The highly anticipated follow-up to INFINITA, featuring Grammy winners Charlie Bisharat and Horacio Hernandez, and Grammy-nominees Flora Purim and Kayhan Kalhor. Read about the making of ESPIRITO and listen to song samples here.
"Moonlight Samba" debuted on radio back in January, 2010 as the #1 Most Added song on stations monitored by SmoothJazz.com and Nielsen. The single and album were highlighted here on Broadcast Architecture's industry standard Jazz Network website.
"Moonlight Samba" has been added to Sirius-XM "Watercolors" channel 71. Send in a request for the song here.
The songs "Return to Rio," "Havana Heat", "Blue Mountain Bolero", "Rumba del Sol" and "Footprints" off ESPIRITO were featured on National Public Radio's popular show Morning Edition. Playlists are here, here, and here.
The latest video "Santa Ana Wind" has been broadcast to millions of viewers on television music channels across the United States and Canada...watch it here. Guitar tablature is also available. Purchase a high quality download of the video on iTunes. The audio track alone can also be purchased on iTunes or Amazon MP3.
By popular demand, the audio portion of “The Fire Cadenza” video is now available for purchase as a single on iTunes and Amazon MP3. Over 4 million views across the web to date. The video was posted by fans on countless websites and was featured on the homepage of Youtube, where it continues to attract thousands of viewers per day from around the world. Purchase the guitar tablature here.
Top 50 Radio Single: "In Motion" -- the 3rd radio single from Lawson's album INFINITA -- spent 30 weeks in a row on the SmoothJazz.com top 50 Indie Chart. The single is a special edit of the track "In Motion", featuring guest saxophonist Praful, whose mega-hit song "Sigh" has been a recurrent favorite on jazz radio for years.
The radio single “Infinita” from the album INFINITA received radioplay across the U.S. for months on end, landing on the major Billboard top 30 Smooth Jazz Chart in August, 2008. The single also rose on the MediaBase top 50 smooth jazz chart, the R&R indicator chart (15 weeks in a row), the top 50 Smoothjazz.com chart and the top 10 SmoothJazz.com Indie Chart (8 months in a row). The single was also highlighted in Radio & Records Magazine.
The radio single “Cafe Jobim” from the album INFINITA landed on the top 30 Radio & Records indicator chart, the top 50 Smoothjazz.com chart, and top 10 SmoothJazz.com Indie Chart. “Cafe Jobim” was ranked one of the ‘Best of 2008′ by the Sounds of Brazil nationally syndicated radio show.
Music by Lawson Rollins is included on the recent compilation album Gypsy Spice – Best of New Flamenco alongside such bestselling artists as Ottmar Liebert, Jesse Cook, Benise, Armik, Govi, Shahin & Sepehr, and Young & Rollins.
INFINITA reached #2 on the Amazon.com Flamenco chart,
#2 on Barnes and Noble’s Flamenco chart, #2 on the Emusic World chart, and #14 on the iTunes World Music chart.
