PERFORMANCE VERSATILITY : From the Main Stage to Supporting Performances, Smooth Jazz Charting, Multi-Instrumentalist D.S. Wilson is available for Bookings worldwide!
INSTRUMENT(S): Saxophones, Piano/Keyboards
COLLEAGUES : Adam Hawley, Two-time Grammy Winner Mel Brown, Eric Valentine, Carnell Harrell, Grammy-Nominated T.J. Morris, Steve Oliver, Jeff Carruthers, Chris Miskel, Lamar Jones, Walter English, Cullen Bogan, Meg Thomas, Marvin Shields, Jr., Neal Chapman, Grammy-Nominated John Custer, IMDb Winner Fran Dyer
PERFORMANCES :
• Dave Koz Jazz Cruise 2023
• Fresh Coast Jazz Festival - Milwaukee, WI
• Prairie Arts Festival - Schaumberg, IL
• The Promontory - Chicago, IL
• Epiphany - Chicago, IL
• Siren Song Winery - Lake Chelan, WA
• NC Battle of the Bands - Raleigh, NC
• North Carolina State Fair - Raleigh, NC
• NXNE - Toronto, ON
• Chicago Auto Show - Chicago, IL
• Buddy Guy’s Legends - Chicago, IL
• The Tin Roof - Raleigh, NC
• Chief O’Neill’s - Chicago, IL
• Copper Fox - Geneva, IL
• FoxFire, - Geneva, IL
• Colletti’s - Chicago, IL
• Preservation - Geneva, IL
• The Wine Exchange - St. Charles, IL
• Geneva Wine Cellar - Geneva, IL
SOCIAL FOLLOWERS :
• Active Email – 5000+
• FaceBook - 1900+
• Jango.com – 1330+
• LinkedIn – 6560+
• Spotify – 10,000 Monthly Listeners
• Instagram - 230+
• YouTube - 130+
• ReverbNation - 52
• BandsInTown - 75+
• Twitter - 33+
NOTEWORTHY :
• 30-50 Annual performances as a solo Smooth Jazz artist
• Scalable performances from full band to solo artist with backing tracks
• Performance times up to 4 Hours in duration
• Hundreds of past performances
• Awarded scholarship to Berklee School of Music, Boston, MA
• Finalist on 2022 Dave Koz Cruise Talent Competition
• Artist has released 7 albums (4 Rock, 3 Solo Smooth Jazz)
• Top 100 Charting on SmoothJazz.com, Mediabase and RadioWave (Best Top 25)
• Multiple Top 100 listings on SmoothJazzNetwork.com and Top 50 on Radio Airplay Experts
• Over one million song/video streams since 2019
"Sharing his long-in-the-making musical success story so that other talented dreamers may follow his bold lead, Chicago-based saxophonist/keyboardist D.S. Wilson explains that in his 20s, he had a chance to go to the Berklee College of Music but ended up working for IBM. Several decades later, he’s making a vibrant splash in Contemporary Jazz, consistently charting in the Top 100 (Best - Top 25) with his acclaimed album “Skyline” produced by hit-maker Adam Hawley. Wilson fuses his robust melodic horn excitement with the sly sensuality and jazzy improvisational cool of his piano. With 40-50 annual performances and buoyed by the success of “Skyline”, Wilson is currently working on songs for an upcoming fourth Contemporary Jazz album, his eighth album overall." ~Jonathan Widran
