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Sunday, September 29, 2013

QUINN RECORDS TM RELEASES NEW ALBUM ON NOVEMBER 5 THE BEST OF OLIVER JOHNSON

by Dwight L. Quinn
09/29/2013


Two time Sodexho Award-winning blues/soul/jazz trumpeter Oliver Johnson is  one of the most proliferated trumpet greats of all time....Oliver, known as the guy who brought the trumpet to Soul." On November 5, 2013 Quinn Records TM will release The Best of Oliver Johnson, a rocking collection of Oliver's top tunes  celebrating Oliver's six years as an international blues/soul/jazz recording artist and a professional musical experience that started  at age seven. Recorded in Centreville, Illinois and produced by Quinn Records TM producer/ songwriter/ label owner,Dwight L. Quinn the album is a mix of blues and soul sounds that allowed Oliver to stretch his thundering-trumpet solo's to all time highs.

Oliver wrote,You Make Me Sing The Blues track, Quinn wrote five additional tracks and the album was topped with four covers. The songs were collected from Oliver's best-sellers. The Best of Oliver Johnson will bring Oliver's discography to nine albums,since signing with Quinn Records TM in 2004.

 Making up the core of Oliver's Nite Train band on the CD are Benton (drums), Henry Taylor
(guitar), Oliver (keyboards), Nephew Davis (bass), Oliver (Trumpet). Oswald Peters and Julio each add guitar to three tracks. Oliver, who vocal duties are to wam-bam the audience, was inspired by the sessions to monorate in the songs, something that ole band musician use to do, talk to the audience and/or the band members while the song is in play, singing If You Repay Evil For Good,Oliver would break out and direct his Nite Train Band and shout out to whoever is listening that it's hot up in here, making The Best of Oliver Johnson the most personal, free-jamming and just plain fun recording of  his nearly four-decade career.

According to Oliver, "I have a personal attachment to the music in this album. Mr. Harry Turner my music teacher while in high school would always reminded me that music is about feeling -- And I don't ever forget that".
My hope is that everyone who listens to,The Best of Oliver Johnson feels it. I know that I sure did!" Oliver  is signed with the prestigious LA De Da Entertainment and Events in St. Louis and he will be touring nationally in support of the album.

Oliver's history is proof that dreams do come true. Oliver at age six, began his study as a vocalist with his mother,Roberta Johnson of Uttica Mississippi. Roberta, who was a gospel church singer, also introduced Oliver to the music of performers like Louis Armstrong and Nancy Wilson. When Oliver was eight years old, a famous jazz organist Tabb Smith and his groups use to rehearse in Oliver's home. At ten years old, Oliver started the study of the trumpet with Mr. Harry Turner of the Count Basie Band.

Oliver's first professional performances at thirteen, started at the Cosmo Hall in East St. Louis that featured regular acts like Ike Turner, Johnny Johnson, Chuck Berry, Little Milton and Albert King.
After high school Oliver started touring with Waestmoreland, Inc. The Band that eventually became Albert King's Band included Motown-Recording regulars like, Tyrone Perry and Paul Jackson. For twelve years (12) Oliver toured throughout UK and Japan playing trumpet and singing with Mel and Tim (Backfield In Motion), Joe Tex (Skinny Leg's and All), Shirley Brown (Woman to Woman), Albert King (Born Under A Bad Sign), Gladys Knight & The Pips, Rufus Thomas (Walking The Dog), and Carla Thomas (B-A-B-Y Baby).

Aside from Oliver's regular performances he has recently played the Black Rep's Production "One More Time". Oliver is mostly known for his versatility in many different music formats, from Be-bop trumpet to Falsetto R&B singing.

He first recorded under his own name with his Cheese and Butter album a self-produced, project with the help of Roberta his mother. Hard Times! was his second project, Hard Times was later picked up and re-issued on Quinn Records TM label.
He made his first solo albums two in the late 1990's, with bands featuring outstanding musicians, including famed guitarist Oswald Peters. With his be-bop sound and rockin blues band (later featuring side man Henry Taylor), it wasn't long before he was adopted by the southern soul audience as one of their own. .

Oliver signed with Quinn Records TM in 2004, releasing Hard Times: On The Other Side of Midnight!
(which earned him his two Sodexho Lifetime Achievement Awards). In 2007 he joined the late Earl Wilson Jr. Gateway Classics annual events!. He won a Sedexho Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 for his dedication to the arts.
During the mid-2000s Oliver has continued recording and touring relentlessly, playing clubs, concert halls and festivals all over, electrifying audiences wherever he performs. Oliver's 2012 Argosy Casino Show featuring the legendary Richard Brooks original founding member of infamous,Impressions was hailed as an over-whelming success.
Oliver and his Nite Train Band continues to tour and work nitely in clues and venues all around the St. Louis City and Metropolitan area and shortly Oliver  will be touring  internationally with his own band.


The Best of Oliver Johnson proves Oliver Johnson's be-bop rocking trumpeting  is a true force of nature, while his songs and lyrics are a living history of the blues n soul earning him the reprutation as the guy who bought the trumpet to soul.
His thundering trumpet like Gabriel's is blowing the walls of blues and soul away. His improvisations on the blues and soul are full of fun and good humor. The blues and soul don't get much better."




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Sunday, September 22, 2013

KEVIN WHEELER/KL&R2 CAMP DEBUTED A NEW TRACK TODAY.

by Dwight L. Quinn

The music pro-lif-er-ators over at the Kevin Wheeler/KL&R2 camp debuted a new track today targeted to the audiences of the world’s leading Soul n' Blues guru, the late great Solomon Burke.

” Launched as a tribute recognizing Mr. Burke's great contribution to the art and to the soul n' blues music industry, Kevin's team's aim is to set out and re-discover the profound life impact of this icon works.

The track was made into a medley of songs selected from a broad collection of world-class hits, made famous by Mr. Burke and were fan favorites exclusively for Soul n' blues users. The KL team titled the new track," The Soul of A Man (Medley of Songs by Solomon Burke) the mix of medelys includes, If You Need Me,Tonights The Night and The Price I had To Pay and clocks in at 4:08 minutes in length.

 The songs intro begins with a thundering drum role that would catch the listener by surprise at first, and the second wave Kevin makes this heart-felt announcement, dedicating the song to Mr. Solomon Burke and praying that he rest-in-peace and then he proceeds on into these touching medlodies of moving songs, consisting of “If You Need Me","Tonights The Night," and" The Price I Had To pay". “The Soul of A Man",(The Medleys of Solomon Burke) will rank high among the great works of Kevin Wheeler & KL&R2.

We commend him for his great courage and love for the art and music to take on such a huge undertaking in the effort to keep the Works of a past legend such as Solomon Burke,alive. It ends with a higher,powerful tenor rises that is the signature of Kevin's large vocal ranges that pushes the song skyward as the minutes ticks down to closing of the popular soul medleys the esteemed brava that Kevin has played to crowds worldwide. 

“I was always a Traditional Quartet Gospel singer before I was making soul tracks,” said Kevin. “The Traditional Quartet Gospel singing is the backbone of soul music. Gospel [have] been the direct contributor, and soul n'blues are the way I can bring fresh sounds to people. Real Soul feeling don’t wait for the right timing, it just lets go.. Soul music gives me an audience of stable adults that LOVE soul and dance music from urban stlye genres. I now have the ability to share that soulful and enlightening vision in its purest form with all my fans.



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