Music

To order your CD's today please send a cheque or money order for 20$ to:
Sounds Like This Productions
246 Osler St. Toronto ON. Canada
M6N 2Z1

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Listen to selected tracks off the new CD
1 The Game Of Love
2 Love At All
3 The Longest Day Of The Year
4 The Honey Tree

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Jake Wilkinson Quintet presents
The Game of Love: featuring Michelle Willis
A stunning new CD  of jazz love songs

Jake Wilkinson (an award-winning trumpeter, conductor, composer, lyricist, producer and arranger) is happy to announce the release of his latest project The Game of Love. This is the culmination of thirty years of playing and fifteen years of writing and crafting songs: “The inspiration for writing this collection of songs came from trying to marry a contemporary experience within an older Tin Pan Alley style.”
    
Wilkinson has assembled a swinging rhythm section of pianist Mark Eisenman (Chet Baker, Randy Brecker), drummer Joel Haynes (Seamus Blake, Harry Allen, Gary Smulyan) and the fine young bassist Jon Meyer. Singer Michelle Willis, “a remarkably brilliant sensation in the Canadian jazz scene,” (Andrew Scott, CODA Magazine) garners frequent comparisons to both Nancy Wilson and Norah Jones. Added to all of this, of course, is the leader Jake Wilkinson (John Hicks, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass, Liberty Silver, Norman Marshall Villeneuve, Don Thompson, Bob Mover) who the Globe and Mail champions as “the finest soloist to emerge from the latest generation of jazz musicians in Toronto.” The string section, which Wilkinson conducted and arranged, performs with grace and poise, adding yet another dimension to this exciting new jazz CD release.

The Game of Love is 100% Canadian Content having been composed, arranged and produced by the gifted Jake Wilkinson. This project of new songs strikes a unique balance between old-fashioned values and modern sensibilities.

‘Count Your Lucky Stars’ (Track #3) just became a finalist in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition.

The Toronto Star calls The Game Of Love “a winning set of love-centered tunes” and hails Jake’s songwriting as “outstanding.”

Mr. Wilkinson is currently doing interviews, clinics and concerts in support of the release.

The Jake Wilkinson Quintet presents:
The Game of Love
Featuring Michelle Willis

For media reservations and more information: jake@jakewilkinson.com


Jake's 2003 release This Time is available by sending a cheque or money order for 20$ to:
Sounds Like This Productions
246 Osler St. Toronto ON. Canada
M6N 2Z1

or go to CD Baby

1 Colton Raine
2 For Miles and Miles
3 Roti Mama