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Jay Graydon and Randy Goodrum have worked together for many years and having written songs like e.g. GIVE IT UP for DeBarge, HAUNTING ME for Dave Grusin, PLEASURE OVER PAIN and HEART'S HORIZON for Al Jarrreau, LOST WITHOUT HER LOVE for El DeBarge and the super hit WHO'S HOLDING DONNA NOW for DeBarge, they realized they should become a band, to write more songs together and release on their own record label. So they formed the supergroup JaR and released their first album SCENE 29 in 2008, which received rave reviews for the superb songs and stellar production. As you can see from this pic below (Garden Rake Studios December 2011), Jay and Randy are currently hard at work on the 2nd JaR album and every day is bringing us closer to the release date.

Randy: We have several songs that are just a tidy-up from being finished. Some that are, actually, finished. We, however have a few wonderful tracks to tackle. We're on it, but we're obviously not speed demons.

Jay: I have been working on other projects and we will post details as things unfold. The way JaR works is Randy and I had written all of the songs a while back and we record all of the tracks first with most of the overdubs. We are now at the stage in which we sing the songs, play solos, and do some other overdubs. Since we are doing other projects as well, it is taking time to finish JaR and we work on it when we have the time.

Jay and Randy composing at Garden Rake
Studios December 2011

Photo © Denise Marie Luko.

While waiting for the new album, you will surely find Inside Musicast's interviews with these two music master minds very interesting and entertaining...

... or enjoy this video featuring the wonderful power ballad
- WORLDS APART - from the first album SCENE 29.

Video featuring the title song - SCENE 29
from the current album - SCENE 29 - with a film noir influenced lyric.

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You have just unlocked the door to another dimension, unveiling an astonishing world of creativity - the NEXT STEP in the quest for intelligent, urgent, innovative, no-compromise music.

You have entered into a wondrous land of amazing new sounds and fresh ideas by lifelong friends and exceptionally gifted colleagues in music - Jay Graydon and Randy Goodrum - working together as the supergroup - JaR. Their first album SCENE 29 is available from CD BABY as a physical album, a full album mp3 download or a digital download of individual songs. Read all the RAVE REVIEWS this album is getting from happy music loving buyers all over the planet!

This video features the song - THE CABO CAD

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The JaR song ESQUIRE from the album SCENE 29 is featured in the Summer 2009 issue of JAZZIZ in the ON DISC section.

JaR - SCENE 29 is also featured on a new 4 CD compilation - CALIFORNIA GROOVE - with 75 of the best songs within Westcoast AOR music over 40 years, released exclusively for France in April (Virgin Megastores plus a few others) where the song CURE KIT is chosen to represent the NEW style of classic Westcoast AOR, taking the genre to the next level, or as Bill Champlin says about the SCENE 29 songs:

"That's what I've been calling "The New Music". I consider JaR to be the flagship
of that "Movement". - Bill Champlin

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Live interview podcast with Jay Graydon at Inside MusiCast!!!

Check out Jay and Randy working on their hit song
YOUR HEARTBREAK!!!

"You guys have taken the torch from Steely Dan
and have run miles and miles ahead" - Steve Lukather

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"JaR's new album, Scene 29, is gonna' be one of those albums that you can gauge your "I'm Hip" quotient by how much earlier you've heard it than your friends. I think this album will eventually be considered the flagship of the new music. The new music is what is created after the "suits" gave up on the "biz". Anyway, I've known these guys for years and I had no idea that this stuff was in there. Well, now it's out here and we're all happy about it. Man, it's rare to play an album and still have your heart racing an hour later, especially someone else's album. Good work, guys." - Bill Champlin

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"This is what Steely Dan wants to be!" - claskew1

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This is the stuff a formal contemporary jazz student should be studying (and probably does!).
- Ronald Jackson of smoothvibes.com.

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"I use to compare everything recorded in the past 20 years to Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly". Now there's a new industry standard for music, and it's called ... "JaR"! Jay's astounding guitar wizardry and Randy's stunning keyboard prowess is the crux of a project filled with brilliant complex harmonic compositions, ear candy smooth vocal performances, and thick transparent sounding mixes.
This is soon to be "legendary" recording!" - Tom Hemby

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"I just got my copy of Scene 29 and absolutely love it! Great music is hard to find, great music well produced is even harder, great music produced well by great people is rare indeed. I am happy to be able to tell the world - all the good music isn’t gone, it’s just moved to the JaRZONE!" - Mike Hedden www.danleysoundlabs.com

Enjoy your stay in the JaRZone!

Latest update January 4, 2012.

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