Due out on 24 Mar '23 are various DJ Spen & Gary Hudgins
mixes of J.D.'s Time Machine feat. Cleveland P. Jones"Kiss Of Freedom". It originally came out on Izipho Soul in 2021 and a
few more mixes
were later released .
The radio edit is now available on Spotify although I've not
been able to find it anywhere else other than on
Traxsource.
Click on image below for link to where you can buy from.
Cleveland P. Jones last appeared on these pages as a
featured artist on Khari Cabral & JIVA "Show Me The Way" in Mar 2022.
He is currently working on his first jazz album and has decided to
share three tracks on an EP he's titled "Come Closer To ME". The first is his rendition of a Hoagy Carmichael classic, "Skylark", which just oozes class!
The second track is an original song, "Come Closer To Me", written by Jones
The third and final track is "Here's To Life" penned by Artie Butler and Phyllis Molinary. Curiously I was only
listening again to
Dione Bullard's recent version yesterday (included below) and what a performance.
Cleveland reflects that he was inspired by the song after listening to
Shirley Horn's original on a cassette when he was 19.
I came across a recent video at City Winery, Atlanta (his home town) of a
performance of Leon Russell's "A Song For You" (included below) so I wonder if that will be included on his
forthcoming album?
Also I noticed from his facebook that Cleveland is celebrating his birthday
today, so happy birthday Cleveland.
Note that whilst the sound files are available on Spotify and appear on a
couple of DSP's I can't find it for sale on Amazon and it only seems to be
for sale on
Bandcamp.
Currently riding high (#2) in latest UK Soul chart as featured artist on
J.D.'s Time Machine's 'Kiss Of Freedom', here's a new solo release from
Cleveland P. Jones released 12 Feb 2020. This is a smooth and mellow
neo soul ballad/stepper.
UPDATE:
Someone has left a comment informing me that this was in fact released in 2016 on an album by Kejam titled 'Majek' featuring Cleveland Jones. It would appear that the album was only released in Japan on P-Vine. It was also due to feature on an EP called 'Rebirth' but I can find no trace of the EP so perhaps it was never issued? Whether the current release is a reissue or a re-recording I don't known. There is a 'snippet' of the Kejam release on SoundCloud which sounds very similar.
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