Blake Aaron & Will Donato

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Guitarist Blake Aaron has taken the Contemporary Jazz world by storm recently with a total of EIGHT #1 Billboard Singles as a solo artist! Plus four #1 Billboard Singles and five #1 Mediabase singles as a producer, and two #1 Billboard Singles as a featured artist, including the #1 Billboard Song of the Year for 2022.

Following in the footsteps of the smash album Color and Passion, which had THREE #1 Billboard singles and one #1 Song of the Year on the Radiowave charts for the year 2019, Blake Aaron’s upcoming album release, Love and Rhythm rockets out of the gate with another THREE #1 Billboard singles, “She’s the One,” “Feels So Right,” and “Dreamland.” Now a Billboard #1 producer himself as well as artist with his self-produced, silky-smooth “Fall for You,” as well as producing Billboard #1 songs for other artists, Aaron also teams up with hit producers Darren Rahn for the #1 Billboard single, “Groovers and Shakers,” the #1 for all of 2019 Radiowave single, “Drive,” with Greg Manning for the #1 Billboard single “Feels So Right,” and with fellow hitmaker Adam Hawley for THREE #1 Billboard singles, “Sunday Strut,” featuring saxophonist Najee, “Dreamland,” and the most recent #1 Billboard hit, “She’s the One.”

Named “a genius on the guitar” by the Los Angeles Times, “Aaron’s guitar playing is stellar” by The Jazz World, ”Take your pick-he’s a good picker!" by Jazz Weekly, “...one of the greatest treasures as a guitarist,” by Najee, and "a guitar player's guitarist" by Critical Blast, Blake Aaron launched his career as an L.A. studio musician/sideman and has recorded and/ or performed with artists such as Philip Bailey (Earth Wind and Fire), Sheila E., Frank Stallone, The Alan Parsons Project, Bobby Womack and Carlos Santana (Womack-Save the Children), The Gap Band, Lakeside, Dynasty, Little Anthony, Ronnie Laws, Keiko Matsui, Najee, Warren Hill, Bill Champlin (Chicago), Ellis Hall (Tower of Power) and many others.

A first call TV & Film Session Guitarist, Aaron has worked for a laundry list of television shows such as 15 years with Fox’s “MAD TV,” Steven Seagal's “Half Past Dead 2,” “Super Dave Osborne”, “The Next Best Thing” (ABC), “The Mother Love Show,” (FOX) and “The Ben Stiller Show” (FOX).

In the fall of 2021, Blake Aaron became a music professor at the prestigious, Cal Baptist University.

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Will Donato, a 2-Time Billboard #1 Hit saxophonist, is one of contemporary jazz’s most dynamic performers, gifted with the ability to bond and connect with his audiences like no other.

A cancer survivor who truly celebrates each day and each person he meets, Will has headlined or shared the stage as a special guest at the Blue Note in New York City, The Seabreeze Jazz Festival, The Algarve Groove International Jazz Festival in Portugal, The Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival, Humphrey’s By The Bay, The Capital Jazz Cruise, and Rick Braun’s New Year’s Eve.

Will has performed with some of the best known musicians of the groove / smooth jazz genre, namely Al McKay of Earth Wind and Fire, Richard Elliot, Bruce Conte of Tower of Power, Steve Reid of The Rippingtons, Brian Simpson, Steve Oliver, Gregg Karukas and Nick Colionne. He has worked in the pop music genre as well - most notably with Gerald Levert, Wynonna Judd, Toni Childs, and superstar Richard Marx. His music can be heard on the number one contemporary jazz legacy hit from Steve Oliver, “High Noon” as well as on the soundtracks from several movie scores including Thelma and Louise, The Wedding Planner, Under the Boardwalk, and No Man’s Land.

His May 2022 radio single “GOOD ON YOU” was a Billboard #1 hit and a previous single release “INFINITE SOUL” has over 3.6 MILLION streams to date on Spotify alone and reached the coveted #1 spot on the Billboard smooth jazz airplay chart in 2019.

Will Donato was quoted by NewJazz.com as “A Must See Show!”

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