Bob Baldwin - Cape Town At Night

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From the Album: It's Okay to Dream, Year of Release: 2024#jazz#smoothjazz
Lyrics: Cape Town At Night

Seminal international recording artist Bob Baldwin has upped the ante on his own bountiful pace of releasing one 12-song album per year. On June 28, the keyboardist known for his contemporary urban-jazz sound will release two new albums from his City Sketches Records distributed by BFD/The Orchard, the 36th and 37th records in the musician, producer, composer and arranger’s vast catalogue. “Songs My Father Would Dig” is a straight-ahead jazz project and “It’s Okay To Dream” is a contemporary jazz outing. The releases mark the first time in 24 years that an artist has dropped two new albums on the same day in two different genres of jazz.

Another unique aspect of Baldwin’s extensive repertoire is that he exclusively owns the rights to all but seven of his albums, which makes him one of a select few recording artists who can make that claim. That places Baldwin in the company of Michael Jackson, Prince, James Brown, Ray Charles and Bob James, each of whom were proponents of artists owning the rights to their own recordings.

Baldwin describes “It’s Okay to Dream” as “a contemporary playlist of thoughts and dreams.” Crafted from a toolbox of R&B, soul, funk, jazz, house music, Latin and South African rhythms and melodies, the album was previewed earlier this year with the invigorating single, “I’m Good (Thanks for Asking).” On June 17, the second single, “Turn Up The Positive,” will begin collecting playlist adds. Baldwin wrote the entire album, revisiting one of his songs from the 1980s, “Get the Love,” and found inspiration from his wife (“That One”) and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (“Dreamin’ the Dream”). He provides authentic South African culture on “Malema” and “Cape Town at Night,” which were cowritten by Mozambique artist Jimmy Dludlu and performed by Dludlu’s bandmembers.

“Some of the music for the album was written in a dream. My hope is that the playlist takes you to a quiet place where you can hear your beautiful voice beyond the bustling busyness of your own existence. This music is exactly what you need at the perfect time,” said Baldwin who just completed a concert tour through Johannesburg, South Africa.

There is one intensely emotional and poignant song that ends both new albums. “Til We Meet Again,” presented in instrumental and vocal versions on “Songs My Father Would Dig” and instrumentally on “It’s Okay to Dream,” was written for Baldwin’s late brother, William, who died tragically in a 1991 automobile accident at just 19-years-old.

“It’s a constant reminder, even 33 years later, that you never forget that day, the moment the phone rings and you hear the pain coming across the phone from my sister, who had a visit from a local police officer delivering that horrific news. I had just seen William twelve hours prior at a family event. That day ripped my heart to shreds. I will never forget him and his spirit. This song is a revisitation of a great man. We always ask, ‘what if’…what if he were alive today?” shared Baldwin.

While jazz and R&B have been constants throughout his solo recording career ever since his 1988 debut album, “Long Way to Go,” Baldwin has also recorded Brazilian jazz albums (“The Brazilian-American Soundtrack” and “Brazil Chill”) as well as entire collections devoted to reimagining the music of The Beatles (“Bob Baldwin presents Abbey Road and the Beatles”), Thom Bell (“Betcha By Golly Wow”), Wonder (“MelloWonder: Songs in the Key of Stevie”), and Jackson (“Never Can Say Goodbye”). As a producer and songwriter, Baldwin has shaped Billboard hits and album cuts by Regina Carter, The Four Tops, Grover Washington Jr., Richard Elliot, Paul Brown, Marion Meadows, Ragan Whiteside, Will Downing and Freddie Jackson. Since 2008, Baldwin has hosted and produced a nationally syndicated radio show titled NewUrbanJazz Radio. He’s also the author of “You Better Ask Somebody! Staying On Top Of Your Career in the Friggin’ Music Business” and is working on the second edition that will address the nuances of music streaming.

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https://www.amazon.com/Its-Okay-Dream-Bob-Baldwin/dp/B0D1KTDJ54
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/its-okay-to-dream/1749149442

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