Smooth jazz saxophonist Everette Harp today, October 27, offers his ninth solo album, First Love, his third for the Shanachie record label and follow-up to 2007’s My Inspiration.

Harp says the CD is more of a traditional jazz album that he’s done before, which is why he titled the CD First Love. “Over the last year and a half,” he says, “the live playing I have done has been interlaced with some mainstream jazz gigs … in Europe and Southeast Asia, giving me the opoortunity to play with some incredible musicians in a variety of venues. All of which led me, inexorably, to this recording. With First Love I was given the opportunity to explore some of the elements of jazz that made me crave to learn more about this wonderful music.”

First Love is produced by George Duke and features original songs such as “Texas Groove,” “Soul Fries” and “Blossom.” Harp also covers George and Ira Gershwin’s “Our Love Is Here to Stay” and John Coltrane’s “Central Park West.”

Harp is currently on an extended overseas tour that continues through the end of the year, but will schedule shows in the U.S. for 2010.

(Smooth Jazz Network)

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