Charlton Singleton - Date Night (2020) FLAC

Local jazz musician Charlton Singleton will release his first new studio album in seven years when Date Night is available July 3 on the Beehive label. It’s the first time Singleton, who helped propel Lowcountry band Ranky Tanky to a Grammy award, will enter the smooth jazz genre.

“The instrumentals just came to me in the last year or so usually while I was doing yard work,” Singleton said in a press release. The vocal tracks hearken back to when Singleton was a member of the popular local Charleston rock/ska band SKWZBXX in the 1990s. The new album includes four instrumental tracks and four songs with Singleton’s vocals. It’s produced by Calvin Baxter III, who also plays drums on the album.

Additional musicians contributing to the album include keyboardist Demetrius Doctor, guitarists Dave Grimm and Greg Loney, and bassist LaVonta Green. The new album’s first single, “Sea Breeze, was released on April 24, and has already been picked up by multiple terrestrial radio stations across the U.S., as well as SiriusXM Radio’s smooth jazz channel Watercolors (Ch. 66). The second single, “Sunrise,” was released on May 22. “Date Night” will be available starting July 3 on all digital music services, including Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify, Pandora, and Tidal.