J R Clark and Willie Styles have joined forces with Legendary Bass
Player and Alligator Records recording artist- Johnny B. Gayden from
"Albert Collins and the Ice Breakers" and Jerry "Bam Bam" Porter-drummer
who toured with Buddy Guy for 14 years, toured with Magic Slim and the
Teardrops, Ronnie Baker Brooks, and currently fresh off tour with The
James Cotton Band to put out a big sound of house rockin' blues, soul
and southern rock! Just about 7 months into this version of the group,
the guys are starting to click. Performing at several festivals like
South Bend Blues and Ribs festival at Coveleski Stadium, Kalamazoo Blues
Festival, and many regional venues in IN and MI. the guys are rollin'
and have just released their latest album titled "When It All Comes
Down". A high energy band with national talent that will put a smile on
your face and a groove in your step!
JR CLARK AND ALL STAR BLUES MOB
The celebrated Canadian soprano saxophonist is embracing voices again.
But these voices are of a slightly different sort. The Creole Choir of
Cuba is long gone to other things but Ms. Bunnett is back with an
exquisite new ensemble of vocalists and instrumentalists named
“Maqueque”, which means, as Ms. Bunnett’s short note on the CD sleeve
points out, “the spirit of a young girl, in the ancient Afro-Cuban
dialect.” Much of the stellar reputation of Canadian jazz and world music heroine
Jane Bunnett has been based on her passionate and adventurous
explorations of the treasure trove that is Cuban music. She returns to
the island with well-received new project Maqueque. This pairs the
veteran composer/bandleader/multi-instrumentalist with six talented
young female Cuban musicians and singers.Four-time JUNO Award winner, two-time Grammy nominee, and Officer of the
Order of Canada, soprano saxophonist/flautist Jane Bunnett has been
chosen as a finalist for the Ontario 2014 Premier’s Award for Excellence
in the Arts. The award, through Ontario’s Ministry of Tourism, Culture
and Sport, recognizes extraordinary achievements of the province’s
artists and arts organizations JANE BUNNETT AND MAQUEQUE
This record is a bruising and beautiful Rock n Roll record. It was produced by Kevin Salem and has Kevin Salem and Brian Fallon (of The Gaslight Anthem) playing electric guitar with me throughout. My best friend Brian Bequette is playing bass, and the amazing Joe Magistro is playing drums. More details and news very soon! Matthew Ryan releases his pure, honest and moving album Boxers today. Recorded last winter at Applehead Studios in Woodstock, NY with producer and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Salem, The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon on guitar, longtime collaborator Brian Bequette on bass, Joe Magistro (The Black Crowes, Rich Robinson) on drums, and of course, Ryan himself on vocals and guitars. “It was a beautiful brotherhood,” Ryan says of the recording process.The title track, “Boxers” immediately grabs you with its’ melody and the stellar production while “The First Heartbreak” tells a distressing story with upbeat musical backdrop. Boxers also tells tales of the working poor in “Suffer No More,” the callous culture of capitalists in “We Are Libertines,” and the two together in “Heaven’s Hill.”From the silvery burst of feedback that opens the record, to the dissolving vérité of the last notes of the final song, Ryan writes songs that make you think and delivers them with an emotion that makes you feel. I’m honored to have been a part of his newest record!” Says The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon. MATTHEW RYAN
On Good News Ronnie Earl is joined by The Broadcasters, his band of over
25 years, to create a mostly instrumental album of spellbinding
intensity and deep soul that will satisfy his growing legion of fans.
Earl’s eighth album for Stony Plain Records shows, once again, the deep
respect and knowledge he has for his peers and mentors. Along with a
majority of original tunes, he is honored to record “Change is Gonna
Come” by Sam Cooke, “Blues for Henry” co written with Hubert Sumlin, and
the Junior Wells composition “In the Wee Hours.” “Runnin’ In Peace,”
which closes the album, features suppliant lyrics written by Ilana Katz
Katz, who was near the finish line of the Boston Marathon when the first
bomb exploded on April 15, 2013.
