Jim Adkins-guitars & programming, Greg Terry-Keyboards , Matthew Steele-Bass, Chris Mchugh-Drums, Bill McGee-Trumpet, Rosshan Monroe-Sax, Cham Laughlin-Additional keyboards, Eric Darken-percussion & Lee Covington-Strings and keyboards
Influences
Wes Montgomery, Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton, George Benson, Earl Klugh, Peter White, Jonathan Butler, Chuck Loeb, Norman Brown, Eric Clapton, Eric Johnson, and many many more!
Jim Adkins is an award winning songwriter/guitarist from the central Virginia area. He has won awards for his songwriting abilities in Smooth Jazz, Instrumental Composition and Inspirational/Gospel music over the years. His most notable was the 1999 BILLBOARD SONG CONTEST awards for the 2nd place in the Jazz category for the song "Wind Dancing" and was featured on the Billboard Annual Song Contest cd volume II. Wind Dancing was also selected out of more than 50,000 songs to be included on MP3s 103 of the Best Songs You've Never Heard Volume I which was distributed to over 250,000 music fans. He has also won eight awards in V.O.C.A.L. (Virginia Organization of Composers and Lyricist).
To date Jim has five recordings to his credit. He has thousands of sales across the U.S. and in other countries to include Spain, Switzerland, Great Britian, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan, Poland, Hungary, Austrailia, New Zealand, Korea, Indonesia, Portugal, Canada, Brazil, Belgium, Turkey, Denmark, Singapore and Germany.
In 1998 he released his first recording called "Just Chillin". It was a product of his award winning songs and some other new compositions. In 2000, Jim released his 2nd cd called "Straight Ahead" Featuring nine new compositions. The song "Watching You Smile" received an Honorable Mention in the Billboard Song Contest Making the top 500 out of ten thousand entries.
In the year 2001, Jim signed with Positive Music Records and recorded a new cd called "Turning Point". The cd was produced by smooth jazz staple Ken Navarro. It contained songs from his first two cd's and four new compositions. "Turning Point" offers a fresh contemporary sound using some of the top musicians in the genre and features Jim's diverse guitar playing. The cd was released in February of 2002 and yielded a top 40 hit on the Smooth Jazz charts with the song "Into The Storm".
The year 2004 marked the release of "License To Play". It was the first release on Clear Image Records. Clear Image was founded by Jim Adkins and will have all his cds in the Clear Image Catalog. The cd received lots of air around the country and received good reviews.
In June of 2008 Jim released " City Streets". The cd spent over 46 weeks on the smooth jazz indie charts, making it to number 21 ! Sales so far have been reported throughout the US, and in other countries. "City Streets" has also received great reveiws and articles from smoothjazz.com & smoothjazztherapy.com and has been featured in articles in Spain and Belgium.
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I am glad to announce the release of my debut CD called "Interro Island". This is my first solo project, which includes original tunes composed and arranged by me. I hope you will enjoy my work!
Thanks so much for the compliment Jim ... but I wish I played as well as you! You're a great songwriter too. :) By the way, did you notice we both have songs called Turning Point? lol. Keep in touch... xo ~C
Nice to meet you, great sound. I see you already know a very special friend of mine Dave Stevens. I am forwarding your page to another friend of mine I met only through my space. He calls himself jazz master but his name is Harold. He is another huge supporter and will love your sound. If he doesn't get to you first and you have a moment please take a moment to say hi to him and please tell him that I sent you. He is in my top friends. Stay in Touch!
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Hey Jim, what a pleasant suprise! Love hearing from you. I really like yor new CD cover, your songs are great! I Especially love 'After the rain' :) Everybody has a fave. I'm still writing, Guess I got the music in me too! LOL! Glad to see things are going so well for you. Tell Karen hello for me. Let's stay in touch. Frances
Jim, wishing you and your family the best at this time of the year. We pray that your holidays will be blessed with loving family, good friends, and musical fellowship. We are celebrating the 1st Christmas of our 1st Grandbaby Girl. Ms. Amani De'ajah... Isn't she lovely! GOD Bless...
