The
Smooth Jazz Live Crew was blessed with the presence of Philadephia
native,Contemporary Vocalist,,keyboardist and music director Gail
Jhonson & her incompriable band at Spaghettini on Saturday, November
26th. Smooth Jazz Live knows that this first lady of Smooth Jazz is no
stranger to the world of playing music. Gail Jhonson,was keyboardist and
music director with Norman Brown's Summer Storm, has enjoyed 2 indie
label releases. She played her new songs from her new CD Her Story and
she killed it once again! The piano melodies are sweet, the grooves are
mesmerizing, the flavor is a compact blend of jazz and R&B. She has
been accompanied in the past by recording artists: Paul Brown, Nelson
Braxton, James Lloyd, Marion Meadows & Grammy award winner Norman
Brown. Tonight she featured her daughter, who is on her way to being a
Alist Artist right out of High School. The Smooth Jazz Live crew were
joined by close friends Larry and Barb Emdur,Tamara Collins,Rhonda
Kilpatrick,Carolyn Jones,Anisha Wilson,Scott Mackie,Lj Holifield, Tina
Marie Wong,Maria Gallo Diaz, & our favorite staff at Spaghettini in
Seal Beach, Ca. Fellow band member and vocalist/musician,Robert
McDonald, blew the crowd away with a special request to singing “This
Masquerade”...and got a standing ovation...As er said,Gail Jhonson is
promoting her new CD titled "Her Story".while rocking the house with her
amazing band of cats Rob McDonald on Bass, LJ Holifield,Isha Love on
synth, and the one and only Gary Stanionis, Drummer, Percussionist, Song
Writer, Musician. Gary even gave Smooth Jazz Live's own, Frances Cohen,
Shekere lessons after the hot as hell show...
