Carol Albert

CONTEMPORARY JAZZ
PIANIST & VOCALIST

Atlanta, GA

 

In a genre where an artist’s success is generally measured by radio airplay spins and Billboard chart positions, pianist/composer Carol Albert’s recent Hit Album “Magic Mirror” has 3 Top 5 Billboard Hits to date. Billboard #1 “Paradigm Shift”, “Magic Mirror” and “Fire & Water” gained national recognition in the Contemporary Jazz world since the release of the Album. Other Top 5 singles “Perfect Sunday” and “Stronger Now” – from her 2020 full length album Stronger Now - have crossed over to massive numbers in a metric usually touted by mainstream pop stars. Currently, “Perfect Sunday” has over 7.9 Million streams on Spotify and “Stronger Now” has over 2.9 Million. The album’s other radio hits include the Top 5 hit “Femme Flight,” which featured flutist Ragan Whiteside and saxophonist Magdalena Chovancova and earned Carol a new legion of fans via extensive airplay on SiriusXM’s Watercolors.

Since establishing herself as smooth jazz mainstay in 2017, one of Carol’s unique trademarks has been writing and recording songs that both chronicle and express her own emotions and thoughtfully reflect upon the world around her.

Before breaking through to the greatest commercial success of her career with a high energy twist on the classic “Mas Que Nada” (from her Fly Away Butterfly album) in 2017, the classically trained pianist, composer and producer received an Emmy nomination for her acclaimed work composing for television and released a multitude of recordings whose vibes range from singer/songwriter to solo piano and new age.

While she could never have predicted it when she released her debut album Love in Your Eyes back in 1992, the well-traveled Atlanta based artist’s elegant, free flowing piano style and passion for R&B grooves and global rhythms is a perfect fit for the urban contemporary vibe at the foundation of today’s smooth jazz. Her other big radio hits include the Top 5 single “Fly Away Butterfly,” the Latin tinged Top Ten track “Sun’s Out,” “Chasing Waterfalls” and her first Billboard charting single “One Way.” “Sun’s Out” stayed on the chart for 23 weeks and hit #1 on the Recurrent Chart. The track also reached the pole position on the Mediabase Smooth AC, Radiowave and GrooveJazz charts and hit #2 on the Smooth Jazz Top 20.

Over the years, Carol has served as a staff accompanist for the Georgia State University Music Department (her alma mater), Agnes Scott College and the Atlanta Ballet, and provided entertainment for trade shows, corporations, organizations and public venues. Years before playing smooth jazz-oriented music with her band at such U.S. venues and events as Myron’s Cabaret Jazz at the Smith Center, Las Vegas, Brass City Jazz Fest in Connecticut, Jazz in the Park in Birmingham, AL and City Winery and St. James Live in Atlanta, Carol performed regularly in Europe – including Germany, France, England, Ireland, Spain and a three month tour of Sweden. She also played on the Brittania Cruise Line out of France. Starting with her early pop/rock club dates out of college, Carol says she has “gigged basically every week of my life.”

“I feel fortunate to enjoy a musician’s lifestyle over the years while also being a wife and mom,” says Carol. “One of the things I’ve loved most about my success as a smooth jazz artist is the opportunity to make meaningful connections with the fans who tell me how much my music means to them. It’s been very rewarding to see how my music has resonated, and the radio airplay and appreciation from listeners are a wonderful confirmation that I’m on a strong creative path and achieving my goals on this very personal quest.”

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS

VENUE & FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

Smith Center / Myron's Cabaret Jazz, Las Vegas, NV (4-12-2019)
Venkmans 12/9/2018 (Atlanta)
St. James Live (Atlanta)
City Winery (Atlanta - 2x)
Suwanee Jazz Fest
Chattahoochee Sunday Night at the River Series - Piedmont Park , Atlanta GA
Velvet Note, Atlanta, GA
The Bitter End, New York, NY
Kulaks Woodshed, Los Angeles, CA
Botanical Gardens , Atlanta
PianoWorks, Concert Series
Cafe 290
Brass City Music Festival, Waterford, CT
Concert in the Square Series, Decatur GA
JWMarriott Atlanta
Four Seasons Atlanta
Ritz Carlton Atlanta
German House Hospitality
Kawaii Center Concert Series , Greenville ,SC
Roland Keyboard Colossus, Louisville, KY
Fox Theatre
Brittania Cruise Ship, France, England, Ireland, Spain
Frankfurt , Germany , Park Hotel
Sweden 3 Tours - Fernbank Science Center
Decatur - Jazz In The Park, Birmingham, AL

PRESS

Billboard #1 HIT Single with “Paradigm Shift”

#1 Hit “Magic Mirror” with 3 weeks MediaBase #1, #2 Billboard, 3 weeks #1 Smooth Jazz Network 7 weeks SmoothJazz.com, 7 weeks RadioWave/GrooveJazz

Billboard Top 5 singles with “Fire & Water”, “Femme Flight”, “Perfect Sunday” and “Stronger Now”

“Perfect Sunday” has over 8.6 Million streams on Spotify and “Stronger Now” has over 3 M.

Nominated for 2022 Best Artist Smooth Jazz Network

3 Singles from "Fly Away Butterfly” have Charted On Billboard.

"Fly Away Butterfly" Year End 2018 Top Billboard Hits , Top hits of Smooth jazz Top 20 2018 and Top 20 of Groove jazz Chart 2018.

Fly Away Butterfly peaked at #5 Billboard Smooth Jazz Chart (18 weeks) 2018, Smooth Jazz Network Top 20, #1 Groove Music (3 weeks), #1 RadioWave Smooth Jazz Chart (3 weeks), #20 SmoothJazz.com Top 50 Album Chart.

“Chasing Waterfalls“ Top 10 2018 Year End Smooth Jazz Top 20 Chart, 2018 Groove Jazz Chart , Billboard Smooth Jazz Airplay for 10 weeks in the Top 20 Hits.

“Mas Que Nada” still a favorite on Sirius XM Radio Watercolors

Released 9 Albums and headlined on tours worldwide.

Georgia Composer of the Year 2018.

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