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Airborne Anthology - Randall Parrish – Jazz Review
“After decades of making inspiring contemporary jazz to critical acclaim the esteemed ensemble has decided now is the perfect time to take a look back and showcase some of the quality music that has characterized the group’s recording existence.

With two brand new tunes destined to become classic numbers Airborne makes it evident that the group is presently at the height of their musical flight and offers great optimism for the future. Airborne is recognized for continually bringing imagination, positive energy, and deep passion to their jazz compositions.

With Back in the Dayz – Airborne Anthology the past of Airborne is explored and celebrated with the still to be forged future greatly anticipated. The group’s extended harmonious shared recording experience has bred this lofty level of congruous cohesion. If their glorious precedent is any indication; then grand inspirational thought-provoking musical vistas filled with hope lie ahead for us all. Good music is timeless.”


Airborne Anthology - Brian Soergel
“You’d expect a contemporary jazz group that is called “musical peacemakers” to have a happy, upbeat sound. You get that with this veteran band, but as this anthology shows, you also get top-quality musicianship and very creative compositions and arrangements with heft and plenty of sway"

Airborne Anthology - Chris Mann
“Everything about the bright, brassy contemporary jazz music of Airborne with its strong melody and ripples of percussion suggests that their outlook is a very positive, optimistic one and they aim to be as inclusive as possible. This wonderful sound of Airborne reflects many tastes and you will find things to like, whether it’s soul, Latin, reggae, world or some quite complex jazz”.

Airborne Anthology - Smooth & Soul – HBH
Back In The Dayz - Airborne Anthology is an amazing collection of America's super group, Airborne. Contemporary jazz isn't dead.”

Interview by Sandy Shore - Smoothjazz.com
How long has the band been playing together?

Airborne was formed in the early 1980’s. Our first musical release was in 1988. The band celebrates years of recordings, jazz festivals, concerts, clubs, gigs, and the whole ups and downs of being musicians. We can honestly say that the years have been very rewarding to us. To live a life of music is a wonderful experience and a precious gift. We feel honored and blessed as we continue to perform and record and look toward the future with a smile.

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Airborne is moving forward with Back in the Dayz
Airborne, the multi-cultural contemporary jazz group from New Haven, CT USA is moving forward with their 8th CD “Back in the Dayz - Airborne Anthology”.

This project is a wonderful collection of new material and edited and re-mastered compositions from other Airborne CD’s.

It is a testimony to jazz artists of integrity, whose inspiration and imagination capture your thoughts with music with a cause. Joyful Jazz with a Message!


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New Horizons CD Review - The Smooth Jazz Ride
We so often need music in our busy and usually stressful days (especially in these stressful times) to help smooth out the rough edges. Airborne, the proclaimed “Musical Peacemakers” of contemporary jazz make it all so easy with their new release, New Horizons, a peaceful, breezy, reflective, and vibrant production indeed. As much new age, R&B, funk, spiritual, and world as it is contemporary jazz, it is a carefully woven fabric of tantalizing sound to make those crazy moments in our day a little less crazy.

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New Horizons – Jazz Review - Dr. Ana Isabel Ordonez
Airborne appears again in the spotlight with their recent, New Horizons, an original patchwork of jazz, classic pop forms and world music. Its language is constructed, revealing some bright moments.
Airborne, the well known multi-cultural contemporary jazz group from New Haven, Connecticut, USA has the ability to do it all well.

New Horizons takes the listener into soundscapes through lyrical ways exploring the individual player's idiosyncrasies which in exchange creates color schemes available to all listeners.


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Smooth Jazz Therapy - Airborne - New Horizons
Smooth Jazz Therapy first became acquainted with the band Airborne through the excellent 2004 CD ‘Heavy Vibes’. At the time I commented that this cool Connecticut based collective was re-igniting genuine old school jazz fusion in a way that was part 5th Dimension, part Weather Report, and part Ambrosia with just a hint of Tower Of Power thrown in for good measure. Subsequently, the band’s reputation was enhanced by the 2007 CD ‘Turbulence’ and a year later ‘Winds of Change’ hit the streets. Now Airborne is back with the equally good ‘New Horizons’.

It signals a welcome return to the soulful energy, vocal R & B arrangements and Latin grooves from which the band’s reputation was originally built.


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New Horizons - Randall Parrish – JazzReview.com
The new release from the notable contemporary jazz group Airborne is titled New Horizons and features smooth jazz guitar, keyboards, and reed instruments in conjunction with passionate Latin infused grooves to craft a CD cool as an island breeze.

