 of his best loved numbers.

It was recorded live at a sold-out; eight-show stand at Yoshi’s nightclub in Oakland, CA in September of 2014 and (for those who have not experienced the phenomenon of a Culbertson live performance) captures to perfection the raw dynamic energy that is evident each and every time Culbertson steps on stage.

Another feature of a Culbertson live show is the quality and collectiveness of his backing band, many of whom have been playing with him for years. In fact the personnel has evolved over time and the current line-up of Marqueal Jordan (vocals, tenor sax & percussion), Eddie Miller (keyboards, Hammond B3 organ & vocals), Michael Stever (trumpet & keyboards), Adam Hawley (guitar & background vocals), Rodney Jones Jr. (bass) and Chris Miskel (drums) is arguably as good as it could possibly get.

For the ‘Live’ recording, these six core members were supplemented by the horn power of Doug Beavers and Doug Rowan while, Culbertson being Culbertson, he also keeps it fresh with a CD only bonus track, ‘Forever’, and a vibrant new composition, ‘Think Free’ written by Culbertson and long term collaborator Sheldon Reynolds especially for the occasion.

Can’t make it to an up-coming Culbertson gig? Then try ‘Live - 20th Anniversary Tour’. It’s the next best thing. --- smoothjazztherapy.typepad.com

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Brian Culbertson – XII (2010)

2010-08-07T10:53:05Z

Brian Culbertson – XII (2010)


01. Feelin’ It (feat. Chuck Brown) (4:30)
02. Another Love (feat. Kenny Lattimore) (4:06)
03. It’s Time (4:05)
04. Out On The Floor (feat. Brian McKnight) (5:04)
05. Waiting For You (4:39)
06. Stay Wit It (4:05)
07. Skies Wide Open (feat. Avant) (4:38)
08. Forever (4:27)
09. Don’t U Know Me By Now (feat. Faith Evans) (4:49)
10. That’s Life (feat. Earl Klugh) (4:38)
11. I Wanna Love You (feat. Ray Parker Jr.) (5:41)
12. I Don’t Know (5:08)

Given the widespread critical acclaim and commercial success Brian Culbertson garnered from 2008's retro Bringing Back the Funk, it would be understandably tempting for him -- or any musician -- to revisit it wholesale. However, Culbertson throws a changeup on XII and comes up with a set of collaborative originals with stellar guests that relies more on modern adult R&B than funk, and more on sophisticated pop than it does on contemporary jazz. He's got real star power on this set; it's a groover that includes everything from club to go-go funk, up- and midtempo R&B, and polished bedroom ballads, and it all holds together seamlessly. The set opens with "Feelin' It," which features some comedy from Sinbad in the intro and outro, but more importantly, Chuck Brown's vocals are the centerpiece -- Culbertson's piano line quotes liberally from Brown's classic "Bustin' Loose" (he gets a co-write). Ray Parker, Jr.'s guitar and Alex Al's bassline turn it into a monster. Next up is a soulful stepper in "Another Love," with vocals by Kenny Lattimore. Club makes another appearance in "Out on the Floor," with Brian McKnight laying down his brand of smooth groove above a killer string arrangement and a lockstep funky backbeat. Nu-soul balladeer Avant sings on the hit single "Skies Wide Open"; with Randy Bowland's guitar playing an excellent counterpoint to his vocal, it is among the standout cuts here. Faith Evans fronts Culbertson's band on "Don't U Know Me by Now," a midtempo attitude strutter. Parker makes a fine yet minimal vocal appearance on the simmering babymaker "I Wanna Love You," compensated for by killer guitar work and the spoken word bit from Floetry's Natalie Stewart on set closer "I Don't Know." Of the four instrumental tracks, the most notable are "It's Time" and the transcendently joyful contemporary jazz number "That's Life," co-written by Culbertson, Parker, and Earl Klugh, who also plays on it. While nothing on XII breaks new ground, one suspects that this wasn't Culbertson's intention: he was looking to write and record an album that had "quality" stamped all over it. For its diversity, imagination, and execution, he gets high marks: XII stands among his best. ---Thom Jurek, Rovi

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