The composer, songwriter and performer
of smooth jazz known as Douglas Lambert has released his latest
official album, “There's Still Hope.” It contains nine original
numbers for an approximate total listening time of 40 minutes. The
record has been proudly published as an independent release without
the direction of the corporate music industry. Smooth, suave, and
bearing the same classiness that first popularized his “Say It
Again” EP, “There's Still Hope” is a work of adult contemporary
music which will appeal to a broad spectrum of music fans.
Douglas Lambert cites as main artistic
influences such legends as Barry White, Donny Hathaway, Stevie
Wonder, Thom Bell, Horace Silver, Ramsey Lewis, and George Duke. If
this dignified roster doesn't give a round idea of what to expect
from “There's Still Hope” and the rest of Lambert's repertoire,
“There's Still Hope” may be considered an entry-level crash
course in the music of the above. Music fans can expect
synth-powered, funk-filled and soulful R&B stylizing, with
contemporary additions which will surprise and delight fans of the
genre.
Asked to describe the main themes of
his new album, Lambert writes simply, “Never give up. There's Still
Hope regardless of your situation or circumstance.”
Such surprises include but are not
limited to the Carlos Santana-esque electric guitar which takes
center stage on Track 5, “Hope Interlude, Island Love,” a
disco-flavored dance number complete with a prominent, poppy bass
line (Track 2, “Carnival”), and mashups such as “Space Cadet,”
Track 6, which seamlessly blend two or more categories of music
(funk, adult contemporary).
Nevertheless, while “There's Still
Hope” falls squarely in the jazz genre when taken as a whole, it
often
hits the adult contemporary register
with the most punch, as seen in its closing one-two combo, “Nobody
Can Love Me Like You” and “Nice and Easy,” Tracks 8 and 9
respectively. As a result of the musical tour Douglas Lambert's
“There's Still Hope” provides, his latest LP is likely to appeal
to fans of R&B, cool jazz, smooth jazz, contemporary jazz, adult
contemporary music, and much more.
“There's Still Hope” by Douglas
Lambert is available from over 600 quality digital music retailers
online worldwide now. Get in early, listeners.
-S. McCauley
Lead Press Release Writer
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