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Kirk Whalum Everything Is Everything<br />
paired with LaZarre Pinot Noir Santa Maria<br />
Valley, Bien Nacido Vineyard, 2007<br />
LAZARRE PINOT NOIR<br />
Santa Maria Valley,<br />
Bien Nacido Vineyard, 2007<br />
Over a couple of decades, versatile<br />
winemaker Adam LaZarre has<br />
worked his experienced, winestained<br />
hands in a diversity<br />
of successes, from the wildly<br />
popular Rex Goliath originating at Hahn Estates<br />
in Monterey County, to the new Paso Robles<br />
boutique winery, Villa San-Juliette, owned by the<br />
two executive producers of “American Idol.”<br />
At last producing his own limited production<br />
brand, LaZarre’s talent for making outstanding<br />
wines shines in a Santa Barbara County Pinot<br />
Blanc, a Central Coast Pinot Noir, and this<br />
mouthwatering Santa Maria Valley Pinot Noir<br />
made from four select rows of vines in the most<br />
respected pinot noir vineyard in the Central<br />
Coast, yielding just 72 cases. Notch another<br />
relax...enjoy!<br />
success for this veteran. LazarreWines.com<br />
JACKIEM JOYNER Jackiem Joyner<br />
The rising urban jazz<br />
saxman waited ‘til his<br />
third release to create a<br />
self-titled project, most<br />
likely because as dynamic<br />
and popular as Babysoul<br />
and Lil’ Man Soul are,<br />
this diverse, funked out<br />
collection best captures<br />
his musical heart. He<br />
blazes a trail towards the<br />
future of funk with slick,<br />
hard-edged percussion-driven tracks like “The Reunion”<br />
and the rock-influenced “Push,” winks towards the glorious<br />
R&B past on a spirited discofied take on Michael Jackson’s<br />
“Off The Wall,” and takes a balmy breath on the charming,<br />
Latin-tinged “Dance With Me.” Joyner has also developed<br />
into one of the genre’s most engaging romantic balladeers.<br />
JackiemJoyner.com (ARTISTRY/MACK AVENUE) 2010<br />
KIRK WHALUM<br />
Everything Is Everything<br />
With the release<br />
of this gloriously<br />
soulful, multifaceted<br />
tribute<br />
to the late great<br />
singer/songwriter<br />
Donny Hathaway,<br />
one of the most<br />
versatile saxmen<br />
in contemporary<br />
urban jazz<br />
completes a unique trilogy of powerful R&B tribute<br />
recordings—a series which began with the charttopping<br />
For You (1998) and continued with Kirk<br />
Whalum Performs The Babyface Songbook (2005).<br />
Applying equal touches of jazz, funk, gospel,<br />
heartfelt pop and blues influences, the eight-time<br />
Grammy ® nominee mines the depths of Hathaway’s<br />
rich catalog (beyond the familiar hit singles) with the<br />
help of the singer’s daughter Lalah and luminaries<br />
Musiq Soulchild, Robert Randolph, Rick Braun, and<br />
Jeff Golub. KirkWhalum.com<br />
(RENDEZVOUS/MACK AVENUE) 2010<br />
Jackiem Joyner Jackiem Joyner paired with<br />
Justin Reserve Tempranillo, Paso Robles, 2007<br />
JUSTIN RESERVE<br />
TEMPRANILLO,<br />
Paso Robles, 2007<br />
The versatility of tempranillo, the thickskinned<br />
grape of red Spanish Rioja wine,<br />
allows for great flexibility both in food<br />
pairing and musical accompaniment.<br />
Justin Vineyards handpicked and sorted<br />
every cluster of their 2007 edition and<br />
then proceeded to extrude every bit<br />
of color, body and fragrance from the<br />
grapes throughout the whole winemaking<br />
process, from a 48-hour soaking in stainless<br />
steel tanks to secondary fermentation in<br />
new French oak. Enjoy it in all of its dark<br />
redness, earthy nose, and black cherry<br />
glory with zesty, flavorful dishes or funky,<br />
Latin rhythms. JustinWine.com<br />
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