Dee Brown - Remembering You (2018)

“Hey Baby, have a good day…” The lilting female voice that launches “Hey Baby,” the funky, infectious lead single from dee Brown’s new full length Innervision Records album 'Remembering You', belongs to Shaunia Edwards, an extraordinary woman whose life the Detroit based guitarist celebrates via 11 vibrant, emotionally resonant tracks reflecting different aspects and treasured moments of their beautiful season together before her transition to heaven in February 2016.

The title track “Remembering You,” is a lush soaring ballad that, as the ideal coda to the album, allows Brown to make one final burst of emotion with his core band, the song’s co-writers Valdez Brantley (piano, keyboards, programming) and soprano saxophonist Dezie McCullers, Jr. and drummer Ron Otis, famed for his work with Aretha Franklin, Earl Klugh and Kem. Their powerful studio camaraderie also infuses the high energy Brantley produced tracks, “Hey Baby, “Pop The Question,” “I Want You Too” (featuring Lady Gaga’s musical director Kern Brantley on bass) and “So Much.” Renowned urban jazz flutist Althea Rene (sister of McCullers) pairs perfectly with Brown to create a breezy, whimsical stroll through “Our Summer,” while renowned keyboardist Bob Baldwin co-wrote and creates a hypnotic duality with Brown on the playful, briskly rolling “I Will.” Brown partnered with another Detroit area jazz/R&B great, artist, composer and producer Nate Harasim, on another of 'Remembering You’s emotional high points, the mystical, soul jazz flavored ballad “Beauty Within.”

'Remembering You' is dee Brown’s first major release since his 2014 album (also on Innervision Records) 'Brown Sugar Honey-Coated Love,' whose title and concept were foundationally inspired by Proverbs 27:7: “A satisfied soul loathes the honey comb, but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.” The project’s second single “Natural Love” received extensive airplay and hit the Top 15 on the Groove Jazz Top 30 chart. The Motor City native has kept up a steady flow of live and festival performances locally and nationally since emerging onto the national contemporary urban jazz scene with 'No Time to Waste' in 2007. Valdez and Kern Brantley have played key collaborative roles in helping Brown develop his one of a kind vibe since working together on his 2009 release 'A Little Elbowroom.'