#1 Billboard hit musicians guitarist Blake Aaron and Saxophonist Will Donato return to Middle C for a night of contemporary jazz, including tunes from Blake’s April album drop “Love & Rhythm”. Individually, these two contemporary jazz musicians are powerhouses. Performing together, they are “a must see”!

BLAKE AARON

“A genius on the guitar” – the Los Angeles Times
“Aaron’s guitar playing is stellar” – The Jazz World
”Take your pick-he’s a good picker!” – Jazz Weekly
“…one of the greatest treasures as a guitarist,” – Najee
“A guitar player’s guitarist” – Critical Blast

Guitarist Blake Aaron has taken the Contemporary Jazz world by storm recently with a total of FIVE #1 Billboard Singles.

Blake Aaron launched his career as an L.A. studio musician/sideman and has recorded and/ or performed with artists such as Philip Bailey (Earth Wind and Fire), Sheila E., Frank Stallone, Bobby Womack and Carlos Santana (Womack-Save the Children), The Gap Band, Lakeside, Dynasty, Little Anthony, Ronnie Laws, Keiko Matsui, Najee, Warren Hill, Bill Champlin (Chicago), Ellis Hall (Tower of Power) and many others.

A first call TV & Film Session Guitarist, Aaron has worked for a laundry list of television shows such as 15 years with Fox’s “MAD TV,” Steven Seagal’s “Half Past Dead 2,” “Super Dave Osborne”, “The Next Best Thing” (ABC), “The Mother Love Show,” (FOX) and “The Ben Stiller Show” (FOX).

Following in the footsteps of the smash album Color and Passion, which had THREE #1 Billboard singles and one #1 Song of the Year on the Radiowave charts for the year 2019, Blake Aaron’s upcoming album release, Love and Rhythm rockets out of the gate with another THREE #1 Billboard singles, “Feels So Right,” and “Dreamland,” AND She’s the One.”

A Billboard #1 producer himself as well as artist with his self-produced, silky-smooth “Fall for You,” as well as producing Billboard #1 songs for other artists, Aaron also teams up with hit producers Darren Rahn for the #1 Billboard single, “Groovers and Shakers,” the #1 for all of 2019 Radiowave single, “Drive,” with Greg Manning for the #1 Billboard single “Feels So Right,” and with fellow hitmaker Adam Hawley for TWO #1 Billboard singles, “Sunday Strut,” featuring saxophonist Najee, and the most recent #1 hit, “Dreamland.”

Newest album “Love & Rhythm” out right now.

WEBSITE https://www.blakeaaron.com/ 
FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/BlakeAaronArtist/ 
INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/blakeaaronmusic 
YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/@BlakeAaron
SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/artist/5DnSgdQvmYD6yU1Sp7Ik56
WATCH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSVqkt6P0V0

WILL DONATO

National Recording Artist and Saxophonist Will Donato is one of music’s most dynamic performers and an award-winning composer.

Will currently has 12 studio albums to his credit, reaching Billboard #1 with several of his singles. Single “INFINITE SOUL” (January 2019, from his album “Elevate”) has topped 3.5 million streams to date on Spotify.

A cancer survivor who truly celebrates each day and each person he meets. That perspective and appreciation of music lend themselves well to his parallel endeavor as a radio host. Will Donato & Friends, “Where Artists Tell Their Story”, is a one hour radio broadcast on Smooth Jazz Live 365 where Contemporary Jazz Artists come on the show and talk about their careers and their latest projects. The show spins current releases in the contemporary Jazz Genre which are featured on National Airplay Charts.

Will has performed with some of the best known musicians of the genre, namely Al McKay of Earth Wind and Fire, Richard Elliot, Bruce Conte of Tower of Power, Steve Reid of The Rippingtons, Brian Simpson, Steve Oliver, Gregg Karukas and Nick Colionne. He has worked in the pop music genre as well – most notably with Gerald Levert, Wynonna Judd, Toni Childs, and superstar Richard Marx. His music can be heard on the number one contemporary jazz legacy hit from Steve Oliver, “High Noon” as well as on the soundtracks from several movie scores including Thelma and Louise, The Wedding Planner, Under the Boardwalk, and No Man’s Land.

Will Donato’s most recent projects include the latest CD Supersonic, and his latest single just released this June, “DREAM MAKER”.

More about Will Donato:
WEBSITE https://www.willdonato.com/ 
FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/willdonatomusic 
INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/willdonatosax 
YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsS9_0y8Dk5jiSS8eYwpwHA 
SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/artist/0m8061Uhsuwz9fv6AJGOs9 
WATCH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X8Vik9i-i4