As recorded over three consecutive weekends in October at JazzTrax. If you were one of the thousands in attendance, listen and reminisce back on an incredible Island Weekend, or on the Concerts from one of the other weekends you didn't attend. If you didn't make it this Fall, now's your chance for your Holiday Weekend ears, to put you too, inside the Avalon Ballroom... looking out to Sea. From Peter White unplugged 'under the stars' at the Wrigley Ranch, Opening Night, Thursday, October 1st. To George Duke's smash performance on Closing Evening, Sunday October 18th, which will shortly be named 'The 2009 JazzTrax 'Best Live Performance of the Year'. You'll hear the Stars... Jesse Cook, Earl Klugh, Eric Darius, former NY Yankee turned jazz guitarist Bernie Williams, Michael Lington, Tim Bowman. and the up and comers who stole the show... female Trumpeter Cindy Bradley (soon to be named JazzTrax 2009 'Debut Artist of the Year'), Phillip 'Doc' Martin, Drew Davidsen, Gail Jhonson. You'll hear Phillip "Doc" Martin express his amazement arriving for the very first time on Smooth Jazz Island at feeling he was stepping off a boat in Italy. On-Line you don't have to wait for the Weekend, listen right now to the Concerts from October's JazzTrax Live Performance Stage.

And to make listening to this 5 Hour holiday weekend special from Catalina Island the most fun. When you tune in On-Line, start reading the Festival Program on line and looking at all the pictures from the Festival Picture Pages shot by Ken Jones and Pat Benter and others. This week's entire 5-Hour Syndicated Radio Show is the Stars of Smooth Jazz who stepped off boats in October in the tiny seaport village of Avalon and then up onto the JazzTrax Live Performance Stage in the Avalon Ballroom ...looking out to Sea.

She is shortly to be named the JazzTrax Debut Artist of 2009. Following her stunning live performances in October on the JazzTrax live performance stage, Debut trumpeter Cindy Bradley visits the JazzTrax Studio again this weekend. Her stories will include three overnight 'red eyes' from JFK in N.Y. to LA to get to the JazzTrax Festival and not miss her day job as an elementary school teacher in New Jersey.

Instead of waiting as expected to 2010 to release his next CD, Euge Groove's new record label, Shanachie, decided to get his new 'Sunday Morning' CD out before Christmas. As Euge joins us in the JazzTrax Studio this weekend for it's debut, he will suddenly decide to tell the inside story as to why his ten new songs have come out so 'gospelly', even though he's always had a Gospel twinge to his sax sound. It will be an amazing story of heading to Europe with Tina Turner on her World Tour (he's been her saxophonist since 2000), and out of the blue getting hit with panic attacks. Something he'd never even heard of before. For the first time he'll describe on JazzTrax how he spent four months of hell in Europe dealing with this. How he'd be fine on stage and how writing his new songs on his computer in hotel rooms across Europe were his only calming times. And of dealing with the difference of European doctors on a condition he could never have imagined after experiencing the best financial year of his life.

JazzTrax Guest
Dan Kuramoto to Debut 'Legacy'

Hiroshima released their very first in September 1979. Thus their new 'Legacy' CD celebrates their 30 years of sound on CD. Dan Kuramoto, who along with then wife June Kuramoto, forged this unique sound of East Los Angeles 3rd Generation Japanese into one of the first and most exciting Smooth Jazz Bands will be in the JazzTrax Studio with Art Good this weekend to reflect and Explain how they used Facebook and their website to let their fans choose the 10 most popular Hiroshima songs. How they then went back in studio and re-recorded those 10 songs... plus one of their favorites added, so that the songs are more than they first were. And how lucky it was for him (although the marriage didn't last...the musical partnership did) and lucky for us, that he married the top Koto player in the world and the unusual way that June Kuramoto became a Koto player.

JazzTrax Guest
Greg Adams 'East Bay Soul'

Trumpeter Greg Adams has one of Fall’s finest brand new and he joins Art Good in the JazzTrax Studio this weekend to debut ‘east bay soul.’ It includes an unusual amount of vocals and harkens back to Greg’s early days creating the Tower of Power horns out of Oakland’s East Bay.

JazzTrax Guest
Jeff Golub to Debut 'Blues for You'

Are you ready for the blues? The King of Smooth Jazz blues has long been guitarist Jeff Golub. He’s in the JazzTrax Studio with Art Good this weekend to debut his new ‘Blues for You.’

JazzTrax Guest
George Benson to Debut 'Songs & Stories'

When George Benson releases something brand new, it's time to bring out the champagne and pop the cork. No matter the economy because with a full CD of new Benson at least the musical part of the recession is over. Benson is in the JazzTrax Studio with Art Good this weekend debuting Fall's new 'Songs and Stories' on which he redoes some old James Taylor, has one song collaborations with Norman Brown and Lalah Hathaway and mixes it up between his vocals and scatting instrumentals.

