Paula Atherton, Smooth jazz Artist
Born in New York
Genre: Smooth Jazz
“My philosophy as a woman and as a musician is to always do my best and to enjoy what I do – process and all – every day.” Saxophonist/Singer/Songwriter Paula Atherton is proving herself to be quite the connoisseur of groove with her third CD, Enjoy the Ride. With its nine songs all recently composed specifically for the release, it is an exhilarating and focused set conceived to rock listeners’ worlds. New York-based Atherton moves from hard-driving instrumentals like “Turn it Up” and the JBs-esque “Catch Me If You Can” to the wistful soulful vocals “I Won’t Give Up” and “Can’t Get You Out of My Mind” – all in a CD that flies by in the blink of a playfully batted eyelash.
Paula began playing with bands in all of these styles and eventually began leading one of her own – usually backed by a rhythm quartet but occasionally with percussion, a trumpet and background vocalists on the sweetest gigs.
Paula’s actual first CD “Let Me Inside Your Love”, a compilation of several different kinds of things she’d been recording in her early years, was completed in 2001 but not promoted until 2004. She considers her second release, “Groove with Me”, to be her official first CD. The very first song she wrote for that album was the catchy funky groove “Whenever You Come Around.” “My bass player and friend Schuyler Deale produced that track,” Paula remembers. “He said it felt like Sly & the Family Stone. He laid the groundwork for most of the album which gave me a fresh direction to go in.”
Biographical information courtesy of L.A. Sax; for more reading see link below
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