Kirk Whalum

Kirk Whalum (born July 11, 1958) is an American smooth jazz saxophonist and songwriter. He toured with Whitney Houston for more than seven years and soloed in her single "I Will Always Love You", the best-selling single by a female artist in music history.

Whalum has recorded a series of well received solo albums and film soundtracks, with music ranging from pop to R&B to smooth jazz. Kirk’s musical accomplishments have brought him a total of 12 Grammy nominations. He won his first Grammy award in 2011 for Best Gospel Song (“It’s What I Do”, featuring Lalah Hathaway) alongside lifelong friend and gifted writer, Jerry Peters.

Biography

Kirk Whalum was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Melrose High School and Texas Southern University where he was a member of the World Famous Ocean of Soul Marching Band. In addition to singing in his father's church choir, Whalum learned to love music from his grandmother, Thelma Twigg Whalum, a piano teacher, and two uncles, Wendell Whalum and Hugh "Peanuts" Whalum, who performed with jazz bands around the country. He told John H. Johnson's magazine Ebony Man in a 1994 profile, "The music I like to play and write encompasses the four elements I grew up with: Memphis R&B, gospel, rock, and jazz. The emphasis, though, is on melody, period."

Everette Harp

Everette Harp (born August 17, 1961, in Houston, Texas) is an American blues, jazz and gospel saxophonist who has recorded on Blue Note and Capitol Records. Harp's 2006 album, In the Moment, debuted in the number one position of Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Chart.

Biography

Everette Harp started playing piano at two, and began practicing saxophone at the age of four. The youngest of the eight children of a minister, and piano/organist mother gospel music was one of Harp's earliest influences. Harp started playing jazz in high school (High School for Performing and Visual Arts, Houston), and attended North Texas State University as a music major in the early 1980s. While there he joined Phi Beta Sigma. Working as an accountant for a short time, Harp played in local Houston bands, most notably a local jazz/funk group called The Franchise, which released its own album locally, which included the first recording of Harp's "There's Still Hope" in 1987. Harp moved to Los Angeles in 1988. He immediately toured briefly with Teena Marie, and then internationally with songstress Anita Baker. A position he was ask to play by pianist\producer legend George Duke. In 1990 George Duke signed Harp to a production deal, through Capitol Records, to record with a little known group he had constructed named 101 North. George Duke's hopes that Everette would get a solo deal with Bluenote Records would almost immediately be realized when then president of Bluenote Records, Bruce Lundvall, chose to sign Everette to his first solo deal before the 101 North. record was released. In 1992 Bluenote Records released Harp's eponymous solo debut, produced by George Duke, to great success.

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