This week's special guest is Bkake Aaron. Guitarist Blake Aaron has taken the Contemporary Jazz world by storm recently with a
total of FIVE #1 Billboard Singles as a solo artist! Plus three #1 Billboard Singles as a producer and two #1 Billboard Singles as a featured artist, including the #1 Billboard Song of the Year for 2022.Following in the footsteps of the smash album Color and Passion, which had THREE #1
Billboard singles and one #1 Song of the Year on the Radiowave charts for the year 2019, Blake Aaron’s upcoming album release, Love and Rhythm rockets out of the gate with another TWO #1 Billboard singles, “Feels So Right,” and “Dreamland.” Now a Billboard #1 producer himself as well as artist with his self-produced, silky-smooth “Fall for You,” as well as producing Billboard #1 songs for other artists, Aaron also teams up with hit producers Darren Rahn for the #1 Billboard single, “Groovers and Shakers,” the
#1 for all of 2019 Radiowave single, “Drive,” with Greg Manning for the #1 Billboard single “Feels So Right,” and with fellow hitmaker Adam Hawley for TWO #1 Billboard singles, “Sunday Strut,” featuring saxophonist Najee, and the most recent #1 hit, “Dreamland.” “Aaron’s guitar playing is stellar” - The Jazz World Named “a genius on the guitar” by the Los Angeles Times, “Aaron’s guitar playing is stellar” by The Jazz World, ”Take your pick-he’s a good picker!" by Jazz Weekly, “..one of the greatest treasures as a guitarist,” by Najee, and "a guitar player's guitarist" by Critical Blast,
Blake Aaron launched his career as an L.A. studio musician/sideman and
has recorded and/ or performed with artists such as Philip Bailey (Earth Wind and Fire), Sheila E., Frank Stallone, The Alan Parsons Project, Bobby Womack and Carlos Santana (Womack-Save the Children), The Gap Band, Lakeside, Dynasty, Little Anthony, Ronnie Laws, Keiko Matsui, Najee, Warren Hill, Bill Champlin (Chicago), Ellis Hall (Tower of Power) and many others.
A first call TV & Film Session Guitarist, Aaron has worked for a laundry list of television shows such as 15 years with Fox’s “MAD TV,” Steven Seagal's “Half Past Dead 2,” “Super Dave Osborne”, “The Next Best Thing” (ABC), “The Mother Love Show,” (FOX) and “The Ben Stiller Show” (FOX).
In the fall of 2021, Blake Aaron became a music professor at the prestigious, Cal Baptist
University.