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I just can't believe our good fortune. I am blessed to have an unprecedented opportunity to interview a very special guest in our Redding studio. 32 year old Sarah McKenzie is a tremendously talented jazz singer, jazz pianist, music composer and music arranger that has a great future. She will be with us to discuss the release of her new album Secrets Of My Heart, to give us the story behind her remarkable career, and to give us inside information about some of the songs from her now five albums. 

She is already famous in her homeland of Australia and in Europe where she now resides. She has performed around the world including at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy and the famous Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.  State side she has played at Boston Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Monterey Jazz Festival, at jazz festivals in the bay area, and at the Blue Note in New York. She will be performing at the 37th annual San Francisco Jazz Festival in June. She has worked with Michael Buble and with Chris Botti. Many feel that very soon she is poised to join the rarefied air occupied by superstars Diana Krall and Nora Jones.

I will devote an entire special edition show to this interview and her music. I hope to broadcast this on Saturday April 20th and Wednesday April 24th.  This week I will  open our first hour by playing a selection from her brand new album Secrets Of My Heart, just released yesterday on March 29th. The second hour will begin with a selection from Sarah McKenzie's previous four albums. Please continue to tune in for more information about this unprecedented event.  You will not want to miss this show. 


Our new releases this week include Keiko Matsui, Norman Brown, Jazz Funk Soul, Quincy Jones, Nelson Rangell, Marqueal Jordan, and Blake Aaron. 


In the middle of the first hour I will play the top three songs in smooth jazz.  We have a new number one this week.


The second hour is devoted to classics from smooth jazz.

The end of the show features classic among classics. This week we have the great, greater than great Grover Washington Jr. with a song dedicated to his favorite basketball player Dr J, Julius Erving.



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