A mix between smooth jazz, rhythm and blues, and pop music If you like the sound of Richard Elliot, Kim Waters, or Euge Groove, you'll love this CD.

10 MP3 Songs in this album (38:09) !
Related styles: JAZZ: Smooth Jazz, JAZZ: Mainstream Jazz

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Details:
Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians by Lewis Porter
Young, Richard Wellington Wan, saxophonist, composer, arranger, producer, and recording engineer: born Kingston Jamaica August 26, 1971.

Richard started taking piano lessons when he was ten. He took piano lessons for one year. Two years later he joined the Jr. High School Band at Franklin, Jr. High in Tampa, FL. He played the baritone horn at Franklin, Jr. High and then one year later started playing the trumpet at Horace Mann, Jr. High under the direction of Leroy Flemmings, who had played with trumpeter, the late Miles Davis as well as James Brown, Otis Redding, and the Army Band.

Richard quickly advanced on trumpet and in 1989 just five years later, auditioned to join one of the twelve Marine Corps Bands as a trumpeter. After passing the audition, he proceeded to the Armed Forces School of Music in Norfolk, VA. He played trumpet for approximately three years in the Marine Corps band. While moving to his 2nd duty station at 29 Palms, CA, he switched to the euphonium and played the euphonium for the remainder of his enlistment. Richard has traveled throughout the United States, Hawaii, Cuba and South America while serving in the Marine Corps Bands of Albany, GA and 29 Palms, CA. as a trumpet and euphonium player.

After receiving an honorable discharge in 1993, Richard attended College for a Sacred Music Major. He took up the saxophone and later changed his major to Music Education. While in college, he was asked to write music for a Promise Keepers convention by the conventionâs director of bands. He wrote and arranged over sixty pages of music for the band, which was composed of several local bands. He also began writing pop music and sold his first pop song, âKeep the Fire Burningâ to singer Dan Diaz while he was in college. He assisted in the recording studio by playing keyboard and trumpet. It was during these formative years that Richard became interested in Smooth Jazz and began writing more instrumental music.

In 1998 after graduating from college, Richard received a BA in Music Education K-12 and joined a group called the Celebrant Singers. He toured from coast to coast in the summer of 1998. That fall season he taught science at Lakeland Highlands Middle School in Lakeland, FL and played with various bands including Rare Form, Milt and Friends (Wilber Milton was a former member of the James Brown Band) and the Playmates. In 1998, he began working as a recording engineer and studio musician under the direction of Tom Bartlett and recorded his first full Disk of original music in which he played all the instruments including tenor and alto sax, trumpet, valve trombone, keyboard, keyboard instrumentation, percussion, and vocals. Richard played benefit concerts and donated time teaching music clinics and private lessons in the community.

In 2001, Richard moved to Colorado Springs, CO to continue working part time with Tom Bartlett as a recording engineer and music assistant at a local church. He worked as a recording engineer part time while teaching science at Carmel Middle School. In Colorado Springs Richard traded studio time with musician and song writer Jeff Lathrop for the construction of a recording studio, which Richard named Saxamental Records âWhere Music Comes to Life.â During this time, Richard wrote three Smooth Jazz songs, which were aired on four commercial radio stations and received some of the highest ratings possible. After accomplishing this task, he started a publishing company named Future Side Productions through ASCAP (American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers) and also became a writer member with ASCAP. Richard is also included in the Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians by Lewis Porter.

In 2002 Richard had music solicited by Bartlett Entertainment (Tom Bartlettâs brother in Las Vegas, Nevada) for music and film. Two songs were sent to Julia Robertâs production company and home, âBeauty Queenâ and âWhat I Feel for You.â In 2002 he also began a business in conjunction with Jamz Web Productions, writing and producing personal audio web commercials for businesses on the Internet. During this time, Richard also wrote a jazz song called "Mr. President Man" for President George W. Bush.

In 2005 Richard moved to Daytona Beach, Fl. He currently teaches Band at David C. Hinson Senior Middle School and also works as a song writer, producer, arranger, recording engineer, studio musician, and performing musician. He has recently performed at the Bank and Blues club and Dirty Harryâs Pub for the Bayou Boil in Daytona Beach, Fl, John D. Rockefellerâs residence now called The Casements in Ormond Beach, Fl, and several other locations throughout Florida.

Some of his latest projects were writing, producing, recording, and engineering the theme song for Ocean East resort club in Ormond Beach, Fl (www.oceaneast.com), working with Bobby Hendricks, the original lead singer from the Drifters, and working as a producer, arranger, and engineer on one of Eddie Snyderâs songs called Mississippi. Eddie Snyder has written music for Frank Sinatra and other greats. One of his most famous songs was Strangers in the Night.

Recordings:
Serena (1999); All My Love (2000); For a Lifetime of Love (2001); Beauty Queen (2001); What I Feel For You (2001); Sending All My Love (2001); If God Made (2003); All Things (2003); Different Kind of Love (2005); The Colors of My World (2007); My Journey On (2008); Carlita (2008); and Such a Beautiful Friend (2008)

Radio broadcasts:
New Music Weekly (2002), BDS (Billboard 2002), FMQB (FM Quarterback 2002), and R&R Radio (Radio and Records 2002).

Websites/Contact
www.futuresideonline.com www.myspace.com/richardyoung email:info@futuresideonline.com (386) 290-9909