Jay Graydon Releases 2 More Albums!

Jay Graydon - twice Grammy awarded and 12 times nominated Los Angeles top songwriter, recording artist, guitarist, producer, arranger, engineer, and more, has now released 2 more albums on his own label Sonic Thrust Records. STRCD-003 which is the much sought after PLANET 3 featuring JAY GRAYDON - MUSIC FROM THE PLANET with a never before released PLANET 3 song - DREAMERS. STRCD-004 RAKE AND THE SURFTONES - SURFERS DRIVE WOODIES - a genuine surf music album flirting with the 60s (Ventures, Dick Dale type of thing).

Jay Graydon - twice Grammy awarded and 12 times nominated Los Angeles top songwriter, recording artist, guitarist, producer, arranger, engineer, and more, has now released 2 more albums on his own label Sonic Thrust Records.

STRCD-003 which is the much sought after PLANET 3 featuring JAY GRAYDON - MUSIC FROM THE PLANET with a never before released PLANET 3 song - DREAMERS. This album has power ballads mixed with tough 80s synth rock, in the spirit of Toto, Chicago and the like.

STRCD-004 RAKE AND THE SURFTONES - SURFERS DRIVE WOODIES - a genuine surf music album flirting with the 60s (Ventures, Dick Dale type of thing), which Jay recorded for a studio test with many musician friends and studio legends and mostly for fun. Check out www.jaygraydon.com for more info.

MORE EXTENSIVE INFO ON JAY GRAYDON:
The official Jay Graydon web site is at www.jaygraydon.com and these below are the current albums on SONIC THRUST RECORDS:

STRCD-001 Jay Graydon - BEBOP

Jay released a straight-ahead jazz album last Fall called BEBOP. The BEBOP album is filled with NEW classy instrumental straight-ahead bebop jazz played by top-notch musicians (Brandon Fields - sax, Dave Weckl - drums, Dave Carpenter - bass, Bill Cantos - piano and Jay Graydon - guitar) and is highly praised by jazz authorities.

Sound samples here... http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jaygraydon01

STRCD-002 Jay Graydon - AIRPLAY FOR THE PLANET

Highlights:

STRCD-003 PLANET 3 featuring Jay Graydon - MUSIC FROM THE PLANET
with a previously unreleased PLANET 3 song called DREAMERS. The album is remastered by Jay and has new artwork and new liner notes with a picture of the PLANET 3 band (Jay Graydon, Clif Magness and Glen Ballard) on the inside. This album has been much requested over the years and has been very hard to find. All songs are written by the creative songwriters Jay Graydon, and his band partners Clif Magness and Glen Ballard. Jay, Clif and Glen are the musicians behind all the performances and instruments in all songs. The music style is adult contemporary pop with many strong melodies - power ballads mixed with tough 80s synth rock, in the spirit of Toto, Chicago and the like. The ballad "I Don't Want to Say Goodnight" was included on the soundtrack for the film "Navy Seals".

Sound samples at... http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/planet3

STRCD-004 RAKE and the Surftones - SURFERS DRIVE WOODIES
The Japanese version (18 tracks) and remastered by Jay. This is an album which will take you back to the sixties when the surf music waves were high. It is recorded in a surf style (Dick Dale, Ventures type of thing) with a host of the best studio musicians in the world, such as Dean Parks (Steely Dan), Steve Lukather (Toto), David Hungate (Toto), John Ferraro, Joseph Williams (Toto), Jason Scheff (Chicago) and many more, who are revisiting the music of their youth and the fun factor of this recording is shining through big time.

Sound samples at... http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/surftones

Should you be new to Jay Graydon you will find extensive information at www.jaygraydon.com and here below are some brief facts:
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Jay Graydon is an internationally renowned artist with many hits over the years. Among the Grammy nominations is e.g. the prestigious title Producer of the Year and also a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Recording. Jay Graydon has worked with literally everyone in the music biz as a record producer/songwriter/guitarist. He has produced several top artists, such as Air Supply, George Benson, Al Jarreau, DeBarge, El DeBarge, Sheena Easton, Art Garfunkel, Manhattan Transfer, Johnny Mathis, Patti LaBelle, Lou Rawls, Kenny Rogers and Dionne Warwick, just to name a few, and many of the more than 200 songs he has written are included on Gold and Platinum selling albums.

Jay's Grammy Awards are for co-writing - best rhythm & blues songs - AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE (1979 - a number 1 hit with Earth, Wind & Fire) and TURN YOUR LOVE AROUND (1982 - a number 1 hit with George Benson and also used these days sampled in new productions).

The Grammy Nominations are as follows

1979 Best Rhythm & Blues Song - AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE (WINNER!)
1979 Song Of The Year - AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE
1980 Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental - TWILIGHT ZONE/TWILIGHT TONE
1981 Album Of The Year - BREAKIN' AWAY
1981 Best Vocal Arrangement For Two Or More Voices - KAFKA
1982 Best Rhythm & Blues Song - TURN YOUR LOVE AROUND (WINNER!)
1983 Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals - MORNIN'
1983 Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals - STEP BY STEP
1983 Best Engineered Recording - JARREAU
1983 Producer Of The Year
1984 Best Album Of Original Score Written For A Motion Picture - GHOSTBUSTERS
1985 Best Album Of Original Score Written For A Motion Picture - ST ELMO'S FIRE

Since Jay Graydon is awarded and nominated in so many categories over the years he probably holds the record of being the most versatile nominee in Grammy history.

Among the many acknowledgements Jay Graydon has received over the years, N.A.R.A.S. - the Grammy board - once nominated him as Studio Guitarist of the Year. Jay was e.g. the soloist Grammy awarded (2001) Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan chose for the legendary guitar solo on PEG on the album Aja.

Jay Graydon is a living legend in the music industry and a name that equals music quality with a capital Q. As an artist Jay Graydon has recorded three pop albums over the years - AIRPLAY with David Foster, PLANET 3 and AIRPLAY FOR THE PLANET.

Jay Graydon is featured in a 7 pages long article with many pics from his studio in the December issue of the British leading magazine on recording techniques - Sound On Sound (they publish an international edition as well).
The article is also available online at http://www.sospubs.co.uk/sos/dec01/articles/graydon.asp

Jay's exquisite arrangement for solo guitar of STAR SPANGLED BANNER, which he skilfully performs on the BEBOP album, is featured on HOMELAND - a Limited Edition Compact Disc accompanying the Jan. 2002 issue of JAZZIZ Magazine, dedicated to the victims and families of the September 11th tragedy.

More info on Jay Graydon may be found on his official web site www.jaygraydon.com