Airborne has long been referred to as the “Musical Peacemakers” of contemporary jazz. On New Horizons, the group’s 7th release on Tilt Records since their inception in the late 1980’s, their peaceful theme is abundantly present on many of their songs.

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New Horizons CD - Review - Smoothjazz.com
At this point in world history, the concept of maintaining a positive outlook and vibe isn’t just a nice idea… it’s critical to our survival as a species.

The multi-cultural contemporary jazz group Airborne not only shares this philosophy, but has also imbued every one of their albums with it.

NEW HORIZONS, their latest project, contains a dozen brilliantly crafted examples of their trademark jazz/island passion/urban emotion music... and once again shows Airborne to be the pre-eminent voice for positive change for the jazz community.

They truly are the “musical peacemakers” of contemporary (Smooth Jazz). If you’re already a fan, getting a copy of NEW HORIZONS won’t require a second thought. If Airborne is new to you, acquiring the project will not only raise your positivity as you listen, but will also support the work of creative individuals who really get what being a citizen of this world is all about! ~SCOTT O'BRIEN

New Horizons CD Review - HBH - Smooth & Soul
New Haven based contemporary jazz group Airborne are founded by Gregory Borino (guitars, vocals), Thomas Sansone (sax, flute, vocals), Thomas Borino (piano, keyboards, organ, vocals). They constantly released albums since a long time. Take Off in 1990, followed by Across The Sky (1995), Lifetones (1999), Heavy Vibes (2004), Turbulence (2007), Winds of Change (200 and this year New Horizons.

Their albums have often a motto and a special impetus. For example the group demands with Winds of Change common ground, solidarity and the willingness to make the world better. The new album New Horizons follows the same concept: "The music of Airborne reminds and encourages us that we can create a new world of peace. One world of people searching and waiting for a sunrise of happiness that's just over the new horizons. "

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Press Release for Airborne “New Horizons” CD
Airborne the “Musical Peacemakers” of Contemporary Jazz are rising higher and soaring on “New Horizons” with their new and 7th CD to date. The warm, yet cool atmosphere of this wonderful project takes you on a magical and musical journey to a new day filled with joy and hope.

Its Smooth Jazz theme rides on the successful inspiration of their last Chart Topping CD “Winds of Change”. Groove music with depth and character that is captivating and entrancing. Joyful Jazz with a Message!

The CD also expands the artistic World Fusion motif of their 2007 release of Turbulence and regenerates the soulful energy of their 2004 release of Heavy Vibes with its Latin grooves and R&B vocal arrangements. And for the first time Airborne has released a CD covering two great R&B Classics. Inserting the Airborne sound to “Sunny” written by Bobby Hebb and “God Bless the Child” by the amazing Billie Holiday. Giving this a unique pleasure for fans that know in Airborne concerts there is always crowd pleasing R&B vocal tunes mixed with the Airborne jazz compositions that rock the house.

In ancient times the word Horizons meant across the world. The music of Airborne reminds and encourages us that we can create a new world of peace. One world of people searching and waiting for a sunrise of happiness that is just over the new horizons. The emotion and passion of Airborne is a musical healer who keeps us closer to the light of truth and opens are senses to hear and feel that glorious message of love and compassion.

Communicating that all things are possible if we Live, Laugh and Love. To Live our life to fullest sharing goodness to others. To Laugh we can sustain our hopes through times of trouble. With Love we can do great things.

Combining inspiring compositions of genuine substance, performed by world class jazz musicians, Airborne is a living musical brotherhood with a trademark jazz sound of island passion and urban emotion. The “New Horizons” CD is a pleasant offering to jazz lovers who reach out for new expressions. Airborne gives one hope that contemporary jazz is still alive.

Smooth and Cool, yet Soulful and Hot, a great CD from start to finish. Real jazz by real jazz artists of integrity, whose inspiration and imagination capture your thoughts with music with a cause. Airborne shines a smile of heart and good feeling people really need from listening to music. Airborne captures this beautiful feeling and makes it overflow on each tune of this awesome and outstanding CD. Joyful jazz with an uplifting message of Hope, Peace, and Love!
Remember we are One World! One People searching for “New Horizons” ###


Smooth Jazz Theary - Denis Poole - Winds of Change CD - Review
The brand new album from New Haven, CT based Airborne is entitled ‘Winds Of Change’ and much of the publicity surrounding it makes clear that the title, compositions, and even the emotion of the project was inspired by the bands concern for world events.