JazzTrax Guest
Catalina Island Bound George Duke

George Duke sits in with Art Good on the JazzTrax Showcase this weekend. As he gets set to make his first-ever appearance on a JazzTrax Live Performance Stage in one week on Catalina Island. The veteran keyboardist and producer remembers a time when funk was a powerful force not just in popular music, but in social discourse. Frequently with a measure of wit and irony, and often with a strong dose of positivity at the core. He's got stories to tell including how Frank Zappa caused him 30 years ago to move from the Bay Area to Southern California.

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Jesse Cook to Debut 'The Rumba Foundation'

The JazzTrax Festival Stage was the site of the U.S. Debut in 1995 of French Canadian Rumba Guitarist Jesse Cook who returns to that very Avalon Ballroom stage in just over a week as the headliner for the Saturday Evening Session for Week Two of the Festival. This weekend as we get set for that great show, Jesse Cook talks of 'Rumba Foundation' to be released as he arrives on the Island.

JazzTrax Guest
Stormin Norman Brown

Norman Brown joins Art Good in the JazzTrax Studio this weekend.To talk of how life changes after winning a Grammy. Something he did that can never be taken away. To talk of how playing the JazzTrax Festival in October on Catalina Island is... the bomb. To tell how his friendship with George Benson, to whom he was vastly compared in his early days, led to a fantastic one-song collaboration on this Fall's new Benson. And with breaking news that Norman Brown's soldier daughter is headed for service in Iraq at Christmas, and how she broke it to her Guitar Singing Dad.

JazzTrax Guest
New Saxophonist Phillip 'Doc' Martin to debut 'Realization'

This week JazzTrax debuts yet another new 2009 Artist. He's actually on his 3rd set, but as Saxophonist Phillip 'Doc' Martin joins Art Good in the JazzTrax Studio this weekend, He's likely to finally hit it from coast to coast with his new 'Realization' CD. He was college acquaintances with Eric Darius in neighboring colleges in Florida and why Doc in the middle of his name? He's a dentist in The D.C. suburb of Silver Springs, Maryland. Full time dentist and full time musician. He's a first time JazzTrax guest just before he brings his live show to Catalina Island for the first time

Keyboardist Oli Silk is also on the show this weekend after spending the summer as a house guest of fellow Brit, Peter White in Los Angeles. Just before Oli comes to Catalina Island where he had his U.S. debut in 2006.

JazzTrax Guest
Peter White to debut 'Good Day'

Peter White's very 1st radio interview as he began his solo career 19 years ago was with Art Good on JazzTrax. This weekend he returns for the umpteenth time to debut yet another brand new CD.'Good Day', Peter's first project of brand new compositions since 2004 (having done a project of covers & Christmas in between). Basia is a guest and Peter will tell the story of that song and other songs and how it came to be that British Keyboardist Oli Silk would have just spent the Summer staying at Peter White's home in Los Angeles. Peter will also remember his very first big stage solo concert... at the 1991 Catalina Island JazzTrax Festival and what he went through to figure that show out.

JazzTrax Guest
Yankee Guitarist Bernie Williams
JazzTrax End of Summer Labor Day Weekend Radio Special

It's the JazzTrax End of Summer Holiday Weekend Radio Special and what better way to celebrate than with the newest Jazz Guitarist to our World whow as one of the 'Boys of Summer' for 16 seasons, roaming the outfield at Yankee Stadium, collecting Gold Gloves, 5 All Star Game appearances and 4 World Series rings in 5 World Series appearances. Bernie Williams is a first time JazzTrax guest with a new album, 'Moving Forward' on which Wayman Tisdale and Bruce Springsteen both guest as the former New York Yankee gets set to arrive in October on the JazzTrax Live Performance Stage on Catalina Island.

Art Good also celebrates the End of Summer with 2 Packs of all Summer's finest New Releases. Two songs, back-to-back from the new Najee, Jessy J, George Benson, Paul Taylor, Rick Braun, Four 80 East, Jeff Golub and more and already listening into Fall from the forthcoming Peter White, Jesse Cook and Greg Adams.

JazzTrax Guest
Cooking with Keiko
Just about 99% of the time the JazzTrax Guest has a Brand New CD coming out that week. But not this week. Lovely Japanese keyboardist Keiko Matsui joins us this week because she's about to do something she's only done once officially before... and the before, was on Christmas Day in a Tokyo Church. She's about to perform Solo. Just her to her keys. She's a little nervous. But she's doing it on her favorite place on Earth ...Catalina Island. Keiko will tell us her plans, including drawing Art Good into her Oct. 15th Unplugged at the Wrigley Ranch performance to chat together a bit on stage. This weekend she'll tell us why she e-mails at 3 a.m. and what she's cooking at her home outside Tokyo. We'll find it a bit Americanized.