A Brief History Legendary blues guitarist Ronnie Earl was born Ronald
Horvath, in Queens, New York, on March 10, 1953. He didn’t pick up his
first guitar until twenty years later, beginning a musical journey that
took him to the sides of some of the most respected and talented blues
musicians in the world. Inspired by Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, B.B.
King, Freddie King, Otis Rush, Big Walter Horton and The Fabulous
Thunderbirds, Ronnie quickly developed his six-string skills, playing
with an intensity that hasn’t cooled in more than 35 years of playing. RONNIE EARL AND THE BROADCASTERS
The Brandon Miller Band is an exploration into the blues spectrum. This
rock-powered trio are in the midst of creating and writing their own
music and tailoring select blues gems for substantial 2014 shows. We
invite you to experience a truly explosive celebration of music. Brandon Miller has been very popular in the Kansas City area now for
several years. This young guitarist plays with the finesse and skill of a
player twice his age. While being influenced by many other great blues
musicians, his interpretation and style of blues will hit you with a
sense of emotion . . . and he will mean every note of it. Let the tones
soak into your heart as you listen and enjoy his heavy blues-influenced
style."These
times they are a changin' and it is thanks to great rock artists like
Brandon Miller that the blues can live on. Soulful playing with clear
influence from artists including Joe Bonamassa, Jimmy Page, Stevie Ray
Vaughan and more give The Brandon Miller Band an unforgettable sound.
The ten-track "Slow Train" album (2014) is filled with great blues rock
tunes, and artwork like no other. Despite his age, Brandon Miller is
working with incredible artists Danielle Schnebelen of Trampled Under
Foot (one of the first bands to join AMS, and the 2008 IBC winners). If
you haven't heard Miller sing the blues, take a trip to Kansas City just
to hear him sing and play. You won't regret it! This is one album that
I'll be listening to for a VERY long time!" - AMS Entertainment BRANDON MILLER BAND
Markey Blue is "Blues to the Next Level" according to fans.- Reeves
Guitars. An amazing group of talent brought together in the studio and
on stage, creating there own unique sound of music. "its not like any
blues or R&B I've heard out there. It opens the doors to several
genera's. Peter Fleming- Airplay Direct. There first Cd is due out this
fall and is already creating a buzz through out the music
industry. The Markey Band's resume is and outstanding eclectic mix of
the who's who in both touring and recording. Markey has had the honor of
performing for three past presidents, and has opened for and performed
with the likes of Bobby Blue Bland, Candy Kayne, Taj Mahal, Steve
Cropper,Anson Funderburg, Guitar Shorty, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope,
Frankie Valley, Andy Williams, Michael Fienstein, Robert Goulet, Maureen
McGovern, Jack Jones, Micky Rooney, Phillis Diller, Sammy Kershaw,
Kevin Sharp, The Osmonds, The Smothers Brothers and many more. Markey
was recently awarded one of the top five song writers for Georgia's
Songwriter Showcase Award Show, and ESPN just featured one of Markey's
songs for one of their program specials. Markey has already seen success
on a couple different music charts as a songwriter, arranger, and
producer. She recently won Best Female Blues Vocalist for Nashville
2011. MARKEY BLUE
Take a blustery brass lineup, layer it over a rhythm section led by a
Fats Waller-style stride-piano virtuoso, and tie the whole thing
together with a magnetic, one-of-the-boys frontwoman whose voice recalls
another era, and you have the Hot Sardines, an NYC outfit (with a tap
dancer) that’s been called “consistently electrifying live”
(Popmatters). The Sardine sound – wartime Paris via New Orleans,
or the other way around – is steeped in the kind of music Louis
Armstrong, Django Reinhardt and Waller used to make: Straight-up,
foot-stomping jazz. Pianist-bandleader Evan “Bibs” Palazzo and
Paris-born singer Miz Elizabeth (who owe their collaboration to meeting
via Craigslist) describe their band as “born in the 1920s, but raised in
the ’00s,” reflecting a philosophy that hot jazz, dixieland and Tin Pan
Alley tunes are all pop music, not historical artifact to be handled
with kid gloves.The Sardines started 2013 headlining the
TCM Classic Cruise, kick off a bi-monthly residency at Joe’s Pub in
April, are slated to play the Great GoogaMooga Festival, the Spiegeltent
and the Blue Note Jazz festival, and continue to turn regular haunt The
Standard Hotel into a “saloon in the sky” (The Wall Street Journal).THE HOT SARDINES
Dave
grew up in New York City the son of a noted gifted composer arranger
producer Sammy “Forever” Fields. From the time Dave was a young child he
grew up in his father’s recording studio being exposed to the likes of
Sammy Kahn, Rupert Holmes and Stevie Wonder. Being raised by nanny who
was from Waycross Georgia,
an eclectic dash of southern culture was mixed into Dave’s persona. In a
strange twist of fate, his sister Launa a gifted musician in her own
right, lost her hearing by the time she was 14. Witnessing his sister’s
struggles in a hearing world profoundly affected Dave. “After seeing my
sister’s agony from being discriminated against for her condition I was
determined to never let that kind of injustice happen again in my
presence. I always felt that one of my missions in life was to be able
to communicate with people and to listen to them. It’s one of the
beautiful things about being a human being. We all want to connect with
one another”. Nowhere is that feeling more evident than in Dave’s music.
