Impulse Records: Music, Message and The Moment. Label: Impulse. Format: 2CD Set. The roots of Impulse! can be traced to 1955 when the American Broadcasting Company decided the time was right to diversify into the record business. History was made on June ‘14th’ 1955 when  Am-Par Record Corporation was incorporated and Samuel H. Clark became the company’s first president. He oversaw the birth of what would become one of the biggest record companies in America. Soon, the nascent label was producing and releasing records, licensing masters from independent record producers and purchasin ..read more

JOHN CAREY-FAMILY. It seems hardly a month goes by without John or Gina Carey releasing a new single or album. So far this year, Gina has released three albums, Love Letters, Love Letters 2 and Live, Love and Laugh. John seems to be determined to keep up with the pace set by Gina, by releasing his second album of 2012. This is Family, which will be released on Gico Music. Family is the followup to Smooth, Soulful and Funky, which was released on St. Valentine’s Day. Now just nine months later, the self-styled Urban Soul Guitarist releases Family. On Family, John a multi-instrumentalist, plays ..read more

GINA CAREY LIVE, LOVE AND LAUGH VOLUME 1 (LIVE). For any independent artist, trying to think of innovative ways of releasing music, isn’t easy. After all, major record companies have whole departments of strategists, whose job is to do just that. So, releasing music on a limited budget must be much harder. However, one artist whose pioneering a new way of releasing an album is Gina Carey. For here eighth album, Live, Love and Laugh, Gina’s decided to release the album in three volumes. This is perfectly suited to the three suites or themes  of music  that run through the twelve songs ..read more

JOHN CAREY-SMOOTH, SOULFUL AND FUNKY. It’s not often that a husband and wife both release new albums at the same time. This is what happened when John and Gina Carey both released new albums earlier in February 2012. While Gina released her beautiful, sixth album Love Letters, John Carey, The Urban Soul Guitarist released his new album Smooth, Soulful and Funky. Like Gina Carey’s album Love Letters, John’s album Smooth, Soulful and Funky is released on the couple’s GiCo Music. It’s a collection of nine tracks from Chicago born jazz guitarist John. However, John Carey is much more than a guitar ..read more