JazzTrax Guest
Lions and Tigers and Oh My... Najee
His name is Jerome Najee Rasheed. Okay, we'll just stick with 'Najee' who joins us in the JazzTrax Studio this week. Because next week he releases his newest, 'Mind Over Matter.' Wait till you hear the two HOT songs he did with Jeff Lorber and one of Anita Baker (and Will Downing's) song writers Gary Taylor on a tastey 'Moon Over Carolina' vocal. And stories of the wild Florida critters hanging outside his Orlando home studio... like Wild Boar, Wild Turkeys, Peacocks (not NBC's because ABC owns Disney or the other way around), even Alligators and Wild Bears.

JazzTrax Guest
Swimming with Jessy J
Joining Art in the JazzTrax Studio this week...young Sax Splash Jessy J, who here in August, has come with a 2nd solo project 'True Love". Jessy says is not a guy, nor a dog, but her love of her music. 'True Love' is her follow-up to the smash 'Tequila Moon' which rode her to No. 1 on the charts and gained her JazzTrax 2008 Debut Artist of the Year honors. But the splash will be taken further as Jessy tells of her passion of Swimming and how she found pools and oceans all over the place to swim in Europe, touring for a third straight summer with Michael Bolton. And she'll remember her first trip to the Catalina Island JazzTrax Festival in 1994. While Jessy was still in Middle School in Hemet, California, the young saxophonists Mom told her and her sister they were going to an Island... and a Jazz Festival... and now this October, she herself headlines there on the Avalon Ballroom marquee for a 4th straight Fall.

JazzTrax Guest
Eric Darius
On an Island Friday Night last October this young dashing dynamic Saxophonist from Wesley Chapel, Florida, just outside Tampa, so electrified the Opening Night JazzTrax .audience in the Casino Ballroom ...looking out to Sea, that midway through the show Art Good knew he was watching the 2008 JazzTrax Best Performance of the Year, so honored at Year's End. Eric is playing seemingly everywhere these days coming off his 1st No. 1 Radio Hit of his life last fall, "Goin' All Out," from the Jakarta Jazz Festival in Indonesia to the Castlebury Jazz Festival near Orlando and of course returning to Catalina Island in October to blow it apart again. As he arrives for a visit with Art Good at the JazzTrax Studio this Week, he'll reminisce back on his introduction to the world, his 1st big stage appearance at the 2004 JazzTrax Festival. He calls each October almost a homecoming experience for him because the Avalon Ballroom is where it all began for him. He'll share his hobby of fashion as he is now modeling Privacy Premium Jeans and tell how David Aldridge of ESPN is a fan and carries his tunes on his personal I-Pod. And how his NBA team is the Cleveland Cavaliers, only because of Lebron James.

JazzTrax Guest
Rick Braun debuts "All it Takes"
Rick Braun comes to the JazzTrax Studio This Week. You can start listening Right Now because This Week, the famed Trumpet Player from Allentown who forged his style playing and touring with War, Rod Stewart and Sade, has released a new solo project He joins Art Good to Debut, 'All It Takes.' and the breaking news will be that even as Rick produced this Summer's new Richard Elliot 'Rock Steady.' following their 1st ever collaboration 'RnR' in 2007, Rick and Richard plan to release a 2nd Collaboration in 2010 and develop their collaborations into a Fourplay type All Star project. Rick will also tout his World Champion Lakers and tell of the rare fight he had with his wife on the way home from a Dodger/Phillies game as to whether they would watch the end of the Laker's Play-off Game LIVE or the entire thing on Tivo.

JazzTrax Early Listens this week include the New Ones comin' in August from George Benson, Najee, Jessy J (a full JazzTrax Sampling because 'True Love' is being released Next Week, Jeff Golub and the new Peter White comin' in Sept.

JazzTrax Guest
Drew Davidsen
JazzTrax Presents America with a 2nd outstanding 2009 Debut Artist this Summer. Having just debuted young Trumpeter Cindy Bradley (who is also coming to Catalina Island in October), this weekend JazzTrax debuts young Towson, Maryland Guitarist Drew Davidsen coming to Catalina Island in October.

Drew served in Desert Storm in the Navy. His Grandmother immigrated from Norway. His Grandfather worked on a barge that daily went to and from the Statue of Liberty. His father was a world renowned Astro Physicist (Drew's lst single is titled 'Astro') Who worked at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescopes. When he died 7 years ago, his obituary in the New York Times covered 2 pages. But as famous as his Dad was, it was Dad who began taking Drew to concerts at Baltimore's Pier 6 as early as age two. Drew saw Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald and scores more and his Dad impressed upon him the guitar stylings of Joe Pass. This is Drew's first ever radio interview.