Legacy

Personel

Tony Hightower – Vocals (All) / Drums – Track #4 / Percussion – Tracks #2 – #5 – #9 Kenny Banks, Jr. – Piano Kevin Smith – Upright Bass Henry Connerway, III – Drums Rafa Pereira – Percussion – Track #4 – “Rendezvous” Derek Scott – Guitar – Track #4 – “Rendezvous” Mike Burton – Sax solo – Track #1 – “Can’t Hide Love” Terence Harper – Trumpet – Track 8 – “The Gift” Melvin Jones – Trumpet solo – “The Doll” The Good Time Brass Band – Horns (All) The David Davidson Quartet – Strings Background Vocals – “Can’t Hide Love” – “Love and Happiness” – Jason Sylvain – Zaria Hall / “Rendezvous” – Ron “Hollywood” Jackson / “The Doll” – Darren Lorenzo – Dell Phillips

Track Listing

Can’t Hide Love The Doll Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To You Rendezvous All To The Good Plain Jane Need You The Gift Love and Happiness Here’s To Life

Artist Biography

Singer/Songwriter Tony Hightower is taking up the mantle to be a bridge that ushers R&B audiences into Jazz…Real Jazz. With years of experience as a musical performer and actor with familial roots that place him firmly within the music’s firmament, Atlanta-native Hightower is still just getting started on this benevolent turn in his journey. And he is bringing a lot of young people with him.

His sophomore project, LEGACY, finds Hightower exploring Jazz vocal stylings from a dazzling prism of angles. “I didn’t have a choice about doing this music,” Hightower confesses. “My mother, Theresa Hightower, lived her life onstage.