Sat, October 7

Smooth Jazz Lovers Presents
Eric Darius & Adam Hawley

Genre: Jazz
Doors: 6:00PM
Show: 7:00PM

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ERIC DARIUS
Saxophonist, composer, producer, and vocalist Eric Darius likes to play by his own rules. Fearlessly pushing all musical boundaries, he is one of the most exciting musicians to enter the Contemporary Jazz scene in the last decade. His explosive arrival as a recording artist at the age of 17 caused a frenzy worldwide! Now, with six critically acclaimed albums under his belt, a Number One hit single, and Seven Top 10 radio hits on Nielsen’s R&R/Billboard Contemporary Jazz Charts, international recording artist, Eric Darius’ star continues to rise straight to the top. Prophetically hailed Debut Artist of the Year by Smooth Jazz News in 2004, Eric has shared the stage with innumerable world renown, Grammy Award-winning artists, such as Prince, Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, David Foster, Carlos Santana, Babyface, Wynton Marsalis & George Benson, just to name a few. His music innovatively crosses over all music boundaries from Jazz, R&B, Hip-Hop, to Pop, creating a very distinctive, fresh sound and approach that is uniquely his own.

ADAM HAWLEY
It has been an exciting past year for Guitarist Adam Hawley, who’s debut record “Just The Beginning” was released on March 18. The first single 35th St. ft Eric Darius had the longest run at #1 on Billboard in 2016: • #1 on Billboard (5 weeks) • #1 Allen Kepler Smooth Jazz Countdown (4 weeks) • #3 Year-End Billboard for 2016 • #2 Year-End Allen Kepler 2016 • #1 Mediabase (2 weeks) • #2 on SmoothJazz.com • #1 most added on Billboard and SmoothJazz.com in first week Since then the second single “Joy Ride” co-written and produced with Greg Manning is currently #10 on Billboard with a bullet. And Adam has been named both Smooth Jazz News and JazzTrax Debut Artist of the Year. Adam signed with Kalimba Music (founded by Maurice White of Earth, Wind, & Fire) in August 2015. His first offering on the Kalimba label features Darius along with Euge Groove, Brian Culbertson, Gerald Albright, and Michael Lington.