New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Continuing to harness the momentum of two Billboard top 5 and two top 10 singles from last year�s �Soul Stories� album, guitarist
Blake Aaron will preview his �Color and Passion� album by issuing the first single, �Summer Ride,� which goes for radio playlist adds on May 16. Four days prior, he will perform the vibrant electric guitar-driven vehicle during a live show recorded in
Sirius XM�s Washington, DC studios that will air on the national satellite radio broadcaster at a date soon to be announced.
Like the varied songbook that make �Soul Stories� a captivating listen, �Color and Passion,� Aaron�s sixth album scheduled for
September release on Innervision Records, will offer an assorted sound palate swirling imaginative hues of funk, R&B, soul, jazz, blues and Latin music.
Aaron wrote �Summer Ride� and expects to pen most of the material for the new collection.
��Color and Passion� is my funkiest and most emotional project to date,�
Aaron described. �It explores every end of the spectrum of �color and passion� in music - from the red fire of Latin music, to the deep purple grooves of American jazz, funk, R&B and soul to the cool blues of the most sensitive, emotional and intimate ballads. I can�t wait to share it with you this fall!�
Dialing in the show before the trek back east,
Aaron will play a sold-out concert at Southern California�s contemporary jazz hot spot Spaghettini near Los Angeles on Saturday night (May 7). The evening before the
Sirius XM concert, he�ll play a set in Hampton, Virginia on May 11 at a gig sponsored by local radio station WHOV-FM. On May 13,
Aaron will hit the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club stage with Phillip Doc
Martin in Maryland and perform on May 14 at a show presented by WVST-FM in Richmond, Virginia. Then it�s back to the studio to finish �Color and Passion.�
Aaron shall emerge for a June 17 concert at The Perfect Note in Birmingham, Alabama; June 18 at Atlanta�s St.
James Club where he will share the bill with soul-jazz trumpeter Joey Sommerville; and June 25 for a date at the King Center in Melbourne, Florida with Sommerville and saxophonist Warren Hill.
Along with his busy solo career,
Aaron juggles being a first-call session player, in-demand sideman, and songwriter and producer for other artists. He hosts the nationally syndicated radio show �Blake
Aaron Live with Tina Anderson.�
For more information, please visit www.BlakeAaron.com.