His gift of making his guitar talk combined with his uncanny way of
weaving many different styles of music together is an example of how we
as humans are a fabric of many different cultures and walks of life.
Dave, “growing up in NYC I was exposed to so many different foods,
music, cultures… It was truly a melting pot of humanity. I believe I am
the kind of artist that reflects what I see and what I’m exposed to. As a
musician I was put on this this earth to spread joy, love and life to
everyone. I try to do that what every note I play, with every lyric I
write and sing. If I do anything less than that I feel like I’m letting
the listener down”. Dave’s
musical path has been quite a journey, after attending Berklee College
of music, Dave was immersed in the NYC music scene as a first call
guitarist and multi instrumentalist. Dave, “ My Father made sure that I
could play a lot of different instruments and styles so I could make a
living. Unlike many blues musicians, I was raised to be a musical “hit
man”. I got to do sessions with many famous musicians and producers like
Tommy James & Ahmed Ertegen (to name a few) and even was on staff
of one of the top five jingle companies in NY LOOK MUSIC”. But Dave was
more than just a craftsman, his passion for music could not be satisfied
with just being a writer for hire. Dave, “ I made the decision in 2006
that I was going to make a stand in my life. That I was going to do what
was really important to me. Honestly…. I was too scared in my younger
days! LOL! So I set out on m new career path, being Dave Fields the
artist. Another thing was I had backed up and produced so many other
artists and one day it dawned on me, why am I doing this for everyone
else? Why can’t I do it FOR ME!”. DAVE FIELDS
Ms. Germain is an accomplished violinist that we will be hearing a lot about going forward. Check out her playful yet precise interpretations on her Latest Album “Little Dipper” . Sassy vocalist conjures up some fun on “How about you” ! Whats next ? This record rocks!! Nora did a fantastic job bringing violin back into the jazz scene. From her Gershwin rendition of “Someone to Watch Over Me,” to the original fiddle tune “Tommy,” this record is full of beautiful tunes! Oh and her voice on “How About You” is just lovely! Fantastic job, Nora! 23 year-old jazz violinist Nora Francesca Germain is the first ever violinist to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Jazz Studies from the renowned USC Thornton School of Music. An alumna of the prestigious Idyllwild Arts Academy High School in southern California, Germain was given the "Inspirational Jazz Student" Award at the age of 17 by her mentor and fellow collaborator Marshall Hawkins, former bassist for Miles Davis and Shirley Horn. She was also the first jazz violin graduate of Idyllwild Arts Academy. Her parents and grandmother were all strings players (two were violinists, one a cellist) in the Madison Symphony, her mother becoming a violin teacher and her father becoming a violin luthier. Introduced to the violin at age 2, Germain was raised in Madison, Wisconsin and studied classical violin. At age 10, she was already performing and improvising with bands and venturing outside of her classical training. NORA FRANCESCA GERMAIN
