Mahalo for visiting my site, 2022 has been a busy year . Celebrating a new grandson Michael Allan . Now I have three Rio James and Olivia June . You ll see them at my shows ! Glad to be out playing again . Lot of concert appearances slated . Please check out my tour page . I just complete a new single produced and written by Grammy Award winning Paul Brown . Paul’s been a great horned over the years and you’ll love this funky new song . Exciting release news to follow ! Two more concerts at SouthCoast winery left . Ill be featured on September 11th ! for more info visit https://www.southcoastwinery.com/concerts. Performing with the great bassist composer Brian Bromberg in September . His music is off the hook ! Excited to be playing with the Honolulu Symphony in November . That will be a classic concert featuring songs from my Magenta Orchestra record and playing some of David Benoit’s classic symphony arrangements . Another season of Grooves Jazz at The Westin slated for winter 2022 and spring 2023 . Dates and artists announced soon. Lastly we will be back with Live from La Costa next summer ! Mahalo all for all your love and support
Michael Paulo Plays on the New Miles Davis release Rubberband!
Michael Paulo Plays on the New Miles Davis release Rubberband!
In 1986 Michael was asked by Miles to do a session with Miles . Subsequently the tracks were never released until now. The record released on September 6th 2019 reached the number one spot on the Billboard Jazz charts it’s first week out.
Hang Time Single release #1 most added !
New Single Release!
Michael Paulo – “Hang Time”
Hearing that one of my all-time favorite contemporary jazz sax players, Michael Paulo, has signed with one of today’s most renowned and innovative indie labels (Woodward Avenue Records) is heartwarming and creatively exciting at the same time. Having toured and played with everyone from Al Jarreau, James Ingram and Bobby Caldwell to Peter White and Rick Braun, he has complemented a solid multi-decade solo discography with an incredible career as the ultimate contemporary jazz/R&B sideman. He’s also the visionary live event producer who started the popular, long running Temecula Wine and Music Festival, which has supported military veterans and organizations like the Shriner’s Hospital for Children over the past few decades. On a personal note, the night I met Michael backstage at a Jarreau concert at the Greek Theatre, he gave me an LP copy of his MCA solo debut album One Passion – and it remains one of my all-time favorite genre albums, paving the way for the urban/smooth jazz sounds to come.
Not surprisingly, the saxophonist’s Woodward Avenue debut single, the delightfully bluesy, coolly strutting, playfully soulful and snazzily funky “Hang Time,” sounds like an instant hit, full of fresh and spirited energy and bursting with the kind of optimistic fun we need going into a new year. For his first official solo release in almost a decade, Paulo’s in the best hands possible, with labelmates Shane Theriot (Terry-O) and two-time Grammy winner Paul Brown composing a killer tune, Brown producing and mixing and Theriot, quite incredibly, pulling quadruple duty on keys, bass, guitars and drums.
Theriot’s hypnotic, old-school soul-jazz keys create a seductive palette for Paulo to sashay in with his immediately identifiable, ultra-melodic sax melody. The two create a perfect complementary synergy, with the saxophonist taking us on a soaring, ultimately mid-tempo funk adventure (complete with sizzling horn textures) and Theriot grounding everything in old school soul-jazz cool with those infectious darker-edged keys and a hipster bass and drum groove. The most joyous moments are when Paulo, after building a laid-back sensual tension in the verses, busts loose on the whimsical hook, backed by Theriot’s gospel-like synth tones. It’s a deeply emotional release that will help all listeners destress and refocus on the dreams to come in 2023. Sometimes listeners don’t notice the brightness created by the mastering process, but Paulo’s served well here by the sonic skills of another master saxman, Euge Groove.
Like many instrumental artists, Paulo has done his share of label hopping, from MCA to GRP and then his own 90’s label, Noteworthy, and finally releasing indie recordings under his own name and Apaulo Records (the case with two of his best 2000s releases – Beautiful and My Heart and Soul). It’s thrilling on many levels that he is affiliated at last with a label like Woodward Avenue that is worthy of his incredible artistry and will give him the best opportunity for widespread success. Here’s hoping that “Hang Time” – truly one of the most dynamic Paulo tracks ever – is just the start of the next and greatest phase of Michael Paulo’s three-and-a-half-decade solo career!
– Jonathan Widran
Michael Paulo – Sax, Shane Theriot – Keys, Bass, Guitars, Drums, Paul Brown – Percussion Arranged by Shane Theriot, Produced & Mixed by Paul Brown, Mastered by Euge Groove Written by Shane Theriot & Paul Brown, Executive Producer – Mark Nordman, Radio Promotion – Dave Kunert
Smooth Jazz Review /Art Jackson
Check out this link for nice write up http://www.magzter.com/p/Smooth-Jazz
My New CD Beautiful Day is out!
Hi All, It’s finally here. Please go and check it out . Now at CDBaby.com
Featuring, Paul Brown, David Benoit , Peter White, Brian Simpson, Kimo Cornwell, Paul Jackson Jr. and more
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/michaelpaulo3?SourceCode=HEARNOW
Got my yanigasawa new and improved custom tenor sax yesterday. I absolutely love it ! Best tenor I ever had. Great full tone. Effortless to blow and intonation unreal . It’s like going from a compact car to a high end sports car. Mahalo to my friend Kanzaki and the folks at yanigasawa . Made with high quality in Japan and not China ! If you are thinking about a high quality instrument. Buy this and be done with it the rest of your life . My only regret is I wish I had this thirty years ago
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Michael Paulo uses Rico select Jazz Reeds .He has been using Rico Products since he began playing the saxophone at age 15. He plays Beechler no. 7 metal mouth pieces .Michael Paulo plays Yanigasawa Custom Pink Gold Alto, the new Custom Tenor Pink Gold WO37 series and Curved Soprano .
Got my yanigasawa new and improved custom tenor sax . I absolutely love it ! Best tenor I ever had. Great full tone. Effortless to blow and intonation unreal . It’s like going from a compact car to a high end sports car. Mahalo to my friend Kanzaki and the folks at yanigasawa . Made with high quality in Japan and not China ! If you are thinking about a high quality instrument. Buy this and be done with it the rest of your life . My only regret is I wish I had this thirty years ago
Michael Paulo is available for producing and recording sessions. Please fill out the request form and specify what you would need. Number of songs to be recorded and what the project is for. Session rates will be based on this information. All that is required is a stereo mix of your track sent on a CD rom in aiff or sounddesigner files. Specify the tempo, for example 98bpm and make sure your track starts on beat 1. I will overdub a minimum of 2 takes and send it back to you via the same format. Your engineer can then mix it into your song. I will allow one re take if you are not satisfied.Rate is a flat rate inclusive of artist fee, studio and engineer. Mail CD’s to 23811 Washington Ave., Suite. C110-123, Murrieta,Ca. 92562. Thankyou