The ARTizen Music Group, a new smooth jazz record label co-created by trumpeter Rick Braun and saxophonist Richard Elliot, has signed its first artist: saxophonist Paul Weimer. You may know him better by his stage name, Shilts, and by his association with the British smooth jazz jam band Down to the Bone.Shilts, who was raised in the U.K. but last year moved to Southern California, has just about finished a new CD, which Braun is producing and smooth jazz guitarist Chris Standring is performing on. Shilts’ first solo CD, See What Happens, was released in 2001 by the Higher Octave record label.
Braun and Elliot co-founded ARTizen last year along with industry executives Al Evers and Steve Chapman. After releasing Braun’s Sessions: Volume 1, the label released its first CD of all-new material on June 28 with Elliot’s Metro Blue. Braun followed that up in October with Yours Truly.
Shilts’ debut CD with ARTizen will be available this spring.
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