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SUMMER’S HERE – AND THE “SUN’S OUT”

6/9/2019

Fast Emerging Pianist/Composer Carol Albert follows her two consecutive Top 5 Billboard Hits with the vibrant latin spiced track, produced by mega hitmaker Paul Brown.

The Multi-Talented Atlanta based artist has been a force on the Smooth Jazz Airplay Chart since 2017, scoring her biggest single ever earlier this year with "Femme Flight," which featured Ragan Whiteside and Magdalena Chovancova.

Keeping the vibrant energy of her recent Billboard Top Ten chart successes flowing, multi-talented pianist/composer Carol Albert penned her breezy, infectious and soulfully optimistic new track “Sun’s Out” – going for radio adds July 15 - as a way to combat the blues of a long, rainy winter in her hometown of Atlanta.

Carol Albert at the City Winery in Atlanta, GA

Photo Credit: Justin Rogers

Creating the perfect lighthearted soundtrack to summer, the free-flowing, slightly Latin-tinged song is the first of Albert’s to be produced by guitarist and smooth jazz hit maker Paul Brown, who has scored over 60 #1 chart smashes for genre greats Peter White, Larry Carlton, Rick Braun, Kirk Whalum, Euge Groove, the late Al Jarreau and many others. With Carol playing all keys and synth and providing her trademark wordless vocal textures, the track features Brown on guitar and percussion, Roberto Vally on bass and Gorden Campbell on drums.

A dynamic rising force in the genre since her song “Mas Que Nada” – from her album Fly Away Butterfly – hit the National Smooth Jazz Airplay charts in 2017, Albert scored her biggest success to date earlier in 2019 with “Femme Flight,” which hit #4 on the Billboard chart. Mixed by Brown and featuring Ragan Whiteside and Magdalena Chovancova, the track also earned Carol a new legion of fans via airplay on SiriusXM’s Watercolors. Earlier Billboard chart hits include “Chasing Waterfalls” (which rose to #15) and “Fly Away Butterfly,” which hit #5 in 2018, and “One Way” in 2017.

Photo Credit: Justin Rogers

“Sun’s Out makes me feel like I’m riding in a convertible with the top down, totally in synch wit the carefree joys of summer,” says Carol, whose multi-faceted career includes eight albums dating back to the 90s, including the new age-oriented releases Morning Music and Night Music. “It’s carefree, fun and bright, and every time I’ve played it live with my band, audiences really connected with it. I remember working on it on a Sunday morning when it was overcast, but I couldn’t think of the right title. Then the sun came out and I went for a walk in the park on what became a gorgeous day. The title came from that exhilarating feeling of experiencing sunlight after a long period of gray skies.”

Carol recently performed at the Smith Center in Las Vegas, City Winery in Atlanta and the Jazz in the Park series in Birmingham. Among other dates she has scheduled is an upcoming appearance on Saturday, July 6 at Brass City Jazz Fest in Waterbury CT with Marion Meadows and Adam Hawley.

The National Women Pen’s League Association awarded the Georgia Composer of the Year to Carol in 2018. Smooth Jazz Network nominated her as the Best New Artist 2017. The track “Transition” from Fly Away Butterfly was nominated in the HMMA (Hollywood Music Media) 2017 Awards in Best Contemporary Instrumental. Carol was also chosen as a Winner in the New Age Music category of the Global Peace Song Awards, 2016. She received an Alkahest Award for her Video “Mas Que Nada” in 2016. Carol also celebrated being on the Grammy Ballot 1st Round in Contemporary Instrumental in 2016 for the 1st time in her career and 2017 as well. Her composition “Lovely Time For A Child’ won a first place award in the Professional Jazz Category from the Atlanta Songwriter’s Association

“Sun’s Out” will be one of the tracks on her currently in progress follow-up album to Fly Away Butterfly.