Gerald Albright GFunk Tribute to James Brown featuring Leon Timbo

Schedule

Thu, 02 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm to Sun, 05 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

2033 6th Ave, Seattle, WA, United States, Washington 98121 | Seattle, WA

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Dimitriou's Jazz Alley presents 8x Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist Gerald Albright for four nights and six shows with special guest Leon Timbo. Band members are: Gerald Albright (woodwinds) Collin Clauson (keys), Rick Watford (guitar) Leon Timbo (guitar and vocals), James “JRob” Roberson (drums) and AJ Brown (bass). Show times Thursday and Sunday at 7:30pm. Show times Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm and 9:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm Thursday and 5:30pm Friday - Sunday. This show is supported by KNKX.
ARTIST INFO
Because Gerald Albright’s musical muse has taken him to so many fascinating locales along the contemporary R&B/urban jazz spectrum, he’s joyfully defied easy categorizations. Whether he’s playing contemporary or straight-ahead jazz, Gerald Albright stands in a class by himself.
Albright released G-Stream in October of 2020, a composition of three action-packed songs Albright chose to specifically enhance the listening experience of his audience who have witnessed a historical change-of-life, due to the pandemic and multi-layered global polarity. All three of the songs from Albright's EP, G-Stream achieved number 1 Billboard status.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Albright was already an accomplished saxophonist by the time he enrolled at the University of Redlands, but he switched to bass after he saw Louis Johnson in concert. A few months after graduating from college, he joined jazz pianist/R&B singer Patrice Rushen, who was in the process of forming her own band. Later, when the bassist left in the middle of a tour, Albright replaced him and finished the tour on bass guitar. Playing both sax and bass, he became the consummate session and touring musician in the 80s, working with everyone from Anita Baker, Ray Parker, Jr., Atlantic Starr, The Temptations and Maurice White to Les McCann, Teena Marie, the Winans and Whitney Houston.
He launched his solo career in the infancy of what became the smooth jazz format, with Just Between Us in 1987 and has been a core part of the genre with chart-topping albums, countless radio hits and as a member of many all star tours, including Guitars & Saxes and Groovin’ For Grover. In the late 90s, he fronted a big band for and toured with pop star Phil Collins and did a dual recording with vocal great Will Downing called Pleasures of the Night. Between his last two Grammy-nominated solo albums Pushing The Envelope (2010) and Slam Dunk (2014), he enjoyed hit collaborations with two huge hits – 24/7 with guitarist Norman Brown and Summer Horns by Dave Koz and Friends (including Mindi Abair and Richard Elliot), which were also Grammy-nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Albums. He toured with Brown and Summer Horns, and most recently has been on the road with South Africa gospel/jazz singer and guitarist Jonathan Butler. Albright’s other albums whose titles perfectly reflect their flow include Smooth (1994), Groovology (2002), Kickin’ It Up (2004) and Sax for Stax (2008).
Because Albright’s musical muse has taken him to so many fascinating locales along the contemporary R&B/urban jazz spectrum, he’s joyfully defied easy categorizations.
“Top to bottom,” Albright says, “Whether in concert, listening to my music over the radio or CD player, I always want my listeners to be taken on a musical journey with different textures, rhythms, chord progressions and moods.”
Leon Timbo’s country-ish sound incorporates equal measures of vintage soul, gospel, folk, R&B, and even modern blues making for a unique experience that some have described as “transparent soul.”
Some write music as a creative release. Others feel compelled to perform. For country-soul singer-songwriter Leon Timbo, music is used as a form of growth and healing. The son of parents who are both church pastors, Timbo was raised in Jacksonville, Florida. He began pursuing music seriously at 16 and by age twenty, he began playing the guitar and performing in clubs, inspired by artists Bill Withers, James Taylor, and Tim Miner. He was discovered by R&B superstar Tyrese Gibson, who asked the budding musician to open for him at the Dallas House of Blues. Tyrese introduced Timbo to GRAMMY-winning vocalist and producer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, who signed Timbo to a record deal and took him on the road, cementing Timbo’s rapidly expanding career as one of the major young artists reclaiming American roots music’s association with the Black experience in the 21st century.
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