About Us

City Sketches, Inc., a Music, Radio and Venue Production company, exists to benefit and to create employment for Musicians, Studios, Broadcasters, and Engineers in a live performance, studio-based or radio-based environment on a very modest level.

Our lifetime artistic goal is to further raise the awareness of the under-appreciated genre of Jazz music weaving various sub-genres (Urban, Latin, Brazilian and Gospel) in the mix which we feel are fresh approaches to the genre, and hopefully benefits the listener. Simultaneously, our business objective is to increase the sales of jazz music through CD's, Digital Downloads, which includes ringtones, and live Music venue events.

We are inspired by our long-term missions and 5-year goals:

* To develop "NewUrbanJazz" into a unique brand of radio programming

beginning with a 2-hour program, but branching into commercial radio with

the sole intent of exposing the music audience to a unique and broader

blend of non-compartmentalized jazz with minimum repitition.

* To educate aspiring artists (both young and old) on the pitfalls of the

music business, and to teach them business etiquette, publishing, digital

download processes, understanding basic music contract law, etc.

* To develop and create new live music venues for aspiring and veteran

artists in order to always develop their talents on a professional level and

create an environment for unique synergies.

* To further produce recordings written and produced by Bob Baldwin as

well provide production services for instrumentalists and vocalists.

Arrangement and Production credits include George Benson, Grover

Washington, Jr., Pieces of a Dream, Will Downing and Marion

Meadows, to name a few.

* 3-5 year plan includes establishing business relationships in TV and Film

in an effort to develop more effective placement of publishing and

production products in those venues.

We are always inspired to make a difference in these areas, and the values used to develop these processes include strong elements of integrity, spiritual faith, and respect for all people at all times.

CSI currently is the home of:

Funky Onion Publishing, which includes the Bob Baldwin catalog,

The NewUrbanJazz Lounge, which is the radio syndication component.

City Sketches, Inc., is also the home of some masters produced and

owned/co-owned by Bob Baldwin, including:

Welcome to the Games - 1996

Brazil Chill - 2004

BobBaldwin.com - 2000

Memoirs from The Hudson DVD - 2007

The Sanctioned Bootleg - 2007

State of Mind - 1994

All In a Day's Work - 2005