The implicit assertion, irrespective of faith, race, color or wealth, that together we can make this earth a better place is beyond dispute and in articulating this harmonious message Airborne has delivered nine wonderfully uplifting tunes which can be fairly described as some of the best smooth jazz to be heard this year.



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Susan Frances - Jazz Review - Winds of Change CD
Airborne always finds a new way to put the listener on an aircraft and fly them over exquisite landscapes that feel aurally entrancing and sensually relaxing. The group’s sixth CD Winds Of Change delivers an titillating carpet ride for listeners that reaches exciting heights and coasts elegantly along languid clarion channels.

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Akbar Nour - Smooth Jazz Now - Turbulence CD Review
Airborne is quite a unique smooth jazz ensemble. The New Haven band was formed in the late eighties and has since then crossed the "turbulences" of our agitated times. Airborne is more than a jazz ensemble. It is a group of dedicated musicians, who share the same cause and philosophy: bringing peace, love and tolerance to our world through their music. They have stuck to this belief since their beginning and have opened up their music to multi-culturalism.

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Jonathan Widran - All Music Guide – Turbulence CD Review
One has to admire a veteran band whose liner notes denote their desire to make this a more peaceful world through music, yet call their latest disc Turbulence. The title is more a clever wordplay with the name of the multi-cultural, Connecticut based contemporary jazz ensemble that is hugely popular in New England but has also made inroads into the hearts of smooth jazz fans across the world over the years.

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John Luciano - ContemporaryJazz.com - Turbulence CD
Airborne is the type of group and Turbulence is the type of recording that represents what I love about contemporary jazz it’s like unwrapping an unexpected gift and discovering, for the first time, something you like but didn’t know existed.

It never ceases to amaze and at the same time perplex me the sheer talent and originality of these jazz artists. This is good stuff - check it out!

Wes Gillespie - JazzNet247 Radio - Heavy Vibes Review
Airborne are a multi-instrumental and multi-facet jazz band from New Haven, Connecticut, USA and remind me of the great jazz acts from the 80's and 90's such as Surface Noise, Rodney Franklin, Azymuth, Paul Hardcastle,Mezzoforte, Shakatak and some their vocal harmonies resemble the great George Duke and Tom Browne. Not surprising as the band was formed in the late 1980's when this style was particularly en vogue.

'Heavy Vibes' is the band's fourth CD release and is sure to follow on the success of the previous three which enjoyed airplay on many Jazz Radio Stations throughout the US and abroad and received critical acclaim in JazzTimes, Jazziz, Downbeat and Billboard to name but a few.

The album is a collection of smooth jazz, Latin jazz and soulful urban vocals sung by the lovely Elizabeth Delliger and also rotated by saxman Thomas Sansone and Thomas Borino, the latter contribute the spine of the set with some creative piano and keyboard solos from Borino and Kirk Whalum / Najee style sax from Sansone.

The beauty about this album is that it stretches out beyond the jazz idiom and crosses over to the current urban soul and dance charts but the intoxicating driving sounds are also reminiscent of the early Spyro Gyra, Fattburger, Mezzoforte and Shakatak with Gregory Borino's guitars exchanging front and centre stage with the keyboards of Thomas Borino on the opening drive time cut entitled 'I See'. This is just one of the styles which demands attention on this fine recipe for today's urban vocal / jazz formulae.

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American Soldiers fighting in the Forgotten War “Afghanistan” reach out for support to hear one of America’s greatest artforms “Jazz”
The contemporary jazz group “Airborne “received an email from a
American soldier fighting in Afghanistan, CSM Corey Woodard. It read:
I am currently deployed to Afghanistan with my battalion, consisting of Soldiers, Airmen, and Marines.

Many of my troops and I are avid smooth jazz listeners. However, we find it extremely difficult to get smooth jazz CDs here in such a remote and austere environment.

I would like to know if you or anyone you know would be willing to donate a few smooth jazz CDs to us during our deployment here in Afghanistan. Such a gift would greatly enhance my troops’ morale and give them a reminder of the good life that they all enjoyed back at home.

We would greatly appreciate anything you could send to make this deployment better. You may send any items to the following address and I will ensure they are equally shared and distributed:

Thanks in advance. CSM Corey Woodard JLC-MCB APO AE 09354

330th Trans Bn (MC) Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan

Airborne is sending a few copies of each of their 5 CD’s and is asking fellow jazz
musicians to help support our troops. Airborne Jazz, a multi-cultural
contemporary jazz band that hails from New Haven, CT, USA. The members of
the band have toured across the USA, Europe, and Japan. # # # #